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Robin Wood Tarot
The images on the Robin Wood Tarot Cards are
based on the Rider-Waite deck. Artist and deck designer Robin
Wood worked on these cards for nearly a decade. Her goal was
to create a deck that presented traditional tarot symbolism in
a more current and natural way. The drawings are vivid,
colourful and expressive. The people in the deck wear either
no clothes, robes or other medieval-style dress.
The Robin Wood Tarot deck is known for its
attention to the minor arcana cards. Each one is given its own
unique energy and flavour. The instruction booklet by Wood and
Michael Short gives upright and reversed meanings for all the
cards and three different spreads.
Customer Reviews
Difficult Deck
I bought this deck as I had seen a few reviews and at first I thought
it was lovely and indeed some of the cards are beautiful. The court
cards are especially sumptuous. I also adore the take on the 6 swords
with the spirit presence guiding.
I call it my American deck because all the characters are so
unmistakably well scrubbed American. I dislike the strength card due to
the arch expression of the woman's face. The five of swords with that
childish grin looks incongruous and hard to take seriously, ditto the
Charioteer. The wheel of fortune reminds me of a shampoo ad. Also I
find the nudity is unnecessarily graphic especially on the Judgement
card. (I am not a prude, I own the Decameron deck!!) Only I like to be
able to use my decks (decameron aside) without worry of offending or
amusing others who I read for.
There is a lot of energy in this deck, which if you are ok with the
style would be good, but personally I find it distracting.
A beautiful deck
This is a beautiful deck, ideal for both beginners and seasoned
readers. Highly recommended!
Beautifully creative deck!
I have bought many oracle decks in the past, always finding them
unsatisfactory with their "types" of readings in comparison to tarot.
Because of this, I only
own one tarot deck (Celtic themed) and thought I would never buy
another since I was so happy with how easy it was to use and how
accurate it is. Until I saw this Robin Wood tarot cards deck.
It immediately
interested me with its beautifully graphic and imaginative artwork.
Once it arrived in the post, I found it to be buzzing with life through
its imagery.
I have been using this
Robin Wood tarot cards deck almost every day and learning new things all the time. Each card
has just the right amount of dreamlike imagery to inspire something in
your own mind to come up with the answers in a reading.
One of my overall
favourite cards is Death. Funnily enough it is one of the most
beautiful representations of the card I've seen in my 5 years as a
reader. No skeletons or dead people present at all : )
A highly commendable
deck!
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