About this item
- A stunning innovation in the world of Tarot, the Transparent Tarot uses clear sheets with symbolic elements that can be
- combined in layers, to make combined pictures and meanings. The full deck of 78 transparent cards is now out from
- Schiffer Books.
Specifications
Name
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Transparent Tarot
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Creators
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Emily Carding
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Publisher
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Schiffer Books 2008
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Deck Type
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Tarot Deck
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Cards
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78
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Major Arcana
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22
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Minor Arcana
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56
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Deck Tradition
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Unique
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Minor Arcana Style
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Unique Scenes With Suit Symbols
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Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles
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Court Cards
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Page, Knight, Queen, King
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Major Titles
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The Fool
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is 0
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Strength
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is 8
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Justice
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is 11
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Card Size
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4.53 x 4.96 in. = 11.50cm x 12.60cm
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Card Language
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English
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Card Back
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N/A
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Back Design
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Transparent cards so they don't have a back design.
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Companion Material
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A considerable, accessible soft-cover book.
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Reviews
online before purchasing it. I admit it, I was resistant
to this new concept! Naturally suspicious (yes I’m a
Scorpio and today is my birthday) by nature of anything
that feels “trendy”, or “contrived”. But I do love
innovation and this deck proved to be just that. Innovative,
imaginative and now holds a permanent position at my reading
table.
When it first arrived, it took me about a week
to open it. That’s how resistant I was! I pulled
out the cards and thought, “but there is only one
aspect of a card on each one of transparencies!” I am
definitely not going to like this deck and I felt validated
in my hesitation to purchase it in the first place. I
put the cards aside and opened Emily’s accompanying
book, which is a good size I might say.
That was the
trigger to turn my thinking around. Emily is an excellent
writer and what she has to say is well worth reading.
She knows the Tarot! She met the mustard so to speak
in her knowledge of the Tarot classics (which I’m
also rather fussy about) and distilled all that she
understood about the Tarot to one central image. But she
doesn’t just stop there! Throughout this book she gives
many, many examples of readings done with this deck and
I delighted in reading every one of them. By page
56 (the book is a hefty 280 pages) I couldn’t wait to
work with this deck. Reading with this deck really is
as Emily states, “An evolutionary shift in tarot
reading”. You don’t lay out the cards one by one, rather
you layer them one atop the other to build a card
which represents final outcome.
Each card has one
single image on the transparency but Emily has placed
these images in different positions on the deck to
facilitate this layering affect. Sometimes the central
symbols fall one atop the other which creates a whole new
symbol, but often the symbols at different positions on
the card will create a whole new scene. It’s
addictive!
When reading for clients I always save these cards for
the end of the session, when a client will often ask,
“Do you have any last thoughts Kathleen? Any last
words of wisdom before I go?” That’s when I pull out
the Transparent Tarot and say, “Let’s see what the
Tarot’s parting comment is!” Inevitably it’s perfect.
One woman asked about whether I thought she would need
an operation due to a dropped uterus and the first
card up was the “Hanged One” depicting a chrysalis
suspended from a branch. My client burst out laughing when
she saw the image! “Oh my God!”, she gasped, “Is that
for REAL?!” We giggled together and I said, “Yes I do
think an operation will be in order. It stands now
suspended but being in a chrysalis stage it’s very likely to
go through a change that will make it uncomfortable
indeed!
If you have not purchased a copy of this deck I
highly recommend you do so. It was published in 2008 so
there may not be many left. It’s fun, informative and a
great learning tool. I’ve recommended it highly to new
and virtuoso tarotists alike.
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