About this item
- Also known as Le Tarot Ambre
Specifications
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Name
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Amber Tarot
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Alternate Names
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Le Tarot Ambre
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Creators
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Florence Magnin
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Publisher
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Descartes (France)
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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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Reviews
uld not have been surprised, as being a French tarot deck, it does follow the Marseilles tradition of plain pip cards. (Decorated minors are attributed to be an invention of Pamela Colman-Smith, when she created the art for the Rider-Waite Tarot in the early twentieth century, as she was the first to include scenes on the 56 'unimportant' cards.) But I'm just not a fan of Marseilles-type decks. Though the contrast between the everyday details of life and the more spiritual major arcana is marked, I like illustrations on all the cards. I feel that the deck might as well only have 42 cards in it, for all the good the numbered pip cards do for visual stimulation. I realise some people find them evocative of memorised meanings, but they don't do it for me.
On the good side, le Tarot Ambre does come with a little white book, but it is in French. Or in this case, it is a medium white book. A glossy, black and white, 128 page book explains in French how to use the cards. It offers spreads as well as card meaning
s. Each card is pictured with a description: a paragraph and keywords for the major arcana, just keywords for the minor arcana. Reversed meanings are given throughout. Both book and cards are packaged in a moulded plastic case, slightly wider than a video case. The cards themselves are high quality, printed on flexible, thin cardstock with no burrs on the edges.
I adore the illustrated artwork in the Amber Tarot. I might see if I can get used to the unadorned minors.
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