Rohrig Tarot - tarot decks

Price: US $16.60

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• The Rohrig Tarot is a sexy, glossy Tarot deck that has been thoroughly modernised - the Chariot shows a Formula One
• motor racing car - and overall the artwork is beautifully done and finely detailed. There are two versions of the deck: the
• US edition and an earlier German edition with uncovered nudity.

When I view a Tarot deck for purchase, it's usually over the internet - but there's nothing like holding it in your hands for the first time that rings the bell.

Cutting to the noodle, as a collector and user of Tarot what happens for me is a sort of vibration letting me know if we have a psychic connection or not. I quickly read the introduction schmatter on the back of the deck's shell and then forget it. Next, letting my hands reach out and do the dive into the water of the deck by retrieving the cards from their sleepy little place; saying with gusto and warmth "hello babies", I toss them out onto my desk. After gathering the cards, I pay extra close attention to those that have separated themselves or flipped upright and over others. The awakening to the deck begins, as it did with the Rohrig Tarot. Oh, if you are a traditionalist, you can light a candle, any color will do. They don't mind.

For four months I've used Carl's deck exclusively for one telephone client. This client never viewed the cards until the end of our path work months later. The readings unfolded to be more like a Jungian journey. At first I couldn't understand why we were taking a deep subconscious trip to far away Jupiter, instead of nailing down some much needed urgent information. I was stumped. But I remembered how electric the cards had been to me when we first met each other and I decided not to give up on them. The artwork was vibrant, sophisticated and tasteful, only a little bit air brushed-risqué, but the picture stories really fit my Silicon Valley entrepreneur-dot com'er!

Midway through the four months - I got it! Finally. These cards never let me down, spoke to me in many dream sequences, and always told the truth with no BS. That's the essence of this deck, which was published in 1995 by Bluestar Communications, Belgium. The artist-Taroist Carl W. Rohrig, loves women, loves the world, hates cheapness of any kind, sees the many levels of humanity as well as the many paths to God-Love. My client was thrilled with the work we accomplished and at the end of the journey I had planned to mail this deck to him so he could also hold and experience the pictures, stories, and vibrations for himself.

But before I could find another deck, I pointed him to a couple of internet sites with pictures. Gee whiz, I don't know why I was surprised to learn how stunned and shocked he was when he saw the pictures for the first time. He expected a medieval dressed bunch of Knights and Queens, however his first visual introduction was the Chariot. A race car driver in some sort of Indy 500 hotty car. I'm still laughing about this…..once he got over the shock and I explained the cards to him, he settled down and got back into it. Here's my point ­ it's the holding of the cards and these "hold" wonderfully. Though they seem a little strange at first from viewing on the internet ­ they will fall in love with you and you them, if it's right.

This artist - Tarotist Carl W. Rohrig - is a magnificent gift to the Tarot community and his inspiration comes from some extraordinary place outside of the mundane parts of our world today. This deck integrates and delightfully honors us with its artful telling of today's human story. He loves women, there's no doubt, so much so that he elected to let the Kings take a vacation and replaced them with non-competing court cards. His Queens are absolutely beautiful, charming when they need to be, hard hitting when they should be and very loving when necessary to be. Some of the minor arcana come right out of the Silicon Valley Dot Com bust and transcend to the new stock market reality of today.

His costuming of these individuals L'Archetype is creative genius. I could divide this deck into three stacks; Spectacular Medieval influenced costuming with modern-day make up or hairdo's, Dali-inspired implications of doom and gloom, Business-suited lackey's trapped in the corporate ick. No woman or man, straight or gay would be offended by the limited amount of nudity, which by the way demeans no one. This deck tells the whole story, sticks to the fundamentals of the Tarot greats and honors us all.