About this item
- The Spirit Tarot has non-traditional major arcana with gentle, soft paintings. The minor arcana have photographs of
- nature and the outdoors - storms, sunsets, forests - with small magical and spiritual characters added. Surrounded by
- large white borders and titles in four languages.
Specifications
Name
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Spirit Tarot
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Creators
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Kris Dorea
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Publisher
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AGM Müller 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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Card Size
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2.87 x 4.92 in. = 7.30cm x 12.50cm
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Card Language
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Spanish, German, French, English
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Card Back
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Non-reversible
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Reviews
the Polish artist Joanna Iwanska, the Austrian healer
Helmut Weyrer and the German painter of angels Sabine
Thiel – coordinated and supervised by the designer Kris
Dorea. Combination of two artistic styles – pictures in
the Major Arcana and photo collages in the Minor
Arcana - makes this deck unusual as the parts of the deck
differ very much. The Major Arcana show the states of
consciousness, important phases and roles in life while the Minor
Arcana represent moods, emotions and feelings, sometimes
situations.
This deck is one of the few where I like Minor Arcana
more than the Majors. While titles of suits and the
court cards follow the RWS tradition, the Wands
correspond to air and the Swords correspond to fire. The
Swords show sunsets and thunderstorms while the Wands
show beautiful forests and clearings lit by the sun.
What attracts me most that by reviewing the Minor
Arcana you instantly “jump into” the picture and feel the
dampness, warmth, uneasiness or tranquility, you become one
with the landscape in the card. The nature, time of the
day and surroundings remind you of the specific events
in your life when you felt exactly like that and that
could be a clue to the meaning of the card.
The cards
are made of the glossy sturdy cardboard fit for the
active use. Pictures are surrounded by the white borders
with the title of the card in four languages (English,
German, French and Spanish). The card backs depict the
fragment from Four of Wands and are non-reversible. The
deck is accompanied by the LWB which I found of little
use except key phrases about Major Arcana and the
general info about the deck. The box for the deck is not
flimsy and has a Chariot picture on it. My deck is
printed in Belgium in 2007 by AGMuller Urania.
In my
opinion, this deck represents the uncommon approach to the
spiritual issues where the cards can be read intuitively
without remembering names and “responsibilities” of
angels, studying life of fairy folk, etc. They speak to
you as they are even if you are a novice in Tarot.
However, if you do not use the reversed positions, the deck
may lack negative meanings; it mostly reflects the
positive side of life. The artwork seems uneven – beautiful
cards like Death card or two of Cups may be followed by
hollow ones like Page of Pentacles. The woman’s figure
from the Judgment card can be seen again in several
Minors which is rather weird. Still, the deck is good as
a collector item, suitable to read for inspiration
and just for yourself. It does not upset the reader,
but helps to find wonders in each moment of life!
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