Lenah
One of the very best
I love the Fantastical Creatures Tarot. After the last 15 years of steady Tarot reading, as well as some very sporadic reading going back as far as 1972, I truly believe that this deck is one of the best. It presents "snapshots" into the lives and Being-ness (sounds so New Agey, ack!!) of Creatures that actually do exist. The pictures painted are of actual, presently-existing Creatures that are willing to do certain things, according to their natures, for people. If you get nothing else from this deck, please get it that these creatures are real--albeit not all of them are in the "mundane" or "earth" plane. So when we're learning the deck, we are developing relationships and interrelationships among these living beings.
It is true that some of the cards look a little scary, but the little pamphlet that comes with the deck does clearly point out that the weird, really bizarre looking gargoyle type faces throughout the deck are actually *protections.* They are like the protector spirits of some cultures, which can be absolutely horrifying looking, but they look scary in order to frighten off negative spirits & energies.So they are actually quite positive beings. The gargoyle faces work both as protections for the reader and for the characters within the deck itself. And if I may repeat my original point just once, the deck's paintings are of genuine, actual, real Being energies. That is why the pamphlet suggests ways of *using* the cards in genuine, actual, and real ways to progress! A picture on a card can't do anything, but a card whose picture is a portal, a connection, to the actual energy of that being, well, there aren't many cards that do that these days.It is unique.
I just love this deck!
~~ Angelina H.
I love the Fantastical Creatures Tarot. After the last 15 years of steady Tarot reading, as well as some very sporadic reading going back as far as 1972, I truly believe that this deck is one of the best. It presents "snapshots" into the lives and Being-ness (sounds so New Agey, ack!!) of Creatures that actually do exist. The pictures painted are of actual, presently-existing Creatures that are willing to do certain things, according to their natures, for people. If you get nothing else from this deck, please get it that these creatures are real--albeit not all of them are in the "mundane" or "earth" plane. So when we're learning the deck, we are developing relationships and interrelationships among these living beings.
It is true that some of the cards look a little scary, but the little pamphlet that comes with the deck does clearly point out that the weird, really bizarre looking gargoyle type faces throughout the deck are actually *protections.* They are like the protector spirits of some cultures, which can be absolutely horrifying looking, but they look scary in order to frighten off negative spirits & energies.So they are actually quite positive beings. The gargoyle faces work both as protections for the reader and for the characters within the deck itself. And if I may repeat my original point just once, the deck's paintings are of genuine, actual, real Being energies. That is why the pamphlet suggests ways of *using* the cards in genuine, actual, and real ways to progress! A picture on a card can't do anything, but a card whose picture is a portal, a connection, to the actual energy of that being, well, there aren't many cards that do that these days.It is unique.
I just love this deck!
~~ Angelina H.
] Tarot in which my post was plagarized. Most of it was reworded, but the ideas were mine. I will not post on these forums again, not if people are stealing someone else's idea like that. What a dang bummer! 