Tattoo Tarot: Ink & Intuition
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Tattoo Tarot: Ink & Intuition Details
Tattoo Tarot is a beautifully illustrated, fully functional set of 78 tarot cards featuring vintage tattoo designs.This set of fully functional tarot cards is based on traditional tarot iconography as interpreted by MEGAMUNDEN, author of Tattoo Postcards and the best–selling Tattoo Colouring Book.The set contains the 78 cards of the tarot deck, luxuriously packaged in a gift box. A 28–page booklet explains how to interpret the cards and conduct your own readings, gaining a fascinating insight into what lies ahead and a fresh perspective on important themes and opportunities to watch for.The creation of the deck and accompanying booklet was guided by a professional tarot consultant and writer.Luxuriously packaged, these tarot cards make the perfect gift for the modern spiritualist, or any fan of the metaphysical, astrology or horoscopes."Looking for a fun new deck? Tattoo Tarot is beautifully illustrated and a new twist on the traditional deck" – Kindred Spirit"Great deck that mixes the Marseilles with the RWS. Superb card stock and fantastic tattoo artwork. Highly recommend and very popular with my clients." – Amazon reviewer"Just received my deck and it blew me away. Lovely big sturdy box with red inset inside and has the real wow factor. Lovely cards and intro to deck reading. Thank you so much, made my day." – Amazon reviewer Read more
Reviews
I'll admit I pre-ordered these in part because the price was so low (around $12). I also wanted another "edgier" deck option for querants to choose from and had recently purchased the 8 Coins Tattoo tarot, which many adore, but to me seemed less "tattoo parlour" and more "16 year old girl's random sketchbook with cutesy doodles and 12 or soEd Hardy throwback tributes." I am no tattoo afficianado but "Ink & Intuition" hit that nail square on the head that "8 Coins" only dinged.Among the Majors The Fool, The Magician, a fantastic lovers, The chariot (which actually has an element of speed and movement - a welcome change from the sense og static immobility many artists bafflingly attribute), Death and a tattoo covered Star.The devil is a near generic copy of the Marsielles original and feels like a missed opportunity. This is the only real "bad card" of the deck.The Court is the stabdiut here with a bit of edge that gives this very classic feeling dack a bit of modern sass. The Queen of Swords is a badass, arms raised holding her sword ready to attack at a moment's notice while the Queen of Cups is complete glam while showing off her back and arm tattoos. The King of Cups rocks a high face haircut to show off his skull tat and looks like Adam Levine's long lost twin brother. The Knave of Wands scowls while both the Knave of Cups and of Pentacles blur refreshingly blurring genderlines in their apoearance. Having a court that has a bit of personality and flair tha at extends beyond the Queen of Wands makes all the difference in a deck.This is a Marsielles deck with means the minors are "pips" and are depictions of the object of the suit and with the numeric equivalent of that object presented. The minors are not fully illustrated. For example the 6 of Wands does not depict a man on horseback in a victory parade being cheered on by the crowd, but rather just 6 wands arraanged in a visually aesthetic patteen. Look closely, though, and you'll see a green leaf victory laurel behind the wands symbolizing the aspects of recognition, appreciation and victory associated with this card. There are symbolic subtleties to the card interpretations on the minors much in the same vein as to what the Pagan Otherworlds deck did with its minors albeit not quite as clever.The card back is a fully reversible red line design on a white background that echoes your standard playing cards. The card stock is thick and of quality so hopefully the usual handwringing that accompanies the release of any mass market deck will not be be necessary by those to who this is a primary concern. The box the deck comes in makes doubles as a nicer quality 2 piece storage box which goild foil accents decorating the top and sides of the box and a built in recess with a lifting Ravenna allowing the cards to stay secured when not in use and be easily removed from the box by lifting the ribbon. I do hope that somebody over at Llewellyn publishing is gifted a copy of this deck so they can see the proper way to make a product box that doubles as a storage box as they never make their recesses deep enough to hold the entire deck making their boxes all but useless. Llewellyn may want to take note of the cardstock too just in case if they have forgotten would actual quality card stock looks like.There is a full color leaflet in lieu of a LWB that offers a instructions for use, a few basic spreads, brief explanations for both the Major and Minor arcana but strangely does not address each court as an individual but each rank as a whole while not addressing the suit.This omission of the court explanation and that the minors are essentially pips, despite their visual cues, as they still would benefit from some memorization and/or familiarity, make this a deck just slightly out of reach for beginners. This would make a wonderful second or third deck. And for those RWS enthusiasts who immediately turn their nose up and eschew any deck that uses pips, may I remind you your beloved The Wild Unknown is pretty much a pip deck.This is a fantastic deck that will make an interesting addition to any tarot collection.
