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Summary: A great set of the Fey, gorgeous images, insightful sage advice....a grand oracle for the soul.
Comment: I have to say I very much enjoy and am enchanted with this set!
I have over 200 Tarot and Oracle decks and this one is a top fave. The art is so rich and colourful. Just looking at it gives one a sense of peace and calm. The cards are failrly large and the printing quality is wonderful, the colours are vivid, deep, rich and very evocative. I adore the backs! The quality of the cardstock could have been better though, but I've certainly seen worse cardstock in oracles. It's not THAT bad. The cards will hold up fine as long as you treat your deck with respect and love (as you should treat them anyways) and not be rough and careless with them.
The book I was very plesantly surprised with. I wasn't sure what to expect, but Nancy Brown has done a fantastic job imo. Each image is married wonderfully to the text in the book. She gifts you with some great wisdom, advice, humor and things to meditate and contemplate on everyday. I really like the 'prayer' at the bottom of each card description. Some card meanings are longer and more detailed than others, but they are all very evocative and full of sage advice. The book itself is very pretty, a smaller size hardback, much easier to tote around.
I use this deck almost daily and I have so many favourite cards! The Shaman, Night Light, Birth of Magic, Discovery, Green Faery, The Oldest Fairy, Fey (top fave!), Moon Dragon, The Doormouse, Something Wild, Moon Secrets, The Source of Magic, Believe, Dandelion, Autumn and Lighting the Way! I draw a card or cards for inspiration, serenity and some wise thoughts throughout my day. They've been a warm and enchanting friend for some time.
These cards and book doesn't just feel like any old oracle, they feel very special and bonded to me. Alive. They talk right back to me!
The packaging IS very gorgeous as others have stated. Stunning really. I tend to toss boring or so-so deck boxes, but this one is a definate keeper. I never put the deck and book back in it though, these cards are never far from me, usually in my bag : ).
If you love faery and the fey, you will LOVE this set, no doubt about it. This set isn't meant as a divination or fortune-telling deck. It's inspirational and a deck that's a 'friend' to you when your down, just stuck or very happy! I believe the Fey are truly alive in these cards and that energy and light can't help but escape into your life and heart. Do get them, they'll add magic and wonder to the mundane.
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Summary: Nice, but not Tarot
Comment: Like the other reviewers said, this is not a Tarot deck.
But, as Oracle Cards, they are very nice. The packaging is beautiful and the book that comes with it is also nice (it's written by Amy Brown's mom, who is a specialist in stuff like oracles, etc). The artwork is beautiful and always coresponds to the theme of the card. Also, the cards give accurate readings, though I would not reccommend this deck for beginners (if you are a beginner, I would recommend Doreen Virtue's Healing With the Fairies Oracle Cards).
My only gripe about this deck is that the cards are horribly thin and for the price paid for this deck, I would have hoped for significantly better card stock used for the cards. This is also the reason why I don't use these cards too often, I am afraid to damage these cards that would to easily, especially considering how expensive they were. This is also the reason why these get four stars instead of five. Had the cards been of better quality, there would be five stars listed next to my name.
However, the artwork is beautiful, so any fan of Amy Brown or of fairies will appreciate this deck as it combines both the light and dark, playfulness and seriousness of fairies.
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Summary: This is NOT a TAROT deck!!
Comment: This "deck" needs to be categorized under something else besides "Tarot".
I admit I'm a purist, and I'm truly sick of seeing Tarot continuously miscategorized, esp. under "New Age" which usually equals faeries, crystals etc..
Why is it that all "New Agey" artwork, because they are in the form of cards and call themselves oracle/meditative, are lumped in with Tarot?
This is wrong!!
Those who are in charge of categorizing these items please WAKE UP, Tarot is a genre all its own and these half-baked "oracle" cards are nothing close to what a true Tarot deck is, which is a highly structured deck of 78 cards divided into Major Arcana, Minor Arcana and Court cards, with an ancient history bathed in Kabbalistic symbolism and Hermeticism.
I suggest "Faery Art" as the genre for this deck of art cards - for this is absolutley NOT a Tarot deck.
Despite my criticism dearest Amy Brown is a great Faery artist and I respect her work and the level she's taken it in this genre. If you want Faery's with a cutting edge to trip out on then get this deck!
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Summary: Beautiful packaging, but...
Comment: I love Amy Brown's work and was excited about the arrival of my order. The packaging is absolutely beautiful. I just wish she would have put as much quality into the book and cards as she did the packaging. To me, the cards are too thin and flimsy. The book is ok, but not up to the standards of the price I paid for this set. Too bad there's not some use for the box it came in. To me, as beautiful as the box it came in is, it was a waste of my money. I don't need a fancy box to store the cards in. I'd rather the cards been of a better quality card paper.
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Summary: I thought this was a Tarot deck!
Comment: I have been around Tarot decks my whole life I started reading them when I was 9. My grandfather read them, my aunts and uncles read them and so does my mom and my siblings, having said that, at best, this is more like an aid to meditation....but if you want to meditate, why don't you try the mantras? This is not your usual "tarot" deck...no major/minor arcana whatsoever. Pretty box, though. Sorry, you cannot call this a Tarot deck..This is a meditation book with Nancy daughter's drawings. Please do not buy this if you are serious about tarot decks...now if you want pretty postcards, and an introduction (very basic) to a self help book then, this is for you....other wise save your money. If you want to learn to read tarot cards start with the Aquarian Tarot deck...if you want something different go with Morgan's Tarot, or the Xultun for meditation go with the Tarot of the Spirit.
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