My favourite deck ever!! I always, always, always interpreted the beast in the Strength card as my dark, dangerous, vicious, malicious, darkest shadow that jumps out ferociously when least expected and which has caused me hell more times than I'd like to remember. This Strength card is absolutely fabulous, to me. And most important. It's that beast that jumps out of the lamb, to the detriment of the lamb, of course. Perfection. And a perfection of a deck. I adore it.
Strength is No. 11 and Justice is 8 in the Tarot de Marseille, they changed it in the Rider-Waite tarot due to astrological reasons (they associated Strength with Leo and Justice with Libra) and all decks in the English-speaking world are based on the RWT. For Europeans, Strength as 11 seems more natural.
I was not sure about this deck (the price and a few cards are bland) but, after watching this video and seeing the strength and death cards I will be purchasing this deck. Wow! I love decks that has cards in it that makes us question our motives and intentions. Cards that makes us uncomfortable with reality. I love the artwork (majority of the cards) and powerful minimal imagery. For readers it makes us step into a neutral space where we can dive deeper into the meaning of our experiences and the experiences of others. I get very powerful accurate readings from controversial decks. There is a raw and transformative energy.
I really liked the death card, it was unique in that the creature was passing through the curtain of normal it's perception into another realm under death's watchful eye. I found it very appropriate.
I love the images. The strength card doesn’t trigger me. I don’t know any people who can pet a lion let alone ride one so I take it as fantastical imagery. Am I missing something? Thanks for the review!!
I agree, we better toughen up if that's offensive. A lion would tear her to shreds anyway if she dared to ride it lol. We see people with 10 knives in their back in plenty of images. It's art.
I have this deck and honestly... It’s one of my favorite decks. The when ever I read with this deck I feel like cold rain is touching my touching my skin. I feel drawn in to a lot of the art work and I feel like Experiencing the images in the card in real life. I was luck to have a half off discount to get the deck so in that respect i was lucky.
I got a good deal, too. Its cool, calm and collected, very balanced, but tells it straight. One woman said that she'd use it in winter. I'd use it in the hot ,heavy summer, to cool things off.
I had to look it up too :') Some people see it as a white woman smiling unsettlingly over the painted face of a person of colour. The artist tried to portray a statue of a lion with a painted face. I do think the smile is creepy, but I see a lion so 🤷♂️
I have this deck and it's my favorite. I don't even have to read the interpretations, the images simply talk to me, like I'm channeling the messages when I look at them. And the cards are communicating to eachother effortlessly, creating stories and clarifying eachother. I love the imagery, it just talks the language of my soul. It feels though like a masculine energy deck. I usually combine it with The Muse Tarot deck and the Work Your Light Oracle. They work wonderfully together. I find it amazing how the cards jumping out from the oracle deck are always doubling the Fountain cards. For instance I got the ten of swords from The Fountain and then right next to it to clarify it The Crumbling card from the Work Your Light oracle, both asking what am I holding on to, what must I release. Or Justice card next to Awakening oracle card having basically the same core message. They seem to complement eachother perfectly. I'm a beginner and started doing readings with this deck, which was very easy from the start. All my readings were spot on every single time. :)
Also, I wanted to say that I love your videos and I'm grateful to you! ❤️ Thanks to your flip through videos I just ordered 3 new oracle decks today that I discovered thanks to you 🙌
I own the deck and this is for a reader who uses there intuition along with leveraging the guide book. It is not always about the image but the card itself: not my type of art but very beautiful deck. Falling in love with it.
The strength card really makes me feel like she is embracing her inner spirit and when I see her I see a reiki healer. She is within the light in the card and she is smiling.
I don't hate it. I think the images are beautiful. But I'm not sure if I could read with it. And the price is kind of high for me for one that Amazon sells.
Awesome review! This really helped. I absolutely loved this deck when I saw it in some tarot reading videos, but after flipping through the cards with you I cant help but feel like it stirs a strange split feeling in me. Half the card artworks are some the most beautiful and powerful thing ive ever seen, and then the other half are bland and ...really miss the mark. Like I can see the image of what those cards COULD have been, but it isn't... Imagine a woman sitting with a huge, powerful lion towering over her in the strength card? Imagine a twisted, dark horned demon figure in the devil card? The death card is the card of SCORPIO of all things, imagine a beautiful bright phoenix rising from the ashes! There is so much they could have done with it. The face on the High Priestess card creeps me out too. It should have been a magical, long haired mystic woman with such a beautiful, intuitive, ethereal feeling. Its like the art style is PERFECT for these things but they completely missed the potential. So sad. The Major Arcana in particular seriously let me down. Yet some of the other cards (like some of the swords) are SO incredibly beautiful and hit that potential perfectly. I'm in two minds on it, its definitely overpriced but I think I will still buy it since its somehow so interesting and gives me such a unique feeling at the same time. Maybe the way it triggers my envisioning of the card artwork potential in my head causes me get the right energy from them anyway. We'll see I guess lol! Thanks for the vid :)
I'm glad it helped! I am still torn about it. It is a powerful deck, but like im still feeling a certain type of way about it. I keep having to force myself to work with it, maybe it will grow on me. But i agree with you completely.
So are the cards standard size??? Mine will be here Sunday & they looked so much bigger online! Mine is also purple on top not white so I’m interested to see what I get 😩 I only paid $25 for them though & yes sold by the creator! Lol I had to learn the hard way… I want a nice big deck! But after buying a ton… I still haven’t found the “perfect deck” I’d like an original print, in plastic like the CS 2nd generation but can’t find them anywhere… The quest continues for the “perfect deck” 😂 I love all my decks but idk I think there has to be a “perfect” deck out there!!!
I purchased a few decks of cards that just arrived a few minutes ago and this was one of the decks I wanted to purchase but wasn't sure so I didn't get it. As far as the artwork goes, it's gorgeous but while I didn't necessarily have a jarring reaction to the Strength card I did have a reaction to the death card. Not because it's death but because the artwork was almost unforgiving in meaning. Death doesn't mean literal death all the time, it can be the end of something but also the beginning of something. Most of the death cards I've had could be depicted many ways just off imagery but this one...a tad darker than needed. A literal depiction is what the art work suggests, if this makes sense.
Yes yes yes. That death card gave me a gut reaction too. I've been playing around with the deck and I feel like it is a more "serious" feeling deck. I'm still going to try to give it a chance, but yeah, how it makes you feel is important. What other decks did you purchase, if you dont mind me asking?
I felt at first that the Death card seemed wrong, but it seemed very familiar too. I used to live right next to a forest... it looks like a deer through night vision! After a bit of pondering I understand the art on this card now, but at first glance it is a bit sort of 😱
Awesome review and i can see why so many people don’t like this deck the cards and art makes me very uneasy and just all around negatively usually i am a huge fan of art like this but just watching this video i just don’t get great feelings when i look at it. i can see how people like this deck personally i just dont like it Also the strength card is really unsettling Also 40$ would need much better quality cardstock
I had this deck on my list to buy for awhile. But it has now been removed from my list. That Strength card, to me, is gross and insensitive. Why would the the illustrator draw that? Why was it approved? I wish we knew what was going through their mind. In regards to the death card, I find they took it too literal. Like a card like that would definitely scare a client if you used this deck with them and just hearing death is already scary enough, not sure why they needed to make the imagery scary also. This deck was very disappointing to me.
Agreed. The deck is pretty serious in my opinion. It can also be quite literal. The Strength card still rubs me the wrong way hard so I am not sure how much use this deck will be getting 🤷♀️
I’ve been in the same boat about this deck - I’ve been hearing many people liking or disliking this deck. I was actually looking at this deck and The Wild Unknown Tarot when I was purchasing my first tarot deck (obviously I went with TWU). I recently gave my TWU a new home as I no longer connected to it. After this walkthrough, I’m glad I went with TWU even though I no longer have it in my collection. Like you said, the artwork in this deck is neat. A little too neat for me. Thanks for doing this walkthrough. I’m hoping the deck will give you positive readings 💚
It's interesting how decks connect differently with people. I do love my Wild Unknown deck though, it's just so easy to work with. This deck just seems too serious most of the time.
I really love how you cover all the aspects! I am a complete beginner, like I don’t know ANYTHING and I really need a bit of guidance so if it’s not an inconvenience could we have a chat on Instagram? Or wherever else you prefer? 🙏
I would suggest against it. I’m a beginner myself but I have the RW deck and the art of these deck doesn’t match at all to the original. It confuses me tbh
I just got this deck a few days ago haha. No joke, late night on Amazon and the price dropped to 8 dollars for about an hour or so, I bought it instantly and took a screenshot of it in case they changed it. I am assuming it was some kind of malfunction but it was 9 dollars all together and not the knock off. I always check my wish list to see if prices drop a little bit. Yea, unfortunately, I would be pretty upset if I got this for the MSRP because the cardstock is not the greatest. I thought it would be better quality, it's like they put the money in the nice box. The deck had an odd energy about it at first, I set it in my happy tarot place (lol) and it seemed better. I got some good readings out of it. I actually like some of the descriptions in the guidebook. Dang I guess I wasn't very observant over the strength card, I always just saw a lion, had to go straight to see what the book says. It just says she's caressing a lion that represents her savage side that she isn't trying to get rid of but to harness it for her benefit, so, hmmm idk.
That's exactly why I bought it- the sale. But yeah full price probably went to the packaging but 🤷♀️. But yay you got a deal! Gotta love that! And yes, some of the descriptions are really good in the book.
Watching this deck I have an impression like 3 persons have made it. Some cards are too dark, some are blured, some are in summer colours. In my opinion, 25% of the cards are nice and unigue, the rest nothing special. $40 is too high for this.
My favourite deck ever!! I always, always, always interpreted the beast in the Strength card as my dark, dangerous, vicious, malicious, darkest shadow that jumps out ferociously when least expected and which has caused me hell more times than I'd like to remember. This Strength card is absolutely fabulous, to me. And most important. It's that beast that jumps out of the lamb, to the detriment of the lamb, of course. Perfection. And a perfection of a deck. I adore it.
Thats awesomd
Strength is No. 11 and Justice is 8 in the Tarot de Marseille, they changed it in the Rider-Waite tarot due to astrological reasons (they associated Strength with Leo and Justice with Libra) and all decks in the English-speaking world are based on the RWT. For Europeans, Strength as 11 seems more natural.
I was not sure about this deck (the price and a few cards are bland) but, after watching this video and seeing the strength and death cards I will be purchasing this deck. Wow! I love decks that has cards in it that makes us question our motives and intentions. Cards that makes us uncomfortable with reality. I love the artwork (majority of the cards) and powerful minimal imagery. For readers it makes us step into a neutral space where we can dive deeper into the meaning of our experiences and the experiences of others. I get very powerful accurate readings from controversial decks. There is a raw and transformative energy.
I really liked the death card, it was unique in that the creature was passing through the curtain of normal it's perception into another realm under death's watchful eye. I found it very appropriate.
I love the images. The strength card doesn’t trigger me. I don’t know any people who can pet a lion let alone ride one so I take it as fantastical imagery. Am I missing something? Thanks for the review!!
I agree, we better toughen up if that's offensive. A lion would tear her to shreds anyway if she dared to ride it lol. We see people with 10 knives in their back in plenty of images. It's art.
Thank you! I couldn’t agree more!
I have this deck and honestly... It’s one of my favorite decks. The when ever I read with this deck I feel like cold rain is touching my touching my skin. I feel drawn in to a lot of the art work and I feel like Experiencing the images in the card in real life. I was luck to have a half off discount to get the deck so in that respect i was lucky.
I'm glad it works for you! That's awesome! I do like it for more serious readings.
I got a good deal, too. Its cool, calm and collected, very balanced, but tells it straight.
One woman said that she'd use it in winter.
I'd use it in the hot ,heavy summer, to cool things off.
Hi! Can someone tell me why people don't like the strength card? it looks fine to me?
I had to look it up too :') Some people see it as a white woman smiling unsettlingly over the painted face of a person of colour. The artist tried to portray a statue of a lion with a painted face. I do think the smile is creepy, but I see a lion so 🤷♂️
All I see is a badly drawn lion 🦁
I love the Queen of Cups card, my favorite. Judgement and the Moon is soo cool and perfectly portrayed as well.
I think the strength card is empowering the look she gives is that she can conquer anything and has the strength to do it im a Leo 😉I ordered it today
Justice is in the original position. Golden Dawn switched them.
That deck is a major deck.. very beautiful.. and the death card in my opinion is in that level of beauty.. i like it a lot, 90% i think..
I have this deck and it's my favorite. I don't even have to read the interpretations, the images simply talk to me, like I'm channeling the messages when I look at them. And the cards are communicating to eachother effortlessly, creating stories and clarifying eachother. I love the imagery, it just talks the language of my soul. It feels though like a masculine energy deck. I usually combine it with The Muse Tarot deck and the Work Your Light Oracle. They work wonderfully together. I find it amazing how the cards jumping out from the oracle deck are always doubling the Fountain cards. For instance I got the ten of swords from The Fountain and then right next to it to clarify it The Crumbling card from the Work Your Light oracle, both asking what am I holding on to, what must I release. Or Justice card next to Awakening oracle card having basically the same core message. They seem to complement eachother perfectly. I'm a beginner and started doing readings with this deck, which was very easy from the start. All my readings were spot on every single time. :)
Also, I wanted to say that I love your videos and I'm grateful to you! ❤️ Thanks to your flip through videos I just ordered 3 new oracle decks today that I discovered thanks to you 🙌
I own the deck and this is for a reader who uses there intuition along with leveraging the guide book. It is not always about the image but the card itself: not my type of art but very beautiful deck. Falling in love with it.
And it shuffle beautifully
The strength card really makes me feel like she is embracing her inner spirit and when I see her I see a reiki healer. She is within the light in the card and she is smiling.
I don't hate it. I think the images are beautiful. But I'm not sure if I could read with it. And the price is kind of high for me for one that Amazon sells.
Awesome review! This really helped. I absolutely loved this deck when I saw it in some tarot reading videos, but after flipping through the cards with you I cant help but feel like it stirs a strange split feeling in me. Half the card artworks are some the most beautiful and powerful thing ive ever seen, and then the other half are bland and ...really miss the mark. Like I can see the image of what those cards COULD have been, but it isn't... Imagine a woman sitting with a huge, powerful lion towering over her in the strength card? Imagine a twisted, dark horned demon figure in the devil card? The death card is the card of SCORPIO of all things, imagine a beautiful bright phoenix rising from the ashes! There is so much they could have done with it. The face on the High Priestess card creeps me out too. It should have been a magical, long haired mystic woman with such a beautiful, intuitive, ethereal feeling. Its like the art style is PERFECT for these things but they completely missed the potential. So sad. The Major Arcana in particular seriously let me down. Yet some of the other cards (like some of the swords) are SO incredibly beautiful and hit that potential perfectly. I'm in two minds on it, its definitely overpriced but I think I will still buy it since its somehow so interesting and gives me such a unique feeling at the same time. Maybe the way it triggers my envisioning of the card artwork potential in my head causes me get the right energy from them anyway. We'll see I guess lol!
Thanks for the vid :)
I'm glad it helped! I am still torn about it. It is a powerful deck, but like im still feeling a certain type of way about it. I keep having to force myself to work with it, maybe it will grow on me. But i agree with you completely.
I find The Fountain deck very intellectual and clinical (a sword deck). To me it lacks the spirit of earthiness.
I like that take on it!
Try to look and the abundance in life and appreciate the work the artists put in the deck.
This looks like an art deck rather than a reading deck. I like the art. I might look for it used.
That's a great way of looking at this deck ❤️
No one can beat the Light Seers tarot deck.😅👏🏻
Light Seers is phenomenal
Yes 🙌💪✨️ my soul deck 🌠
The Hierophant card is so smart with the mirrors.
If you decide NOT to keep it ... let me know! I really want this deck, but I'm not a fan of paying full price! :)
😁
The price is about all the artwork
So are the cards standard size???
Mine will be here Sunday & they looked so much bigger online!
Mine is also purple on top not white so I’m interested to see what I get 😩
I only paid $25 for them though & yes sold by the creator! Lol I had to learn the hard way… I want a nice big deck! But after buying a ton… I still haven’t found the “perfect deck” I’d like an original print, in plastic like the CS 2nd generation but can’t find them anywhere…
The quest continues for the “perfect deck” 😂
I love all my decks but idk I think there has to be a “perfect” deck out there!!!
Lol my comment makes me sound like a crazy person! 😆🤷🏻♀️💫
I purchased a few decks of cards that just arrived a few minutes ago and this was one of the decks I wanted to purchase but wasn't sure so I didn't get it. As far as the artwork goes, it's gorgeous but while I didn't necessarily have a jarring reaction to the Strength card I did have a reaction to the death card. Not because it's death but because the artwork was almost unforgiving in meaning. Death doesn't mean literal death all the time, it can be the end of something but also the beginning of something. Most of the death cards I've had could be depicted many ways just off imagery but this one...a tad darker than needed. A literal depiction is what the art work suggests, if this makes sense.
Yes yes yes. That death card gave me a gut reaction too. I've been playing around with the deck and I feel like it is a more "serious" feeling deck. I'm still going to try to give it a chance, but yeah, how it makes you feel is important. What other decks did you purchase, if you dont mind me asking?
beautiful and clear deck i love it, thanks for the review!!
Youre very welcome ❤
I felt at first that the Death card seemed wrong, but it seemed very familiar too. I used to live right next to a forest... it looks like a deer through night vision! After a bit of pondering I understand the art on this card now, but at first glance it is a bit sort of 😱
its such an intense representation
Today i find this deck for 24 dollars...do you think it is a good price to try ti play whit them? :)
That's a great price to try it ❤️
It’s $20 for Prime Day on Amazon.
This card.... I feel both energy yin and yang.... I should have this one....
This deck leaves me with a cold, hollow feeling inside. Unsettling. Idk why.
Me too... but some people REALLY love it. 🤷♀️
Same I have mine but I feel no connection to it and it doesn't seem to work
I don't tend to like to work with pip-ish decks, but the artstyle is rly interesting.
Awesome review and i can see why so many people don’t like this deck the cards and art makes me very uneasy and just all around negatively usually i am a huge fan of art like this but just watching this video i just don’t get great feelings when i look at it. i can see how people like this deck personally i just dont like it
Also the strength card is really unsettling
Also 40$ would need much better quality cardstock
Thank you so much! I'm glad I'm not the only one with those feelings ❤
I own this deck and yes it's perfect for the hands perfect size and I love the artwork as I am an artist I miss Sagittarius
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I had this deck on my list to buy for awhile. But it has now been removed from my list. That Strength card, to me, is gross and insensitive. Why would the the illustrator draw that? Why was it approved? I wish we knew what was going through their mind.
In regards to the death card, I find they took it too literal. Like a card like that would definitely scare a client if you used this deck with them and just hearing death is already scary enough, not sure why they needed to make the imagery scary also.
This deck was very disappointing to me.
Agreed. The deck is pretty serious in my opinion. It can also be quite literal. The Strength card still rubs me the wrong way hard so I am not sure how much use this deck will be getting 🤷♀️
Wait, forgive me if I'm missing something... but isn't the Strength card just a woman riding a lion? Why is it "gross and insensitive"?
@@linav6260 The illustration looks like a white person riding a person of colour. That's why I said what I said.
Why are people seeing a person of colour in the lion’s face?
Most beautiful deck ever
I’ve been in the same boat about this deck - I’ve been hearing many people liking or disliking this deck. I was actually looking at this deck and The Wild Unknown Tarot when I was purchasing my first tarot deck (obviously I went with TWU). I recently gave my TWU a new home as I no longer connected to it. After this walkthrough, I’m glad I went with TWU even though I no longer have it in my collection. Like you said, the artwork in this deck is neat. A little too neat for me. Thanks for doing this walkthrough. I’m hoping the deck will give you positive readings 💚
It's interesting how decks connect differently with people. I do love my Wild Unknown deck though, it's just so easy to work with. This deck just seems too serious most of the time.
It's due to be delivered in 2 days and I came to this video because my husband pointed out there's an extra card.
I completely agree and wasn't impressed for $40.00 ...would never purchase it
I could see it for the price of the Mystic Tarot which was $25.
Oh irony of looking for "diversity" in almost every deck of cards.
I really love how you cover all the aspects!
I am a complete beginner, like I don’t know ANYTHING and I really need a bit of guidance so if it’s not an inconvenience could we have a chat on Instagram? Or wherever else you prefer? 🙏
I would suggest against it. I’m a beginner myself but I have the RW deck and the art of these deck doesn’t match at all to the original. It confuses me tbh
I just got this deck a few days ago haha. No joke, late night on Amazon and the price dropped to 8 dollars for about an hour or so, I bought it instantly and took a screenshot of it in case they changed it. I am assuming it was some kind of malfunction but it was 9 dollars all together and not the knock off. I always check my wish list to see if prices drop a little bit. Yea, unfortunately, I would be pretty upset if I got this for the MSRP because the cardstock is not the greatest. I thought it would be better quality, it's like they put the money in the nice box. The deck had an odd energy about it at first, I set it in my happy tarot place (lol) and it seemed better. I got some good readings out of it. I actually like some of the descriptions in the guidebook.
Dang I guess I wasn't very observant over the strength card, I always just saw a lion, had to go straight to see what the book says. It just says she's caressing a lion that represents her savage side that she isn't trying to get rid of but to harness it for her benefit, so, hmmm idk.
That's exactly why I bought it- the sale. But yeah full price probably went to the packaging but 🤷♀️.
But yay you got a deal! Gotta love that! And yes, some of the descriptions are really good in the book.
Watching this deck I have an impression like 3 persons have made it. Some cards are too dark, some are blured, some are in summer colours. In my opinion, 25% of the cards are nice and unigue, the rest nothing special. $40 is too high for this.