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TAROT QUEST

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TAROT QUEST with LYNDALL MCQUINN The days of the Quest are a time to reflect and plan: to emerge stronger in resolve as to where you will guide your life path. These four tarot readings take us on a journey to examine from what point we are beginning and how over a twelve -month period we plan to implement our strategies. After deciding what the strategy is we look at how to commence and implement this blueprint. Lastly we review where your life is poised at the moment that you are stepping out. To begin. These four sessions guide our actions over the period of the twelve months.  We use Tarot to plot the journey; via four different readings we explore the terrain of our year ahead.  Ideally this is a spring retreat if we work with the seasonal integrity of the year. Believing that new seeds and ideas blossom with spring and summer is the time to build, autumn asks us to assess and reap the harvest of our planning, whilst winter lets us review and replan. This quest is the time
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OSTARA TAROT

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Ostara tarot. Ostara Tarot Created by four fabulous illustrators who reside in Vancouver, this is the second Canadian deck I have been really impressed with. The four illustrators, Molly Applejohn, Eden Cooke, Krista Gibbard and Julia Iredale have produced a beautiful, gentle, thoughtful deck that reaches into the heart of the reader and entices her to explore the knowledge hidden within it. It's mystical and mythical, it's shamanic and varied. The animal custodians are equal to their human counterparts, all the worlds unite in this pastel coloured universe.   Ostara Tarot @Krista Gibbard For a combined project this deck pulls together very nicely. We can sometimes get great art but not a great deck, this however manages to hold together the storytelling within the deck. Maybe because the illustrators have an interest and knowledge of the occult that allowed them to create a working deck. The accompanying book is beautiful too. Very concise with coloured illustr
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TAROT OF VENICE

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Tarot Venetian Carnival @ Eugene Vinitski TAROT SET IN VENICE. There are quite a few tarot decks set in Venice but they are not easy to get your hands on. This beautiful High Priestess by Eugene Vinitski and many other fabulously Venice iconic images can be found on Behance. Eugene is a Swiss illustrator and his work is magnificent. Is there an actual deck that I can get my hands on? I don't think so I suspect it is a deck in progress. I really love the deck so far. To confuse the matter even more there is another deck that comes up with a very similar title. This one is produced by Roxana Paul and can be purchased from her website. This is a new trend for tarot illustrators to have their own web pages and sell the deck directly to the buyer. This is a good idea but these decks are expensive. Not that I don't agree with the price but it makes one think a lot before buying.                                             This deck by Roxana Paul is also a beautiful deck of
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ACE'S INDICATE NEW SPACE

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Dragon Tarot @Peter Pracowink U.S. Games A reading of aces is an uplifting experience.   The client is up for new beginnings, new starts and a new journey through the Minor Arcana.  Often this is received with a sigh of relief. Many readings contain both the ten and the aces which is telling the reader we are ready to let go of old patterns and begin afresh. I always look to see when I'm reading, if I'm dealing with the closure of the tens thus trying to get to the ace or if I'm at the beginning of new ventures. The ace is a seed card; we don't know much but we do know the thought or emotion or action or vision has shifted depending on which suit we are dealing with. Every suit in the Minor Arcana begins with an ace; it is marking the start of new emotions if in Cups, new thoughts if in Swords, new vision or creative exploits if in Wands                                               new projects or business if in pentacles. We start our exploration o
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READING IN THE TEMPLE

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TEMPLE WORK IS SACRED AND VARIED. The concept of working in a temple is a technique that encourages us to seek a broad perspective on matters. It usually begins with setting a middle feature altar and then forming the four directions around the altar to hold the space and offer protecting pillars or to give four differing perspectives to journey to and from.  This spread when used in Tarot is a way of delving more deeply into issues and fleshing out what's lying beneath questions.  Modern Spellcaster'sTarot @Melanie Marquis & Scott Murphy Using any deck the querant  usually sets the altar first. So for example if we were looking at the issue of seeking direction the first card is the Altar Card depicting where the situation of direction is to begin with. The Modern Spellcaster's is a great deck to use in this type of work as the fabulous text by Melanie Murphy has a spell to go with each card and as in this type of reading we are trying to flesh out and alter
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THE COURT OF JAPARIDZE.

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Japaridze Tarot@U.S.Games QUEENS OF THE COURT. The Court of the Japaridze is a stunning mixture of characters. We all love the Queens and traditionally they have often been the only feminine characters in the court. These ladies are all adorned in the most amazing costumes. The Queen of Winds is a highly intelligent woman and in this deck appears to be an older and more mature figure than her King. There is a suggestion she may be divorced, she faces the King and would certainly hold her own. Often the Queen of Swords is cold and harsh which is interesting but perhaps not surprising that the Tarot portrays the woman of intellect to be cold and aloof. Japaridze Tarot @U.S. Games. The beautiful Queen of Fire pictured right,  is a gentle but independent woman of warmth.  She too faces her King but he is an authority and business tycoon who I doubt is a very emotive companion. He is a great provider whilst she walks gently and quietly with her lamp of light for all to wa
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JAPARIDZE JOURNEY

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What a wonder of a tarot deck is Nino Japaridze's Tarot. Nino is a surrealist artist from Paris and her interpretation of the Tarot is exquisite. Although the artwork is unique, the structure of the deck runs to tradition, so it is not hard to read once you align with the intensity of the illustration. Japaridze tarot @ Nino Japaridze The Majors are traditional as are the Court and the Minor Arcana. What stands the deck on its own is the brilliant illustration. It comes in a box set with a very clear and concise text by Steve Lucas and the deck is produced by U.S.Games. The suits of the Minor Arcana have been changed to winds, fire, tides and gardens. Although they differ from the tradition it is still very easy to read these as an elemental journey. Some of the minor cards represent certain traits; for example 5 Cups = grief,  3 Cup is card of happiness, 9 Cups is the wish card and so on. As we can see the Japaridze  portrays these concepts very clearly. (See card on right
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