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Title: The Nigel Jackson Tarot by Nigel Jackson ISBN: 1-56718-365-4 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Misc. Supplies Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful artwork... fantastic deck... Llewellyn's best
Comment: A beautiful deck full of bright pen and watercolor images that grab the imagination. It has become my deck of choice. The cards are larger than most decks, which I like, and the packaging is well done. This deck makes its home in my best tarot bag... I like it that much. The art is soothing to the eye, unlike the familure Waite/Smith images. The book that comes with the deck is interesting reading but for the beginner this deck and Joan Bunning's workbook are a very good match (even though Joan uses Wait, the images translate nicely... for the most part). This is Llewellyn's best deck in my opinion and you cannot help but come away from this deck anything but a fan of Nigel Jackson's talents. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: A lovely, lyrical and fresh retelling of the Waite deck
Comment: Let me start by saying that I don't consider a "retelling of the Waite deck" to be in any way a criticism. The Waite/Coleman-Smith tarot informs all of our perspectives, at this point. I appreciate tarot decks that are highly original, but I don't exactly see the point of a deck that creates entirely new meanings for the cards. Tarot cards are potent, in part, because they draw upon shared meanings that have been carried through time. All the decks that I personally use (as opposed to only collect) have fairly similar basic meanings to each card. I consider this a plus.
What is really special about this deck is, as other reviewers have pointed out, the quality. You really feel that focus and loving attention was paid to every step of the creation of this deck, from the luminous, colorful paintings, to the thorough discussion of the deck in the accompaning book, to the excellent quality of the cards themselves. To be truthful, I haven't yet plowed through the author's philosophy about his deck; the beautiful cards speak for themselves.
The art is an interesting combination of renaissance painterly tradition, Tibetan decorations, William Morris' English influence, and slightly cartoonish (but quite tolerable) figures. You get the feeling that Jackson, and especially his wife, are represented over and over in both the trumps and the minors! The minors have quite similar symobolism to the Waite deck, but not always. There are lots of unique cards. Only several of these do I not personally care for. For instance, the 9 of Swords pictures a nightmare: a nude women with a frightful beast's head. The traditional picture of someone in their own private nightmare of despair, doubt, fear, torment, guilt, or whatever, seems more powerful than this kind of silly, scary lady. And I found the Moon to be rather dark: very much the ominous, malignant side of the Moon, without the deep, holy and benevolent aspect of the Lunar Orb. But these are really the only cards I didn't care for.
The Trumps, in particular, are very powerful. The backgrounds radiate energy, intention, and serenity, and the figures themselves are very effectively brought to life. This deck has already leaped into my very favorite top five or six for regular use. By the way, the cover illustration of Temperance is not, in my opinion, the strongest or lovliest, by any means. Don't hesitate to invest in this stunning and user-friendly new addition to the world of Tarot.
Rating: 3
Summary: A beautiful deck, but...
Comment: This is definitely one of the most visually attractive tarot decks I've seen, with luminous pastel coloration and excellent drawing. The images belong to the modern fairytale school, a sort of update to the generic medieval flavor of Waite and the neo-Waite decks.
That's the good; now, the bad. The author (who supplies 140+ page book) makes amazing and unsubstantiated claims for the origins of the tarot, the history of his images, and for his training in various secret schools. This last, he says, has provided a number of esoteric, hitherto-unrevealed teachings which he will show in his deck. Unfortunately, most of the deck cards mirror either Waite's tarot or the various Marseilles decks in their symbolism and arrangement of objects, while the few cards that venture out on their own merely provide a new image to one of Waite's previously established definitions. In short, a lot of wind, but precious little new thought blowing by.
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Title: The Forest of Souls: A Walk Through the Tarot by Rachel Pollack ISBN: 1567185339 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot by Rachel Pollack ISBN: 0722535724 Publisher: Thorsons Pub Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Golden Tarot Deck by Kat Black ISBN: 1572814349 Publisher: United States Games Systems Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Tarot Court Cards: Archetypal Patterns of Relationship in the Minor Arcana by Kate Warwick-Smith ISBN: 0892810920 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 05 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Shining Tribe Tarot, Revised and Expanded by Rachel Pollack ISBN: 1567185320 Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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