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Ananda

Soul-imagery focused tarot providing natural access to buried spiritual knowledge.

by Ananda Kurt Pilz · 2004

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A quote from creator Ananda Kurt Pilz opens the archive's entry and does most of the work: imagery, in his description, reaches the soul directly and gives a reader natural access to knowledge buried within. That is Pilz's account of the deck's purpose, worth reading as a statement of intent rather than a claim this catalog can verify, and it places the deck at the introspective, soul-imagery end of tarot rather than the fortune-telling end. The review notes Pilz also made an I-Ching deck, suggesting a method returning to the same imagery-first approach across more than one system. The archive supplies little external description of the cards themselves, so this note stays close to Pilz's framing rather than an outside critic's account. That absence is information: some decks arrive with a reviewer's independent assessment, and this one arrives mostly through its maker's own words. Approach it as you would any self-described tool for reflection, suited to readers drawn to introspective, psychologically minded tarot who don't need a second opinion before they buy.

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An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.

"The world of imagery directly reaches the world of our soul and makes possible a natural access to knowledge buried within ourselves." - Ananda Kurt Pilz The author and artist of this deck also has made an I-Ching deck for...

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