Angelic

Amy Caroll Berntsen's Angelic Tarot through Starfire Press carries celestial imagery across a full structure, and the record offers little more, filing it with the under-documented angelic wing rather than the documented one. The full seventy-eight card commitment distinguishes it structurally from the oracle-format angel mainstream; an angelic tarot proper asks the host to staff every office, swords included, which forces a more complete angelology than the comfort genre requires. Small-press angel tarots of the nineties preceded the Hay House era's standardization, and their variety, each maker's private heaven, is what the later commercial format flattened. Berntsen's entry documents that freer moment. It suits collectors of the angel genre's pre-boom diversity, small-press hunters, full-structure angel readers unsatisfied by forty-four card comfort, and historians of how heaven got standardized. The documented celestial hierarchy awaits in the Place-Guiley deck; this one's hierarchy kept its own counsel, as private heavens do.