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Art of Love
New Age deck channeling divine love energy and relationship empowerment.
by Toni Carmine Salerno, Denise Jarvie · 2017
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The Canon's read
Tarot Canon's own assessment, written for this catalog.
Love is a state of being, the deck announces, and Toni Carmine Salerno with Denise Jarvie build all seventy-eight cards on that premise: the Art of Love Tarot as a channel for divine love, relationship guidance framed as opening rather than analyzing. Within the catalog's Salerno shelf, the Gaia, the Angels Gods and Goddesses, this is the interpersonal one, his luminous devotional register pointed at the heart's actual traffic.
A full tarot structure distinguishes it from the love-oracle crowd: the complete arcana means the deck can, in principle, carry love's whole weather including its storms, though the divine-love framing keeps the barometer set fair. Read it as intended, an instrument for practicing generosity of heart, and it serves; read it expecting the Tower to strike a relationship reading honestly, and the framing will soften what a starker deck would say plainly. It suits devotional readers, couples working intentionally, Salerno collectors, and love-focused practices. Realists in heartbreak triage need the unedited instrument.
From the archive
An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.
"Love is a state of being " The Art of Love Tarot is intended as a channel for divine love. In opening to the possibilities of divine love we allow it to flow through us into the lives of others...
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