Australian Animal

Ann Williams-Fitzgerald's Australian Animal Tarot brought the continent's fauna to U.S. Games in 2001: a full seventy-eight card tarot, purchasable with its companion volume Wisdom of the Australian Animals, kangaroo, kookaburra and kin holding the offices. As the catalog's Australian shelf attests, King's dreaming oracles, Darcey's wildflowers, Brown's Indigenous-authored decks, the continent's nature spirituality publishing runs deep, and this deck is its full-structure tarot entry through a major American house. Australian fauna suits tarot's need for symbolic range unusually well, a wildlife of extremes and evolutionary independence, creatures with no northern equivalents carrying meanings no northern deck assigns. The book-and-deck format signals the teaching intent. It suits Australian readers wanting their own fauna in full structure, animal-tarot collectors extending past the northern menageries, US Games completists, and readers who suspect the platypus was always destined for the arcana. Which office it holds, the deck knows and this note leaves as incentive.