Connolly
Divisive traditional tarot sparking strong reactions from practitioners.
by Eileen Connolly · 1990
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Ah the Connolly tarot... I know a few people who absolutely rave about this deck, and I know quite a few others who absolutely detest it. Me?....I'm somewhere in the middle. Normally I wouldn't bother to write a reveiw for a deck that I feel kind of apathetic and "middle of the road" about, but this deck merits some appreciation from me because I actually use it often in professional readings. Those of you out there who also do readings for the public, in varied places, might understand where I'm coming from. There have been occasions where I have been booked as a psychic reader in the most unlikely places... taverns, mall openings, church socials, spaghetti dinners, etc. And often in these places,I would come across people who equate "Tarot" with "Occult" and therefore with "evil". These are the times, when I call what I do "Angel Readings", and I pull out a couple of Angel Oracle decks... and the Connolly. What I like about the Connolly is that there are no "bad" cards. The images and the symbolism are all colorful and light and positive, and for the most part, people don't even realize that I am reading with a Tarot deck at all. Both Death and the Devil have been renamed and tra
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