Curious Travels

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The Curious Travels Tarot Deck by Amelia Rozear is a charming tarot heavily influenced by the Rider-Waite Tarot. For users of the classic tarot many of the scenes in the Curious Travels Tarot Deck will be familiar – for the most part the artist does not stray far from Pamela Coleman Smith’s timeless illustrations. However this deck is not a slavish copy it has its own original twists and turns. For starters many of the human figures in the Rider-Waite deck have been replaced by animals, and sometimes by anthropomorphic figures – shamanistic beings caught somewhere in transition between human and animal. Humans have been replaced entirely by animals and insects in many of the cards – a pair of dancing bees in the 4 of Wands, two intertwined snakes (which to my eyes look like the giant sand worms in Dune) in the 2 of Cups, a rather morose looking stag in the 10 of Wands, the very fishy King of Cups, various horses, lizards, even an orangutan make their appearance. This is a 79 card fully illustrated tarot deck. There are 22 Major Arcana cards, 56 Minor Arcana cards, and one extra card titled The Travellers. The Minor Arcana is divided into 4 suits of 14 cards each. The suits are Wand

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