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Dance of Life

78-card tarot exploring personal journey through life's cyclical dance.

by Audrey Savage, Paula Scott Franz · 2000

cyclicalexperientialspirituallife-journey

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The Canon's read

Tarot Canon's own assessment, written for this catalog.

Audrey Savage and Paula Scott Franz's Dance of Life reads the seventy-eight cards as choreography: our personal dance through life's cycles and experiences, as the review has it, oversized sturdy glossy cards built for a practice that treats readings as movements rather than verdicts. The dance metaphor is older than it sounds casual; sacred and folk traditions alike have always figured life as stepped patterns, and the deck's experiential framing puts the reader inside the pattern rather than before a fortune-teller. The large format the review notes is a practical signature: cards this size present better than they shuffle, favoring contemplative one-card work and teaching settings over quick spreads. Decks of this era's experiential-spiritual school aimed at workshops and journals as much as tables. It suits movement-minded readers, dancers literally, workshop leaders, journalers who want a prompt with presence, and collectors of the millennium's humanistic tarot wave. Readers wanting crisp divinatory machinery will find this deck more interested in how they move than where they land.

From the archive

An excerpt from a review at the Aeclectic Tarot archive, in the original reviewer's voice.

The Dance of Life Cards is a 78 card tarot based on our personal dance through the cycles and experiences of life. The cards themselves are 5 ¼ high by 3 ¾ wide. Cards are sturdy and glossy therefore may...

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