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Dream Enchantress

Tarot connecting dreamtime with conscious and subconscious exploration.

by Marco Nizzoli · 2009

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

Marco Nizzoli's second deck in this catalog trades the Secret's shadows for dreamtime: the bridge between conscious and subconscious selves, as the review's Barbara Moore framing has it, tarot and dream sharing their foundation of symbol and image. Nizzoli's comics-trained staging turns oneiric here, figures crossing thresholds mid-transformation, the Enchantress presiding over a deck where every scene feels half-remembered on waking. The Moore companion connection signals Lo Scarabeo's mature era, serious writers paired with serious artists, and the deck belongs beside the catalog's other night instruments: Donelli's Dream Cards for the journal, Walden's Cosmic Slumber for the drift, this one for working the bridge itself. It suits dream-workers who want full tarot structure rather than an oracle, Nizzoli admirers tracking his range from Secret to sleep, and readers whose best insights arrive at the threshold. Daylight literalists will keep asking what the cards mean exactly, which is precisely the wrong question here.

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

“Tarot of the Dream Enchantress” is all about dreamtime – that bridge between our conscious and unconscious/subconscious selves. Moore notes that Tarot and dreamtime are well connected, as they both work from a foundation of symbols and images. This visual...

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