Enchanted Forhaxa

MJ Cullinane arrived at this 2023 deck with a catalog behind her, the Crow Tarot and Urban Crow Oracle most famously, and the Enchanted Forhaxa extends that run into Norse and Celtic folklore: a mystical woodland register on a Rider-Waite-Smith chassis. Cullinane's decks share a recognizable warmth of palette and creature-first staging, and this one puts that signature in service of the northern European story-world, animals moving through the arcana as folklore figures rather than wildlife. The RWS base does its usual quiet work: meanings transfer, spreads behave, and the folklore reads as translation rather than replacement. That makes this one of the more accessible routes into Norse-and-Celtic-flavored tarot, considerably gentler than the runic and reconstructionist decks that share its sources. It suits Cullinane's established readership, animal-deck collectors, and RWS readers who want a folkloric atmosphere without a new system to learn. Readers wanting scholarly Norse reconstruction should look to the tradition's sterner shelves.