Tarot of Gemstones and Crystals
Themed tarot exploring gemstones and crystal healing associations.
creator unknown · AGMuller · 1996
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The record
A few months ago I picked up a copy of The Tarot of Gemstones and Crystals, published by AGMuller, designed by Helmut G. Hofmann. It came without a companion-book, just a fairly sketchy LWB - but then, when is a LWB ever anything but sketchy? They have such tight space-restraints. At first I was very disappointed by the deck. I no longer remember exactly what I was expecting to see when I opened it up - I certainly wasn't expecting what I got, which was simple photographic shots of tumbled/cut and raw stones on plain single-colour backgrounds. Perhaps I was expecting photocollage, with photos of stones worked into pictoral designs the way hand-drawn roses are worked into every card of the Sacred Rose deck, or perhaps I was expecting scenes set up with pieces of stone replacing the humans in more or less traditional RWS-clone designs. I don't know. All I know was that my first feelings were feelings of disappointment. I put it aside for a couple of months, and came back to it for a reprise visit. Knowing that there was no illustrative work on the cards, I didn't have that horrible shock that I had the first time, and I drew them out of the box and shuffled them. They are about stand
The cards
