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Goddess

52-card oracle celebrating goddess archetypes and feminine divine wisdom.

by Amy Sophia Marashinsky, Hrana Janto · Element Books

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

Amy Sophia Marashinsky's Goddess set pairs each card with a goddess from world mythology, painted by Hrana Janto, and backs the deck with a substantial companion book that treats every figure as a story rather than a keyword. That ratio of book to card is the tell for how this deck wants to be used: it is a reading companion in the older sense, closer to a mythology primer you draw from than a spread-driven oracle. The cards themselves run large, big enough that shuffling is honestly awkward, which the format quietly concedes. The defensible way to read it is one goddess at a time, portrait plus story plus whatever the story surfaces in you. It suits readers who come to cards for archetype and narrative, and anyone building familiarity with goddess traditions across cultures. Read the figures as inherited stories carrying long human weight, not as beings issuing instructions, and the deck holds up well.

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

This set comes with 52 cards and a 188-page, paperback-size book. The cards are 13.3cm by 9.5cm (5 1/4 by 3 3/4 inches), a bit too big to shuffle comfortably. The back is non-reversible and shows a sibyl holding a...

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