Halo/Sharp New Energy New Age

Oxo Halo and Michael Sharp's New Energy, New Age deck does exactly what its record says: computer-generated majors, retitled and revised to remove negative energies, the Fool becoming Joyful, Death becoming something gentler. This catalog's honest verdict: sanitizing the arcana removes their function. Death, the Tower and their dark company are not bugs in tarot; they are the reason the system can describe a whole life, and a deck that deletes them can only describe a good week. Having said it plainly, the deck deserves its documentary due: the negativity-removal impulse is a real and recurring current in new age culture, and this is an unusually complete specimen, the whole program executed with conviction, early digital art included. It suits collectors documenting new age positivity culture, students of how traditions get bowdlerized, and readers who genuinely want affirmation cards wearing tarot titles, who should simply know that is what they are buying. Readers who need the cards to tell the truth on hard days require the unedited deck.