Illuminated

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"Psychic and healing energy found its way into the cards. During the time I was painting, Neptune was conjunct the moon in my birth chart, perhaps the most psychic of all transits... Now that I look back I can see how this affected the energy of the Illuminated Tarot paintings that I was doing at the same time." Carol Herzer. When I opened Carol Herzer's hand-assembled courier package it pretty much crackled with energy. The crackle might have been the little leafs of hand cut paper placed between small stacks of the hand-cut cards. Yet I have a clear memory of electricity. That's the best description I can give. As I unwrapped the cards, they felt electric. It might just have been static, but to me it just felt amazing. Psychic and healing energy indeed. Then, of course, I lost myself for hours in the stunning images on the cards. Carol took the symbolic foundations created by Pixie (Colman-Smith) and re-interpreted them from a modern, enlightened perspective. Every image is rippling with energy. Swords glow. Aura's surround everyone and every symbol. Waves of what I can only describe as "astral energy" ebb and flow from every inhabitant of the cards. The characters themselves see

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