Jonathan Dee Tarot Pack

The record

I bought this Tarot and book set many years ago, and for some years I was using it very regularly. Then it had a lay-off in the depth of my collection, and now I and my clients are revisiting it. (I have given the accompanying book away so I am unable to review it anew, but this is what I thought of it a few years ago.) I always liked the deck better. I love the backs: a side-to-side symmetry, it nonetheless has an up-down orientation that I find handy and pleasing in any deck. The painted style of the backs, too, is even more reminiscent of woodcuts, which I love, so it wins there. Having mentioned the faces of the cards, I'd better go there in a bit more detail. All of the deck is done in a modern-archaic style designed to imitate woodcut images and also with a very Marseilles-like feel to it, although it is a lot more accessible to modern minds than the actual TdM. The pips are unillustrated, although many of them are decorated or arranged in the body of the card so as to hint at their meaning. The least "useful" suit in that regard is, in my opinion, Swords. Cups have a largely turquoise colouration, Swords purple, Pentacles yellow and Wands orange. This departs from the tradit

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