Kissatarot

The record

I am one of the lucky ones: a user of Tarot living outside of Finland who has managed to get their hands on a copy of this appealing deck. I first became aware of it during discussions on the Aeclectic Tarot forums, and was immediately intrigued by the look of the cards online. In the flesh they are even more appealing. Presented in a two-piece box, really sturdy and with a larger-than-lifesize copy of "strength" on the front, the cards are well-protected by a box that is so appealing in its shades of purple and yellow that if I were to give this deck away, gift-wrapping would only worsten the effect. The backs of the cards are really classy: two stylised yellow flowers twined, lover-like around each other, under a gibbous moon in the deck's trademark purple sky. The back itself feels like a full Tarot image, and has a sense of silence, awe and holiness: until I saw the image on the Moon card, I assumed it was an extract or a replica of the Moon used for the backs. There is no LWB or companion volume for this deck. This could be a problem for a beginner, but for someone already involved in Tarot it is really a non-issue. LWBs tend to be reasonably unhelpful, anyway. The cardstock i

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