Linestrider
Spiritual deck for those walking boundaries between visible and invisible worlds.
creator unknown · 2016
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The record
In folklore an edge separates the visible world from the invisible world on so many levels, and Linestriders are those magical people who seek to live their lives or draw their knowledge from both sides of the line, or edge. Linestriding is about walking lines that separate ideas, disciplines, mental states, worlds, and realities. With solid foundations in the Waite-Smith tarot tradition, the Linestrider Tarot both expands and reduces the imagery of Pamela Coleman Smith's classic deck. Humans appear on roughly half the cards in this tarot, and it is animals that take up the slack, fulfilling the roles generally taken by humans in many Rider-Waite-Smith based decks. With an extraordinarily sensual and sensitive touch artist Siolo Thompson depicts humans as mysterious and dreamy, and animals as canny, intelligent beings. This is a classic 78 card tarot, with 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana. It is fully illustrated. The structure of the deck is conventional there are no renamed Major Arcana, and the minor Arcana suits are Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles. The Court cards consist of Page, Knight, Queen, and King. The cards measure 70 x 127 mm which makes them a fairly average s
The cards
