Medicine Woman

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I acquired this deck mostly by chance and certainly not through planning, when I came across a post on the Aeclectic Tarot forums offering to trade it for another deck. I decided to check it out, and fell in love with it instantly! Within two weeks, I was cradling it in my arms and praising the day I responded to that post! This deck, created by Carol Bridges, is another treasure. The artwork on its own is gorgeous, being simple enough to appeal and be open, but still being detailed enough to convey meaning in an evocative and very inventive way. Every single thing in the cards seems to have meaning of some sort: Even the way the titles of the Major Arcana are written! To give a brief background to this deck before I got into details however, I shall say that its purpose, other than to be a deck for people to read with, is to help people, both men and women, regain the feminine healing energy that many people in the West are brought up to neglect nowadays. The creator takes pains to reassue that this deck is not specifically aimed at women only, despite its name, which came about due to the idea of the feminine healing energies that we are trying to reclaim. As Carol says: "I feel

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