Miss Cleo's Tarot Power
Pop-culture tarot deck from 90s TV personality with mixed commercial legacy.
by Seth Stephens, J. F. Lambert
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The record
Miss Cleo's Tarot Power set includes Miss Cleo's Tarot Power Deck, Tarot Secrets Video, and a bonus book by Miss Cleo, "Keepin' It Real." Miss Cleo introduced the Tarot to mainstream America back in the late '90s. Unfortunately it was little more than a common middle of the night telemarketing scam. The company she mascotted disappeared after shady, fraudulant practices such as geurilla telemarketing schemes and billing people who never called were made public. On the other hand, Miss Cleo's Tarot Power Deck is not so bad. It is a standard Rider-Waite clone with an Egyptian twist. In my opinion the artwork by J.F. Lambert is substandard, but only in the fact that it was apparently sketched very quickly and colored in solid with an old graphics program. The actual sketches are good though - proportionate, but lacking details, shadowing, and highlights. The esoteric development of the deck mirrors the artwork. Like the vast majority of tarots based on RWS format, Miss Cleo's deck utterly lacks depth. It appears to be a rush-job; a standard rewording of the same old tired RWS text - in this case a stripped-down version. Like many "Tarot experts," Miss Cleo's knowledge of Tarot barely
The cards
