Nature
Classic foundational deck from early tarot revival era emphasizing natural imagery.
by Jan Strube · 2002
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The record
It's been over forty years now since I obtained, after a long and frustrating search, my very first tarot deck. Decks were few and hard to come by in those days, but I had finally located and purchased one from an obscure magic shop in a rather disreputable part of town. When I finally got home, I tremblingly opened the box and held the cards in my hands, slowly fanning through the deck. I felt a sense of wonder, of magic and mystery, a certainty that these garishly colored pasteboards were doorways to a universe of meaning that would forever change me. I was the Fool, ready to begin my Journey. Now, forty-some years later, that same jolt of joyous wonderment was re-awakened in me when I discovered Nature Tarot. Created by Jan Strube, the Dutch edition of the deck was released in 2002; the first English deck became available in February, 2009. Using a photo-collage approach similar to James Wanless and Ken Knutson's Voyager Tarot (which was an obvious inspiration in the deck's structure and in some of its nomenclature), the 78 images are astonishing in their beauty and spiritual depth. In a tarot marketplace of often numbing sameness, where RWS clones predominate and, in some cases
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