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Pagan Ways

Nostalgic pagan deck featuring idealized earth-harmony era with nature-referencing imagery.

by Anna Franklin · 2015

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The record

Pagan and Wiccan tarot decks are trending at the moment and Schiffer Publishing have thrown their hat into the ring with the Pagan Ways Tarot. This is a nostalgic deck featuring images of an idealised era where pagans lived in harmony with nature. One way or another most of the images reference Pamela Colman Smith's classic tarot illustrations - familiar scenes, people, and detail are abundant throughout the deck. This deck is a little bit revolutionary in that it noticeably shows quite a few middle-aged people (conspicuously absent from many decks) in a broad variety of roles previously assigned to the young and glossy. The Pagan Ways Tarot has in fact been conceived as the Fool’s Journey – as the Fool moves through the Minor Arcana s/he has encounters with deities who have specific names and functions. This Is the Journey of Life. As the Fool moves through the Major Arcana s/he encounters the archetypal energies and the greater mysteries – this is the Journey of Initiation. This is a 78 card tarot deck with 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana. In the Major Arcana two cards have been renamed: The Wheel of Fortune is now titled Wyrd, and Judgement is Rebirth. The Minor Arcana consi

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