Revelations

The record

Reviewing this deck (and its companion book) has been one of the most fun projects of the year for me. I wasn't too sure about this at first, because I was asked to review the book before the deck came out. I did find that a bit difficult, but I loved the book, and am incredibly excited about the deck! Zach Wong grew up in Malaysia, where he studied Western and Asian mythology. He now lives in Australia, where he works in illustration/graphic design. This gentleman is incredibly talented, has a vivid imagination, and has gifted the world with a deck that you really need to pay attention to. It follows the 'rules", then goes way beyond them! In creating this deck, Wong was interested in the myriad levels of meaning that each of the cards have, and in portraying the cards in a manner that would lend itself to multiple levels of interpretation. One of the ways in which he managed to do this was to place back to back illustrations on each card - the upright version lends itself to a certain meaning, and the reversed version lends itself to another meaning. In the Major Arcana, the archetypal journey, we find masks on each of the figures. I found this incredibly cool (but then, I am als

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