The Star
Tarot emphasizing Golden Dawn correspondences and Waite-Smith traditions.
creator unknown · 2017
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The record
When I first received this deck I made a point of reading through the guidebook, and was struck by several references to the Golden Dawn Tarot made by Mary K Greer in her forward. I have, since then, spent a great deal of time contemplating these Golden Dawn correspondences, as well as both Waite-Smith and Crowley-Harris homages included in The Star Tarot and come to the conclusion that the deck is best taken on its own merits. You see, this is a beautiful deck, deeply nuanced and carefully layered with symbolism and meaning that should be appreciated without undue reference to its illustrious predecessors. This deck is a labour of love, completed over a long period of time, and it shows in the attention to detail and authentic occult and spiritual symbolism. The use of colours (whose occult significance has been one of the cornerstones of tarot symbolism) is a powerful tool in the hands of the decks originator and artist Cathy McClelland. Colours have long been associated with various mental and spiritual states of awareness and they are employed in the Star Tarot to great effect. When compared with the illustrations of earlier decks such as the Golden Dawn Tarot, whose artist Ro
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