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This was another deck I looked at many times online before purchasing it. I admit it, I was resistant to this new concept! Naturally suspicious (yes I’m a Scorpio and today is my birthday) by nature of anything that feels “trendy”, or “contrived”. But I do love innovation and this deck proved to be just that. Innovative, imaginative and now holds a permanent position at my reading table. When it first arrived, it took me about a week to open it. That’s how resistant I was! I pulled out the cards and thought, “but there is only one aspect of a card on each one of transparencies!” I am definitely not going to like this deck and I felt validated in my hesitation to purchase it in the first place. I put the cards aside and opened Emily’s accompanying book, which is a good size I might say. That was the trigger to turn my thinking around. Emily is an excellent writer and what she has to say is well worth reading. She knows the Tarot! She met the mustard so to speak in her knowledge of the Tarot classics (which I’m also rather fussy about) and distilled all that she understood about the Tarot to one central image. But she doesn’t just stop there! Throughout this book she gives many, many

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