Well, for a long time I avoided this deck, because I had a bad experience with someone I disliked who used this deck and so the association was unfortunate.  I worked my way around to reviewing it for my page and it's actually not a bad deck.

The artwork is cute.  It's fanciful and filled with magickal little creatures like unicorns, mermaids, nymphs, and so on.  Bill thought the dragons looked wimpy.  The story is that in the imagined paradise of the moon (before man landed on the moon and crushed the fantasy to dust) all the different mystical creatures of the world lived.

The artist, Karen Marie Sweikhardt, literally has drawn every conceivable creature from every mythology in the history of planet earth and lumped them all together in this one imaginary place and called it tarot.  The symbolism in the Major Arcana seems to somewhat resemble the Rider-Waite, but there are some vast departures from it in places.

The suits are Swords (which are made of dragonflies) Staffs (irritatingly, the grammatically correct way to pluralize staff is staves) Cups and Pentacles.  The numbered cards seem pretty much to be a picture of the number of items, plus a few fairies and things thrown in for good measure.  The deck is standard sized and shuffles a little stiffly but not too bad, would probably break in with time.

I think this deck would work fine for someone who is into practicing faerie magick or for the connoisseur of unicorns and other fanciful creatures.  While well-painted, I found it a bit too silly for my tastes.

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Review Copyright 1998 by Gina M. Pace