Okay, this is a very strange deck.  I have to say that right up front.  I looked through it a number of times and only got confused.  It is a foreign deck to begin with, and the artwork style is modern but weird.  Facial expressions are goofy.  And odd shapes abound.

Traditional suits of Wands, Swords, Cups and Pentacles are used.  However, this is another artist who apparently has no clue what a pentacle is, for the "pentacles" in these cards are more like these shiny golden plates with all kinds of stylized design on them.  They actually remind me of Incan gold plates that have been found in the jungles.

I dislike the older use of the Roman numerals used on the deck, because they are different from the way I was taught. I know either way is technically correct, but I just don’t like the use of VIIII for 9, it should be IX.

The cards themselves are standard sized and stiffness, and would pose no problem to work with in that way.  I can't even begin to understand how to make any correlation between the imagery on the cards and the meanings of them, however, so I don't believe they would make a good deck to read with, either for others or for self-reading.

It should be noted that this deck has gone out-of-print, so if you like what you see here, and you have an opportunity to pick one up somewhere, you should certainly get it right away. Once they are gone, they are gone for good.

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Review Copyright 1998 by Gina M. Pace