Prediction Tarot by Bernard Stringer illustrated by Peter Richardson   This tarot deck appears in a limited number of tarot publications printed about ten to twelve years ago, including those by Sasha Fenton.  The deck itself is a new rendering of the classic Marseilles-style deck, using pips and courts in the Minor Arcana.  The colors are soft greyish watercolors and overall the deck has sort of a dismal look to it.  A lot of the scenes have clouds and skies in the background.   The artwork is very well done but the colors are so very somber and the people themselves are not terribly attractive.  I felt that the High Priestess, for example, looks quite like a man dressed in a hooded robe pretending to be a woman.  Several of the card designs are very smart and have a lot of atmosphere to them.   The Minor Arcana are some of the most boring I have seen.  This is another deck which seems to show virtually identical court cards in each suit.  All four of the kings look the same but for holding the different suit item, and the same goes for the queens, knights and pages.  The pip cards show very highly detailed drawings of the suit items arranged almost identically to the Marseilles tarot, with no imagination whatsoever.   The suits are Swords, Staves, Cups and Coins.  As mentioned above, the courts are King, Queen, Knight and Page.  The Major Arcana also use traditional titling, and the Justice card is number 8, with Strength as 11.  No other changes have been made.  The deck itself is slightly smaller than standard, making it easy to handle and shuffle.   This is a pleasant deck for those accustomed to using a classic Marseilles-type deck.  There are no surprises here and no real inspiration, either.  The watery-grey color scheme did nothing for me either.  It is a nice deck to have in a collection and there is no reason it wouldn't work well in a reading either.   Click here for pictures   or here to return   Please use your browser's back button to return from pictures   Review Copyright 1998 by Gina M. Pace