Well, I hate to say it, but this is about the most useless tarot deck I have ever encountered.  The artwork is unimaginative and uninspired, the symbolism and meaningfulness of the cards is simply not present, and the artist and author have no concept of tarot as far as I can determine.

The traditional suits of cups, rods, swords and pentacles are used, but the artist and author don't even seem to grasp those concepts, for they have an eight-pointed star in the pentacles, which I found highly irritating.  First-year Latin students would recognize the prefix pent as meaning "five."

Every card itself has the most meager representation of the typical Rider-Waite symbolism, barely enough to make the card recognizable.  Then they stick a unicorn in it.  I could see if the card's meaning was altered to incorporate a unicorn into the actual design, but this is just unicorns stuck in the pictures to make it a unicorn tarot.

The colors used are bland and the talent displayed by the artist is weak.  The cards are standard tarot sized and shuffle about as easily as the Rider deck, so its use is acceptable that way.  However, I was really disappointed by this deck, I felt the opportunity to enlarge on the extraordinary myths of the unicorn from all the different cultures of the world was ignored in favor of a typical high school girl's fantasy.

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Review Copyright 1998 by Gina M. Pace