Not to be confused with the Tarot of the Witches by Fergus Hall, which was featured in the James Bond movie "Live and Let Die," this deck has a very strong neo-pagan influence, but it is not as lightweight as the Robin Wood Tarot.  Imagery is strong, and there are no borders around the cards.  A lot of the cards have a tremendous intuitive impact.

This is another deck which has a strong amount of nudity in it and so is not one to do readings with for just anyone.  The author ties the cards in with Qabbalistic theory and belief and I feel that if you do not follow or ascribe to these theories and beliefs there is a limit to what you will get from the cards.  I do not follow the Qabbalah myself and there are some cards which purely mystify me.

The suits used are Cups, Swords, Pentacles and Rods, although there are NO titles on the Minor Arcana cards, so you really could call them sticks if you wanted to.  Just the number is shown.  Which is good, if you have already learned to call the suits something else, you don't need to change the name.....

All the Major Arcana cards have two different colored spheres shown in the edges of each picture, which will totally lose anyone who hasn't read up a LOT and learned that they are stylistic representations of the Sephiroth and the paths connecting them.  I myself only recently learned this, and I've had the deck two years now.  I believe that this deck would be best used by someone who bought BOTH books published in conjunction with it.  In this I fault Llewellyn's, because the book which they package as part of the deck-and-book-set is actually the second book in a pair which must be read together and they give no statement referring to the prerequisite.

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Review Copyright 1998 by Gina M. Pace