33 of 36 people found the following review helpful  Take A Closer Look - Wow, July 26, 2010 This review is from: Sun and Moon Tarot [With Booklet] (Cards) Illustrator Vanessa Decort has created a stunning yet simple deck with her Sun And Moon Tarot. This latest offering from U.S. Games looks rather plain at first glance but on close inspection, there is a richness and complexity that draws you in and lends new, subtle nuances to your tarot readings. Decort describes the deck this way: "The Sun And Moon Tarot considers universal archetypes and cultural symbols, and also incorporates the artist's own personal symbols." The deck is comprised of the standard 78 cards, with Majors, Minors and Courts. Based on the Thoth deck, it stays true to the titles that Aleister Crowley used (ex: 7 of Pentacles - Failure; Art - Temperance; Princes and Princes rather than Knights and Pages). I've always been somewhat intimidated by the Thoth deck but Decort has taken that influence and infused it with an almost playful, childlike essence. This could be because she has a background as an illustrator for children's books or perhaps she... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you?  
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful A refreshing new take on Thoth's Tarot, July 14, 2010 This review is from: Sun and Moon Tarot [With Booklet] (Cards) Sun and Moon Tarot is a new deck inspired on the classic Thoth tarot, created by Vanessa Decort. However, her surrealistic yet lively artwork manage somehow manage to simplify the classic tarot while maintaining most of its mysticism, making it more accessible to everyone. Somehow, I had excluded this deck from my wish list, so it took me by surprise. I bought it just based on the few pictures I was able to find in the Internet. Suffice to say that I'm glad that I did so, since it is not often that you can get your hands in a new reinterpretation of the classic Thoth Tarot. The cards in this deck are bordered white. The imagery in these cards often incorporates faceless human figures in lively surrealistic scenes. The symbols found in the Thoth Tarot can also be found in these cards such as the Hebrew Alphabet and planetary associations on the Major Arcana, and elemental symbols on the Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana are numbered with roman... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful  Sun and Moon Tarot Review, November 6, 2011 This review is from: Sun and Moon Tarot [With Booklet] (Cards) The title, Sun and Moon Tarot, conjures celestial images, thoughts of outer world versus inner world, masculine and feminine, and, of course, two Major Arcana cards. In looking through the deck, it is unclear to me why it is so titled. There don't seem to be any obvious references to celestial bodies, light and dark, God and Goddess, or inner and outer worlds. The deck does have a sense of universality; we are all different, and yet all one. Perhaps that is what Vanessa Decort was trying to convey with her heavenly title; that we are all the same under the sun and the moon. Unlike many tarot artists, Vanessa Decort is both a tarotist and an artist. Her first introduction to tarot was the Crowley Thoth Harris deck. According to the deck's accompanying materials, Decort designed the deck "to deepen her understanding of tarot's messages". It was her goal to incorporate in Sun and Moon Tarot "universal archetypes and symbols from many cultures". The colors of Sun... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews Was this review helpful to you? | 
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