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Product Identifiers
BrandDal Negro
MPN4760
GTIN9783898756297
UPC9783898756297
eBay Product ID (ePID)1034701911
Product Key Features
Narrative TypeNon-Fiction
Original LanguageEnglish
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicNew Age, Books, Tarot
Publication Year2014
GenreSpirituality
Dimensions
Item Weight0.97 pounds
Ratings and reviews
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- 02 Aug, 2016
Amazing deck!
The artwork and writings of Margarete Petersen are impeccable. This is an abstract tarot deck, but it's very beautifully done. Shift your vision ever so slightly and each time you see a card it reveals something new. The card-stock is like butter, it shuffles wonderfully, it's just a bit large for smaller handed readers. Though, it NEEDS to be big. You'd miss so much in the art if it were any smaller. It's a loving, very healing deck that has quickly risen to the TOP of my favorites list within my collection. I use it almost daily, for personal and professional readings. If you understand German, I suggest finding the German edition of this deck instead, as from what I'm told, the book is much bigger, comes in color, with large, full-page representations of the artwork and a much more detailed write up on each card (since it's not being translated). This, however, is still wonderful even in simple 'ole English. The only thing that could have been been changed here is how the deck is advertised. I did not see anything stating that it was a tuck box with a stapled-paper book. Apart from the line or crease at the top of the image (the only indication it's a tuck box, a part I missed initially), I would have been expecting a two-layered box (not sure the proper term, but with a lid that lifts off...) and with a glue-bound paperback book. Apparently there is another English version of this deck that comes this way. Another difference between that deck (the deck I THOUGHT this was) and what you'll get here is that there is a border on the backing of the card, as where the other version has the pretty painted border all the way up to the edge of the backing. It must just come from a different publishing house, or a different stock... Not sure. I'm still quite happy with my deck and wouldn't trade it for any other, but I didn't read these things anywhere in the description and it would have been nice to know before ordering. Also, I have seen it a bit cheaper on other UK sites, but it's so rare in the US, I was willing to pay a little extra when it went out of stock on those sites. Those are the only factors that make me give this a 4 star rating, when the deck itself really deserves 5. A note on that, though, this company is in Poland, so maybe they just didn't know how to write it up? They said it'd get to me in the States in 3 weeks and it arrived in less than 2! I'm very happy about that, as I was very highly anticipating its arrival. I hope more companies start to produce this in the US.... Every reader should have this in their collection!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 12 May, 2021
Fine art that takes you into new places with each card.
The trouble with tarot, especially if you want to read it for yourself, is that you get 'used to' the images and 'used to' associating and attributing particular sets of meanings for them. It's hard to find a tarot that opens readings out somewhere new, but the Petersen Tarot does this. The images are entirely original works of art. Most of these are expressionist abstract, working through colour, the Ace of Cups being a waterlily reminiscent of Monet, the Sun being an explosion of light. Some of these are difficult to read with a traditional reading, the 8 Cups, for instance, being a coastal ocean with deep rocks and a waterspout rising from them; others more easy, the 5 Feathers (Swords) showing a broken feather spouting blood, a woman falling under blades. All the images conceal hidden figures, outlines that slowly make sense, images of beasts, a theme of serpents, hunting weapons, which slowly rise out of the picture, revealing more and more over reading after reading. Major arcana 0 - ?18 are in a slightly different modernist style, not as fully abstract and most without the powerful colour shifts and some, I think, are less successful than the best of the minor arcana; however, some are stupendous. (Hierophant! Lovers! Moon!) Modern art is very much a matter of taste. Don't rush out and buy this without going to an online unboxing review which will show you each card; you may be disappointed if you don't have some idea of what to expect. But if you are not turned off by these cards (and there's a huge difference in style between, say, The Empress and Mother of Coins) then you will find new ways of using them, exploring the secret little figures that creep out of the paintwork, and new readings of the cards. It's necessary to point out that there is a female accent to many of these cards: Chariotess for Chariot, Crone for Hermit, among others. But all the cards take you somewhere new, which so few tarots do.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 20 May, 2022
Lovely images on the cards
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 26 Oct, 2017
Highly Recommended!
I got it in time The deck was well packaged 5 stars;-))Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 01 Jun, 2016
Beautiful!
I am so profoundly in awe with the art of this deck. It is strange and different and peaceful and strong, all at once.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
