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The Hanson Roberts Tarot This is illustrated by Mary Hanson-Roberts and the instruction booklet is written by Stuart R Kaplan. This will be a well-known deck for those of you who are familiar with tarot cards. It's a traditional structure deck with King, Queen, Knight and Page on each of the Suits, and it sticks closely to the symbolic format first created with the Rider Waite Deck, using closely allied symbolism and structure. However, the illustrations are much more detailed on this deck and the cards themselves contain a helpful and pretty use of colour.
The instruction book is reasonably comprehensive. On Majors you get a fairly thorough description of the concept of the card and the symbolism in the image plus a divinatory meaning (keywords) and reversed meaning. The Minor Arcana follows the same format though there is less information. The only spread included is the Celtic Cross. All in all, an extremely good beginner's deck. Review by Jan ---------------------- Here's Pam: "I have had this deck for several years and I like it. I use it a lot. It has a very "friendly" feeling to it and never hits you with blasts of negativity, even if parts of its message have to do with negative events or people." --------------------- Purchase the Hanson Roberts Tarot Deck. Back to Reviews. |
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Almost
all of the cards have flowers or vegetation included in the images, and
the illustrations are evocative and thought-provoking. I particularly
like the Rods in this deck - these are all flowering staffs where the
blossoms are generally closed with the notable exception of the Ace, where
exotic flowers bloom against a sun-streaked sky in front of a fairy tale
castle. One criticism I would make of the illustrations (and this a somewhat
endearing one) is that several of the male figures seem to have lost their
necks!