Soul Cards I deck review

by Deborah Koff-Chapin

Soulcards is a deck of images with no accompanying suggestions as to meanings for the cards.  I feel this is important to emphasize, as many people are accustomed to having a guidebook at least hint at an idea for an image.

The guide book has the following table of contents, so as you can see you are not entirely on your own to figure out what to do with the deck.

Instant Reading, Preparation, Combinging SoulCard Decks, Selecting the Cards, Integrating the Images, Working with Others, The Genesis of SoulCards

It offers a couple of layouts for divination: Past, Present, Future; Body, Mind, Soul; and Challenge, Gift.

This deck will make you work for your interpretations. This can be helpful in developing your creative intuitive mind. The variety of imagery is such that you will likely find imagery that is both comforting and confronting within it.

 

Soulcards I by Deborah Koff-Chapin

The Sun

The Sun

Vitality & Joy

freedom, energy, renewal, celebration, enthusiasm, enlightenment

Spiritsong Tarot by Paulina Cassidy

Royo Dark Tarot deck review

(suitable for adults only)

This deck has extremely well-done art.  Some images match the traditional meanings of the cards better than others.  It is a deck that I feel should come with a whole string of Trigger Warnings, such as nudity, violence, cutting, bondage, and so on.  You may find it useful as a shadow work deck.

We have the Major Arcana, as well as the suits – chalices, swords, wands, pentacles.  The guide book, being a Lo Scarabeo deck, is in five languages (English, Italian, Spanish, French, German).  The cards are a reasonable size that fit well in the hand and are flexible enough to shuffle easily.

From the guide book:

The Royo Dark Tarot is born from the ashes of the Black Tarot, as illustrated by Luis Royo and first published by Fournier in 1998. At the same time it is an evolution and the completion of its parent deck.

… Considered among the greatest, if not the greatest, master of Dark Fantasy art, Royo represents a violent and cruel universe where torment and bliss, poetry and desperation are difficult to conceive one without the other.

Royo Dark Tarot edited by Pietro Alligo (suitable for adults only)

The Witch

The Witch

Confidence, knowledge, skill, responsibility, and experience

controlling personal destiny, communication, power to make changes, problem solving, initiative, diplomacy

Green Witch Tarot by Ann Moura