Customer Reviews

Animal Spirits Knowledge Cards™: Paintings by Susan Seddon Boulet

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I really wanted to like this deck. There are a few cards that are almost worth the price of the whole deck because of their beauty. But I find the interpretations to be off on many of the cards. I am also disappointed that almost half of the cards supposedly have the same keywords. You will get tired of seeing that cards deal with sexuality or feminine power. If that's your focus, go for it. Otherwise, find a more balanced deck.

I highly recommend Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals (it is the book and the cards, even though they don't make it obvious that you're getting both in the revised edition).

This other set comes with a deck and a small booklet. The artwork is nice (not great, but nice) and the interpretations fit more with what I've seen in other animal spirit/totem/medicine books.Animal Messages

I absolutely agree with the prior one-star review about the interpretations, but even more so than their being a bit off and monotonous, I was horrified when I found the interpretations actually ON the backside of the cards. I wanted to use the deck like a tarot deck, not seeing the face card, but with the interpretations on the back, you can't help but know what's on the other side.

The cards are so multifaceted that each will speak to the user in a different way, so interpretations are not really necessary. Although there are animals on each card, there is so much more in each art piece that the backside interpretation can't give a full meaning. That's for the user to see, and if he/she wants to know what a particular animal means, the most reliable source for that is Ted Andrew's Animal Speak. This deck would get a 5-star review from me if the rather thin interpretations were removed from the backside and a single art piece were put in its place on each card, so I could use the deck like a tarot deck.

These cards are wonderful for fans of Susan Seddon-Boulet! They are strong cards but flexible enough to shuffle easily. They are big enough for the details of the paintings show up but are small enough to fit into a purse or pants pocket. I take mine with me everywhere I go.

Not only are the animal paintings beautifully expressive with highly mystical and shamanistic, the explanations of the meaning of the paintings is well-written, clear, and concise. Additionally, the meanings of the cards are explained in ways that honor both Native American and pre-Celtic Shamanism paradigms.

The price is more than fair for what you get. And the cards make a GREAT gift, too, giving guidance and direction in a way that harmonizes without contradiction of any mainstream religion, so it is a good gift for practically everybody!

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The animal's paintings of Susan Seddon Boulet are delightful invitations to encounter these archetipal dimensions inside us. Animals get us in touch with our instinctual dimensions, part of our totality.
Boulet's visionary art talks to our souls.

As someone interested in the development of intuition and clairvoyancy by means of cards I was very attracted by the animal spirits pictured by extraordinary artist Susan Seddon Boulet. I ordered the pack and I am totally satisfied. It is true that they printed the animal's name and meaning on the back of each card - what should not have been done - but it is a minor problem. Whenever you shuffle, just do not look too much at the back of the cards, in order to get a really random picking.

And anyway, what is written is not too much of a help for the intuitive reader. Soon you will be finding your own specific (divinatory) meanings, - like your own alphabet - for each of the cards, as they elicit different feelings from deep inside your own soul.

The fact that some cards definitely picture diverse mystical traditions (such as Egyptian, Native North American, Tropical Amazonian, African, Hindustani, etc) makes these cards even richer. I am already practising with the "animal spirits" and it has been fabulous. A gift, indeed, - of the gods.

Susan Seddon Boulet is a remarkable artist who truly captures the heart and spirits of the animals she portrays in these cards. These are one of the best tarot-type cards I have found. Even if one does not believe or use tarot cards, these are worth it just for the art.

I enjoyed other Animal Spirit cards and, Susan Seddon Boulet's paintings so I ordered these through Amazon. I was not disappointed. Each card holds numerous references to background lore on the animal or subject it depicts. I am continually amazed at the detailed artwork that Susan Seddon Boulet put into her art pieces and it makes me a bit sad that she is no longer with us.

The knowledge the cards impart are just fun for me, they usually relate to something in my life in a positive way. I think we can learn a lot from animals, Native American stories, mythology. The cards have inspired me to look up further information about subjects mentioned.

Animals are wonderful, and thoroughly enjoy them. I must tell you I have loved her work for years and these animals are some of her best work.