Customer Reviews

Tarot of Gemstones and Crystals

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I have been collecting tarot decks for the last several years. Although the decks are all considered "traditional" the themes of the pictures/artwork are sometimes not to my taste. This deck uses beautifully done photos of stones and gems with each photo showing outstanding examples of each stone often in multiple stages from natural to fully cut/faceted and finished.

Rocks and gemstones have always drawn my attention and this special deck includes not only the more traditional card interpretations but the influences of the stones pictured, matching rather well the stone to the card. I now have the deck at work and draw a card each morning, reviewing the stone and card interpretations then leaving it standing next to my computer monitor to meditate on through the day.

The deck so intriged some of my fellow employees that they got their own deck and get together on their break each day to draw a card each and discuss the stones in terms of what is going on in their lives.

It has been interesting to watch people who might have been intimidated by a "tarot" deck walk by and want to join the discussion, drawn by the stones and the stone lore being discussed.

I ordered this deck to help combine my interests in crystals and in Tarot. It is a unique deck, consisting of photographs of the different gemstones. It's definitely unconventional, and not a deck for beginners, but it now serves a fun purpose in my professional readings. I ask clients to draw a card from the deck, and then explain the properties of the stone they drew. The results are very nice, many of the people draw stones that are special to them already! I recommend this deck as a novelty for collectors, and as a useful tool for readers to start off a reading with another deck. I do not think it is a good deck for doing a whole reading with, however.

I really like this deck. I love the photos of gemstones on each card. Tthese are better gemstone images than those on any of the decks designed for crystal work that I've seen so far. The Gemstone explanations in the little pamphlet are excellent. The Tarot is good too. Unless you have the minor arcana down pat it could be a bit difficult to do a traditional Tarot reading. I wish they had numbered the Major Arcana. I teach crystal healing and Crystal Deva Empowerments and I am starting to use this deck for Gemstone readings and for crystal healing guidance in the workshops and it is working very well.

This is the first tarot deck I have seen that correlates crystals to each of the major arcana and minor arcana. They used some very nice specimens in their photographs. The card stock seems a bit lighter than other decks and the cards don't hold up well after multiple shuffles. Seems better to mix them by hand. Some of the photos are really beautiful and others are on the drab side or the photos are not true to color.

We used these in a class and half of us had an allergic reaction to them - something in the varnish or ink I suspect. Might want to open them outside and air them out a bit first as they also smell a little funny.

This is the first deck I have seen where trump card #8 is Justice instead of Strength and card #11 is Strength instead of Justice.

The interpretations in the pamphlet are insightful so I think this deck is still worth getting.

These aren't even particular stunning pictures of gemstones; they look like you could find them in any book for rock enthusiasts. It's difficult to connect meaning to each stone, unless presumably you're very much a crystal person when it comes to divinatory meanings.

In other words, to me, I might as well have cardstock with the card names on them, and then spend some time looking through a Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals for all I got out of this deck.

Card stock is mediocre.