Vision Quest Tarot [Cards]

Gayan Sylvie Winter (Author), Jo Dose (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1999

Discover humanity's connection with the cosmic forces of nature through Native American legends. The soothing imagery and spiritual symbols on the cards will bring you to a new understanding of our place in the cycle of life.

Product Details

• Cards: 1 pages
• Publisher: U.S. Games Systems Inc. (March 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572811978
• ISBN-13: 978-1572811973
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 3.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #285,219 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the most beautiful deck of tarot cards, March 31, 2000

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SC (US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vision Quest Tarot (Cards)

This tarot deck centers around Native American themes. Some of the card names are changed (e.g. the four suits become four elements) A small black-and-white intruction booklet is included. This is my favorite tarot deck of all. All 78 cards, including minor arcana are uniquely and beautifully illustrated with detailed and colorful scenes of people, animals, and nature. Unlike most decks, equal attention is given to the art on the minor cards. I'd say this is definitely a thousand times better than the Unicorn Tarot Deck by Susann Star, which I also own. I don't know why it isn't more popular, except maybe that they didn't choose the most attractive card for the cover. If you buy this there's no way you'll be disappointed. I found this deck by visiting a website that reviewed over 200 tarot decks (Aeclectic Tarot)and chose this one as one of two favorites. (as of the last time I checked)

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful, intuitive tarot deck., March 4, 2002

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elwen - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vision Quest Tarot (Cards)

The Vision Quest Tarot is a Native American themed deck. Although its suits and court cards have been renamed, the meanings mostly follow the standard Rider-Waite interpretations. The artwork is focused on natural scenes, and the traditional suit symbols have been modified to fit this theme. There is Air (feathers), Water (bowls and other clay containers), Fire (arrows and torches), and Earth (woven baskets and plants). The pictures on each card are detailed and somewhat ethereal, creating a very peaceful, organic atmosphere, but they don't go overboard with symbolism and meaning. There is a simple keyword for each card, and the feeling you get from the picture is more important than what you actually see.

For example, one of the most striking cards is Eight of Water, "Stagnation". There is a stack of eight bowls of different shapes, most of them are chipped and faded. They sit amidst mud and puddles, and the coloring is all grey and earth tones. The mood created by the picture perfectly matches the keyword and easily conveys its meaning to you.

This deck comes with the standard "little white booklet" that details the card meanings and offers a few sample layouts to try. However, there must have been an error in the printing I have wherein the meanings for the Earth suit are printed twice, and the meanings for Air are not there at all. But that just means I'll be working more from my own interpretations of the cards, and with this deck, that is just fine.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly magical, July 5, 2005

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James L. Nammack (Lexington, Kentucky USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vision Quest Tarot (Cards)

The Vision Quest Tarot was created by Gayan Sylvie Winter and Jo Dosé in 1998. It is published by AGM Agmüller in Switzerland, and distributed by U.S. Games in this country.

The seventy-eight card pictures for this deck are all based on themes from the Native American Indian tradition. The artwork depicts Native American Indians engaged in traditional activities, and these pictures serve to define the meanings of the cards.

Each of the pip cards has a single word printed at the bottom, and that is the meaning of the card. The meanings of the Major Arcana and court cards are contained in the instruction booklet.

When I first started using this deck a few years ago, I had mixed feelings about it. I liked the earthly artwork and the spiritual quality of the card meanings, but I had difficulty doing intelligible readings with it.

During the intervening years I discovered the magic of using the combined meanings of Tarot cards dealt in pairs. Typically, I would deal eighteen cards, nine pairs in all. Most of the time, a card meaning would be only one or two or three words long to facilitate combining its meaning with that of another card. In this way, a pair of cards produced a new, systhesized single meaning.

I recently rediscovered the Vision Quest Tarot, and started using it again. This time, however, the cards came alive. Their one-word card meanings were ideal for my eighteen-card layout of nine pairs. As I used the nine-pair layout, I noticed a quality that was missing from other decks I had used in this way. Amazingly, the nine pairs of Vision Quest cards rendered divinations that answered each question in a logical, linear fashion. The systhesized meaning of each pair was like a sentence in a paragraph, with one sentence serving as the foundation for the next. Each pair produced an orderly progression of thought from one pair to the next.

This was astounding. In all the other decks I had used in this way (and there were a few), there was no logical or narrative flow from one pair to the next. The nine pairs of cards would provide a comprehensive answer to the question, but not in a smooth narrative fashion as with the Vision Quest cards.

I have no clue as to why the Vision Quest Tarot alone answers questions in this way, but it does.

With all that said, the relevance of the one-word card meanings is sometimes difficult to comprehend. As with all decks I have ever seen, you will need to use your imagination and intuition to flesh out the meanings of the cards into more fully realized statements.