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If you have actually ever walked down the aisle of a bookstore and suddenly stopped in your tracks when a cover captures your attention because of its gothic-fairytale, dark-academia-fantasy vibes, then you should have a copy of the Dark Wood Tarot on your rack. Written by the well-informed and experienced Sasha Graham, with art by the incredibly talented Abigail Larson, whether you are a tarot consumed collector, are asking yourself "what is tarot?", or simply like quite fantasy things, I can't suggest this deck enough.
So when I was strolling down the main aisle at my local Books-A-Million and this deck banshee screeched to me that I should have it, I didn't question it. The Latest Info Found Here got the last copy on the rack and let the strange hooded woman with her lantern brightening the shadowy forest behind her take me by the hand and lead me into the Dark Wood.
Now that I've gotten to invest an excellent deal of time with this 78 card, Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) design set, (which is a thing fellow tarot fans will understand and if you're side eying the screen like I'm a couple of cards short of a deck just roll with it), and the full-colour, immersive manual, I feel like I can lastly compose a review that will do this work of tarot mastery justice.
If the quote from The Empire Strikes Back on the second page of the guidebook doesn't put you at ease with it's popular culture familiarity, the simple to follow manual that strolls you detailed through things, will. As someone who has more than 60 plus books (yes, I really counted up till that point LOL) on tarot and other various methods of prophecy, and near to 20 private tarot decks (runes were my puppy love, however never fear, I make sure my tarot collection will catch up!) I should state that the order in which they put the guidebook together (I'm still swooning over the art and all the information), is incredibly easy to use.
We were all there as soon as, complete tarot newbies, without any freakin' clue what tarot is, aside from something you've seen in the films. And the absence of info on how to utilize a specific tarot deck, or what in the hell all the various signs on each of the cards implies, can be extremely daunting when you're very first beginning out.