Egyptian Tarot: Mini Tarot Cards – 9 Sept. 2003

Perfect and cute

Egyptian mini-tarot:A cute little deck (and it IS little, smaller than any pocket tinned decks) which looks lovely.You may choose, as I did, to colour the sides with a felt tip marker as they are not black like the edges. They look very cool when this is done, and if you don’t like the box they fit very nicely into a reasonably-priced Egyptian-themed tin you can buy on amazon. Just search for ‘Azeeda 95mm Thoth Egytian God metal hinged tin’.As for readings, well the first thing you should know is that the strength and justice cards are swapped from the Rider-Waite-Smith for some unknown reason, so Strength is card 11 and Justice is card 8. Not that it really matters when you’re reading. Who reads the numbers on the majors anyway?The main problem with this deck is that the English section of the accompanying booklet is misprinted. Instead of explaining all of the major arcana, only the first page of that list is printed. What should be the rest is wiped due the minor arcana being printed twice. Didn’t they proofread this?This means you must already be familiar with the RWS before you can read the deck. This isn’t a major problem for me, but it does mean that this deck has a fundamental flaw in terms of it’s marketing, because otherwise it would make a perfect gift/novelty present for someone who didn’t necessarily know about tarot already. As it is, this for experts only, because not only are the major arcana not explained in the little white book, but the names of the major arcana aren’t even printed on the cards. Even if you’re very conversant with the RWS, a few of them take a little working out at first glance.They missed a trick there. It might’ve been a great little ‘stocking filler’ present for any friends interested in Egyptology but new to Tarot otherwise. As it is, it’s really not. So 1 star off for this deck and booklet being so uninformative it seems almost deliberately obscure.

weil es sonst kein ägyptisches Tarot gibt. Die hier wiedergefundenen Zeichnungen sind sehr anschaulich. Allerdings ist es etwas sehr klein ...

karten sind doch recht klein hatte gedacht diese wären größer ansonsten ist es in ordnung habe die karten gebraucht bestellt für 8 euro