Dream Cards by Lo Scarabeo at House of Tarot

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Submitted By: Mary on 06/03/2006
The 78 cards in this deck are not traditional tarot and do not follow the normal tarot patterns (no fool, empress, wands, cups, etc.). Instead the cards are self-identified as \"dream inspirational\" cards. Each card represents some universal image or idea that might appear in a dream. You have everything from fruit to fire, telephone to tattoos.

The cards are assigned both meanings and reversed meanings that generally have some psychological connection to the image. For example, \"stairs\" is assigned the meaning of favorable opportunities, new interests, and news from afar; reversed, it means greedy ambitions, reckless actions, and confusion. Meanwhile \"jewelry\" is assigned short-lived joy, adulation, and lack of moderation; reversed stands for economic security, reassuring affection, and filial love.

The artwork has a MC Escher / Salvador Dali / dream-like feel with a few comic-book-ish big-breasted babes thrown in. It\'s interesting to see visual patterns repeated in different cards (lots of black and white checker, multi-colored stone floors, tree trunks, wings, faces composed of natural landscape, etc.) and each card seems to capture a moment in bigger story.

The enclosed booklet suggests patterns for using these cards to do readings, and the \"Dream Cards\" could easily be adapted for most other tarot reading lay-outs as well. The one big difference is the stand-alone quality of the cards, with no suits or arcana.

All in all, it\'s an interesting deck with lots of strange images to spark the imagination.

4 of 5 Stars!

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