Chrysalis Tarot

I pre-ordered this deck based solely on the few images I was able to find on the internet, and it quickly became one of my favorites. My intuition told me I would really connect with this deck, and I was right. The images are beautiful, incorporating nature elements, and are easy enough for beginners while still being very absorbing for more experienced readers. I love the color palette, which combines warm tones of amber and gold on edgings with beautiful jewel tones of blue, green, purple, and turquoise. The back of cards is a reversible image of butterflies and one of the most attractive I've seen in a long time. It's just a pleasure handling and viewing these cards from any angle. There is so much detail on every card, which might include any combination of humans, animals, insects, and flowers or other plants. Also there is Celtic design scrollwork incorporated on a number of the cards. The four suits are spirals (wands), mirrors (cups), scrolls (arrows), and stones (pentacles). The majors are renamed as Otherworld archetypes, with traditional name included on card, for instance: Phoenix as the Judgment card or Bella Rosa as the Devil. Another unique element of this deck is the court cards which are given another name readily identifying the nature of that character. Examples are: The Visionary/Knight of Scrolls and The Healer/Page of Mirrors. The deck comes in a lightweight cardboard cover (such as a standard deck of cards) with the Little White Book enclosed inside. The LWB is more than sufficient to describe the card images, neither being too brief or too wordy. You really almost don't need it, but I still like reading the creators' intended meanings as the concepts are very well thought out and expressed. Unless you prefer a plainer or more monochromatic color palette, I can't imagine anyone not connecting with this deck. Also, it has a very positive feel to it overall. Not cheerful in a false way--the five of stones (pentacles) still perfectly projects that card's despair, as do other cards which carry challenges. Guess what I'm trying to say is that this deck is not dark overall in tone. The cards are average size, and good quality card stock. For once, I wish the cards were larger, if only to make the images slightly bigger because there is so much detail to absorb. That is my one and only very tiny complaint. I'm hoping this deck will become popular enough that an alternate larger card version is published, which I would readily purchase.

I can't say enough good things about this deck. I have been collecting decks since 1976 & am a professional reader. I'm also an artist so I am very well aware of how much work goes into creating a tarot deck (that is why I have yet to create one & have stuck to the smaller Lenormand decks). The artwork of Holly Sierra is so lovely. When I first received the deck I kept looking through the images. I caught myself drooling several times. My normal thing is to immediately shuffle & ask "how will you & I get along" & pull cards. I didn't do that with this deck. It took me a week to do an actual reading with it. I was too busy examining the artwork over & over again. The detail is amazing, colors are so vibrant that they jump off the card, & on a black reading cloth the images pop with incredibly vibrancy and detail. Being a traditionalist I am not crazy about the renaming of most of the major arcana cards, new names for the 4 suits & also all new names for the court cards that vary from suit to suit. Based on the deviation from RWS tradition regarding the titles of the cards I would NOT recommend this deck for beginners. If you're a collector or a seasoned reader, then by all means do yourselves a favor & treat yourself to this deck. I plan on purchasing a second copy so I can keep it in pristine condition for the time when this deck goes OOP. I may even by a third copy and I have only purchased multiple copies of ONE other deck in my collection of over 200. That says a lot for the Chrysalis Tarot.

I have been following the progress of this deck off and on for the past few months on Facebook. Every time a new picture appeared, it seemed to have something nice to say to me. I did not need another tarot deck, especially one that uses different terminology that the standard Ryder-Waite. I'm still learning and I thought it might be nice to master one format before starting another. However, each time a new picture would appear on my screen I was more and more drawn to this deck. It was ordered before release and forgotten about. Then it arrived. WOW! This is a beautiful deck. The cards are the size of cards and fit gently into the hand. They are easy to hold and to shuffle. The art is gorgeous and each card tells the story it should. The very first reading gave me a wealth of information the two decks I usually use do not. This is a great deck! However, it barely fits into its box. Three tries of putting it away and it was finally there. I need to find a pretty bag or larger box to store it in and hope that I can find it when needed! Indeed, I would buy a larger box designed for the deck separately! Because the cards are so lovely, five stars. However, the packaging rates only one. This beautiful deck deserves a better box!!

Tuck box hard to open added ribbon to help with opening box, usual lwb, card stock average, backing picture beautiful and bright love that, front pictures blend in well with boarders, overall easy to shuffle fits in hand nicely

Adorable y muy positivo. Aporta al día un muy buen comienzo... Se lo recomiendo a todas las personas interesadas en profundizar su relación con su guía interior. Lecturas muy profundas y precisas. Muy intuitivo.

El empaque se ve sencillo caja de una baraja normal, esperemos ver el contenido, llegó rápido algo que se agradece, este también tiene una leyenda de Made un china...asi que hasta no probar las cartas podremos ver las 5 estrellas es por la super rapidez de envío no tardó ni 2 días

Dieses Tarotdeck habe ich sorgfältig ausgesucht und es hat meine Erwartungen erfüllt. Die Zeichnungen sind wunderschön. Die Zuordnung der Elemente und Bezeichnungen der Figuren haben mich angenehm überrascht, sie lassen mich noch einmal neu entdecken,wie viele Facetten möglich sind. Für experimentelle Charaktere wie mich, die auch schon Erfahrungen mit anderen Tarotkarten haben, lohnt sich das. Was mich freut, ist, dass auch die kleineren Zahlenkarten sehr oft Personen und Tiere auf den Bildern haben. Das ist so viel spannender als nur drei vier fünf Schwerter - die hier ohnehin in Schriftrollen umgewandelt sind, was im geistigen Luftelement durchaus Sinn macht. Ach ja - hier ist alles auf englisch, ich weiss nicht ob es das Deck auch mit deutschen Titeln gibt. Durchgehend sind in die Karten alle Motive mit keltischen Schmuckbändern eingearbeitet, auch wenn mystische Archetypen aus allen Kulturen vorkommen. Das war für mich der große Pluspunkt: Die Offenheit. Alle vier Elemente sind mit zarter Farbigkeit voneinander zu unterscheiden. Zu mir sprechen sie.

J'aime les jeux de tarot qui ont leur univers propre et qui apportent une vision nouvelle des cartes, notamment des mineures. Celui-ci est de ce type. Si vous êtes des habitués du tarot Rider Waite, vous serez un peu déstabilisés mais pas perdus. J'aime beaucoup les cartes de Cour, elles apportent réellement quelque chose de nouveau. Le livret est en anglais, vous pouvez aussi utiliser le site des auteurs pour apprendre les cartes (en anglais aussi) : il est vraiment précieux, précis... J'adoooorre le dos des cartes, les illustrations lumineuses, joyeuses. C'est un jeu très positif !