Earth Moon Magick The Tarot of Sacred Kingdoms - Moon Tarot Cards – 78-Cards Tarot Deck with Guide Book – Oracle Cards for Spiritual and Shadow Work, Perfect for Beginner Include Guidebook

These are absolutely stunning cards! Some reviewers say they’re too dark—I think it gives them a magical, mystical, deep feeling. I don’t care if they were designed by AI—I like the illustrations. Some reviewers complain they’re not a version of the traditional Rider-Waite deck designs, i.e., there are no wands, swords, pentacles, or cups in the illustrations—frankly, I like that; for some reason I always felt bound, hemmed in by those traditional designs; these enable me to draw much more on my own inner-knowing to interpret. The cards are a nice size—comfortable in my hands. And the packaging is gorgeous and sturdy. My only complaint is that the text in the booklet is really, REALLY tiny and very hard to read unless I’m in really good light. Even then it’s a challenge. But all in all, I think this is my favorite of all the tarot and oracle decks I have. I felt an instant connection to them. I’m very pleased with this purchase—not inexpensive but worth it to me.

I made this selection because the visual presentation hinted at outstanding quality. By my reckoning, I was right. What I didn't know until receipt of these beauties is that these cards would not only engross the divining reader into the circumstances of the query, but also draw both seer and querent into the dream world imagery of the Sacred Kingdom so aptly named. This Tarot set literally pulls you in whether you like it or not, the magnet that it is. The set creators have a highly refined sense of phantasm, so much so that the deck evokes foreshadowing, fantasy, foresight, and one of the strongest impressions of bonafide optimism simultaneously no matter the query outcome. The quality is superb, and the physical presentation of the deck and each card offers a matte reflection. The card edges are as black as the chosen stock yielding a firm statement of the deck’s intent – that the business end of Tarot is ultimately truth no matter the revelation. The drawings and imagery are attractive, and the diversity and bestiary of the card participants are a welcome and thoughtful touch. Out-of-the-box shuffling is smooth and feels natural and comfortable like good love. One almost wants to preserve the deck by not touching it, let alone using it regularly for clarification of life’s mysteries. Thoroughly resist that temptation if you feel it and do what you came to do. Allow this deck to impress, disclose, speculate, and captivate. I just might buy a second deck and leave it virginal into perpetuity.

I’ve been looking at this deck for a while and finely decided to get it. It’s stunning! I love the artwork and feeling the cards invoke. These days so many decks have metallic edges, which are beautiful, but this deck’s edges are black matte which adds to this deck’s beauty.

This deck is stunning! The artwork is beautiful. It is my one of two soul decks. I can't get into any of the Rider-Waite-Smith decks so when I happened a upon this deck it was love at first sight. I highly recommend it. It's got It's own vibe but it's simple and to the point. Clear and direct. No mess no fess. It's my go too.

Pros: Each card has a detailed image (very important). Well made, thick, pretty, sturdy case, guidebook pages in unique parchment-look paper with tiny color image of each card. Cons: * Extremely over-priced * Many of the images are too dark to make out. * Many images have details that are far too small to see what they are. * Print in guide "book" is smaller than the tiniest small print of any label or contract. It's absurd how little the print is. Outrageous to call it a book of any kind. Who is supposed to be able to read this? You need a separate tarot reading to predict what the "book" might say! Overall, a very poor value for the high price. No, I absolutely would NOT buy it again.

Majestic and beautiful. It feels so good! Smooth! Smells great! Easy to learn, Feels light, and the little book is understandable to read.

Rating this fairly, as to quality, it's a solid four-stars for reasons I'll detail below, but that doesn't mean you should buy it, given how terribly overpriced it is. I found myself looking at this again, after having used a couple of book-style-box deluxe-packaged Llewellyn sets with the full-size quality-trade-paperback guidebooks that usually cost between $20 and $30, depending on sale-price and time of year. I found myself less inspired by the images than I had been when I first received it and first used it. I found myself noticing that these images weren't as thought-provoking as the cheaper sets with better packaging and much better guidebooks. And I found myself thinking that this is too much money for what you get. On the pro-side, this has lovely cards with dark images with dark themes along with a quality small-guidebook. On the con-side, the cards have a milk-style-glaze that makes them hard to use in lower-light-conditions such that you need bright lights to see the images, since they begin to get lost under that slightly beige-glaze in candlelight or lower-light. That does rather kill the mood, if you're using this to relax and journal or meditate. And then the guidebook is very small and harder to read and has less information than you'd get in a large guidebook. Often times, the reading of the guidebook is what prompts a person to journal or meditate or pray, and this guidebook doesn't result in that for me. I really don't have much to think about when using these cards, because the pictures are overly simple with too few props and too little context, and then the guidebook is too short and small to be very inspiring. At $50, this should have images with far more background, far more context, and far less focus on nothing but figures on thrones or figures standing in the foreground. It needs more so that people can use the cards many times and see something new each time, have something to focus on and something to spark their thought-process each time, and have an experience of always feeling that the cards helped them to focus anew. That can't happen when deck-imagery is too simplistic or too flat. And it should have a guidebook with enough writing to really make me think and even feel. But this has a small book with shorter entries. For religious purposes, if a person is using Tarot cards to divine the future, they need only have a book of meanings and a deck of cards with the names written on them. The $10 classic "Rider"-style deck will work perfectly, and there's a very popular set of guided tarot cards with a full-size guidebook that usually sells for between $10 and $18 that most people use for this purpose. I think that one's $10 every fall during the big sale-season and also on Prime Days, so why bother spending $50 if all you need is the cards with names on them and a basic picture along with a comprehensive guidebook? For divination, if that's part of your religious practice, this is a waste of money, because it won't actually serve you as well as an even simpler set with a far more comprehensive guidebook. But for journaling, for meditation, for self-guided-therapy, or for simply playing a game of "reading" a friend, the cards must have something for the mind to latch onto, so that the person using them can actually gain the therapeutic benefit from the "reading". And that won't happen with images lacking background-details. These are missing all the "props" and objects and plants and animals you should see in the scene with the people on the cards, which makes them less useful for most of the common uses people have for tarot cards these days. I found several Llewellyn tarot decks with wonderful and complex images and then a few Lo Scarabeo oracle decks that also have multi-layered images with lots of detail; and those all cost under $30 and usually under $20 for the oracle decks. And this made me think that I'd be wrong in recommending this deck, given how expensive it is for a deck you won't use very often, because the images and descriptions aren't thought-provoking. I truly love the artwork here, love the dark gothic feel that they have, and love the style of artwork. But they don't inspire me to think or feel when using them; and I think that's the core problem here. This isn't a deck you can use many times, to get many different feelings and ideas. It's very static and uninspiring. This is objectively a four-star set, for cardstock that's the next level down from the best but far above the worst and for a good small-size guidebook and for quality images that are more attractive than many drawn cards you can find and for having a wonderful dark gothic theme while also suffering the problem of not having a large-guidebook along with the problem of the cards having that milk-glaze-style coating that makes them hard to use in low-light-conditions because the images are too washed out to see unless you've got bright lights in the room. This is objectively better than average but also not quite up to the best we see out there these days. And, if you're rich, it would be great to have. However, you can get thicker cardstock and better outer packaging and a better large-size-guidebook all from the average Llewellyn set, for half the cost of this set; and that shouldn't be the case for a card set costing $50. In a world of really wonderful card-sets, this should be better than it is for what it costs. So I give it the deserved four-star rating for being above average while also being below the top-standard set by the top-brands, and recommend that you look at the customer images for a lot of different sets to see if you can find a similarly dark-themed set that is more inspiring with more complex images and a large-size fully-written guidebook, before spending $50 on these. I'm not allowed to make specific recommendations anymore, and reviews containing recommendations are rejected these days. But I can tell you to look at the top brands with deluxe-sets that are shaped like books and that sit on the shelf like a larger book and that come with a full-size quality-trade-paperback guidebook and then look at the images on the cards to see which one really speaks to you. It's not just about what you like the look of, in the moment you're shopping for yourself or a for a loved-one. It's about the quality of the image-layering, where some card-sets have very flat images with very little layering of animals and plants and objects and context for you to think about, and then other card-sets have a lot of background information to catch your attention in different readings either weeks or even years apart. The goal is to be caught by the image, or why bother having an image to begin with. These are lovely, but they don't give you much to think about or feel.

This deck is absolutely stunning. Cardstock is thick and fabulous. Love the artwork i have hundreds of decks ranging from mass market to indie and i think this has to be one of my favorites. The energy of each card is spot on and very modern picture of the traditional meaning. The only possible critique i have is that it’s “tone “ is slightly off. I’m not sure if it’s a printer thing or not but colors are very dark and a little difficult to make out on some cards. I think this would b my absolute favorite of any deck I’ve ever purchased if that was fixed. Still stunning tho. I really hope this creator doors more decks in the future because they totally nailed it with this deck. HUGEEEEE FAN!!