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    The Wildwood Tarot

    by Mark Ryan and John Matthews


    with illustrations by Will Worthington
    Deck Review by Elizabeth Hazel, QJ Editor
    Get out the dribble bibs
    and drool cupsheres another deck featuring the
    scrumptious artwork of Will
    Worthington., artist of the
    Druidcraft Tarot. Here he creates in a slightly different style
    that owes more to graphic
    novels and less to portraiture.
    Okay, Will, you had me at
    hello.

    creatures of lake and


    stream. The tiny wren
    representing the Page of
    Arrows shows how a tiny
    singer can have a great
    song.
    The pip cards are reoriented to the idiom of the
    forest. Each card includes
    a descriptor, for example,
    the Two of Stones is
    Challenge. Sometimes
    these are close to the
    equivalent tarot card,
    while others wander far
    afield in a good way.

    This deck is an outgrowth


    of the Greenwood Tarot (1996),
    drawn by Chesca Potter,
    which is now out-of-print and
    hard to obtain. The Wildwood
    Tarot lives up to its name, as the ideas and images presented
    in the deck emerge from the primeval woodlands, the great
    forests where so many European legends and adventures take
    place. Most faerie tales include an eventful walk through a
    forest where the hero or heroine encounters any number of
    unusual characters and creatures. Many of these are included
    in the deck.
    While the Wildwood Tarot follows the structural armature of
    a tarot deck, the internal organization and divinatory meanings suggest the originality of an oracle deck. Its based on the
    pagan Eight-Fold Path or the Wheel of the Year. The suits
    relate to the seasons: the Time of the suit of Arrows (Air element) runs from Imbolc to Beltane; the Time of Bows (Fire,
    from Beltane to Lammas), the Time of Vessels (Water, from
    Lammas to Samhain), and finally the Time of Stones (Earth,
    from Samhain to Imbolc). The suits are rough equivalents of
    tarot suits, and the imagery and meanings are well-considered
    departures from the tradition. The characters of the trump
    suit have seasonal relationships on the Wheel of the Year that
    integrate them with specific suits.

    The entire spectrum of trump characters has been reimagined and renamed. The High Priestess becomes the
    Seer, the Hermit is the Hooded Man (with symbolic devices
    that suggest the Holly King), and the Hanged Man is transformed into the Mirror, an image of a mermaid holding a
    crystal ball.
    Lets cut to the chase. Neo-pagans will love this deck.
    The book is spot-on with its Sabbat and seasonal associations, making this a superior tool for work in sacred circles.
    The artwork is exquisite and there isnt a bad card in the
    bunch. Meditating with these cards or including them on an
    altar or in spell work will be a pure pleasure. This should be
    at the top of the list for Yule gifts this year. This deck gets a
    standing ovation as a glorious addition to the body of tarot.

    Book by Mark Ryan and


    John Mattthews, card
    illustrations by Will Worthington. 78-card deck
    with 160 pg paperback
    book in box. Sterling
    Ethos, 2011. $19.95.

    The Court Cards are elementally-related animals. The Arrows courts are birds, the Stones are large forest animals, the
    Bows feature smaller forest critters, while the Vessels are

    ATA Quarterly JournalSummer 2011 page 28

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