White Witch Tarot

Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: White Witch Tarot by Maja D’Aoust, Boxed set of 22 Cards and Book, Published by REDFeather Publishing, US $24.99. UK  £22.99 ISBN: 978-0-7643-5367-3

Attractive black and glinting gold box has magnetic clip to safely hold the contents of instruction book and 22 Major Arcana cards with gold leaf edges, based on the Rider-Waite-Smith system with traditional titles. The artwork is white and gold pen sketching on black. The more you look into the art, the more you see of faces, birds, hands, animals, landscapes, and quite clever and magical, as things are not as they seem! 

 

So how do we read from this deck? We choose 3 cards. The first card, we call ‘The Protagonist’ which represents the positive forces, the second, we call ‘The Antagonist’ which represents the negative forces, and the third unites the first two to balance, resolve and reconcile. After performing a reading, a meditation is recommended to imagine you are in another time and place and how the reading might look from afar. 

The Californian author, Maja D’Aoust describes this deck as a “mental adventure”. She has a masters in transformational psychology and is a practicing witch known as the Witch of the Dawn. She is the author of: The Witch’s Bestiary, The Occult I Ching, Familiars in Witchcraft and Astrology of the Shadow Self. 

I found this exclusively Major Arcana Tarot deck fascinating! It is reduced to skeleton style basics with plenty of shape-shifting, and a direction that inspires hard, deep thought. Using the words that accompany each card, there is a strong mix of meaning and ideas. The meditation is a scrying from a different perspective that provides distance from one’s problems. I think it is darker than the whiteness described, with potential for strong negativity in places. 

Review by Wendy Stokes https://wendystokes.co.uk