The Fool's New Journey Tarot

Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: The Fool's New Journey Tarot - Sixty Triumphs for a New Dawn by John Matthews and Charles Newington. Boxed set of 60 cards and full colour Guidebook. Published by REDFeather Publishing (Schiffer Books) RRP US $34.99 

Consider your origin: you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante. 

Magnetic and drawer pull box reveals a new Tarot journey using 60 cards to portray the human condition (though my drawer could not be pulled and I realised the sleeve needed to be removed so the box would open!) The cards backs are The Fool in the midst of his journey, surrounded by clouds, moving full circle, half a mirror image not to show which way up the cards have been dealt. There are some exceptional spreads, a Two-Card, a Three-Card, and a Five-Card. 

In addition to the usual 22 RWS Majors, there are new titles interspersed amongst the traditional cards, such as The Questioner, Hope, Forgetting, Remembering, The Merry, The Diviner, The Clown, Healing, Eternity. The preface tells us of a concentration camp with Primo Levy reciting Dante’s Commedia to inmates. There are many poems, and a potted history of the Tarot and how the inspiration for a new deck came into being. The 38 new titles are added to the 22 traditional Trumps, but this deck does not include Court Cards or Minor Arcana cards. The old Major Arcana journey is given and, in the latter half of the book we have the new journey as a path working story and a new book will follow with greater clarity. There are keywords for upright and keywords for reversed meanings and 300 words of text for each card meaning. 

I enjoyed the very nice new artwork by Charles Worthington and was impressed by the very interesting new archetypes by John Matthews! They add to the depth of my readings. John Matthews is a historian and folklorist, and card deck creator for The Wildwood Tarot, The Tarot of Light and Shadow, and The Beowulf Oracle. Charles Worthington is a UK artist who provided illustrations for The Goblin Market Tarot.

Highly Recommended. It's a new vision that helps readers who are new, burnt out, off colour or just feeling uncreative, like me sometimes! Review by Wendy Stokes https://wendystokes.co.uk