Ask the Witch - TAROT WISDOM FROM A TIMELESS COVEN A DECK OF CARDS, WISE WITCHES, A PINCH OF MAGIC, AND A MANUAL TO LEARN HOW TO READ TAROT CARDS! The witches in the deck are wild old ladies, ancient fairies, decadent goddesses, nocturnal creatures, ladies of chaos, girls of destiny and intrepid explorers who come from various traditions — beyond the mist or under the moon — to welcome the questions of passers-by. The box set contains the full deck of 78 Witches’ Tarot cards and an accompanying manual to decipher their divinatory messages. About Ask the Witch Tarot cards The Empress - CERIDWEN POSITIVE: creativity, motherhood, healing, beauty, dedication. NEGATIVE: laziness, excess, envy, sterility, chaos. She is the protector of affection, a dispenser of a magic that transforms all of those who receive it. The Empress’s greatest teaching is not one of personal power but one of completing one’s mission, just as a son is to his mother. The HIEROPHANT - SARASWATI POSITIVE: education, faith, forgive-ness, morality, guidance. NEGATIVE: obtuseness, bigotry, spiritual block, prejudice. The most powerful learning tool, in fact, is writing. It has etched into the minds of many generations what has been, and it allows them to imagine what can be. Saraswati is eloquent and magnanimous: she suggests to her disciples, “Study your origins. Drink from the spring. It is the only way to change your future and redirect a course of events when it becomes necessary.” The Lovers - TITANIA POSITIVE: love, choices, union, romanticism. NEGATIVE: instability, sentimental-ism, impulsiveness, frivolity. Above all, love, with all its wonder, strangeness, and difficulties, is the ultimate step that leads us toward others and requires us to make choices. In the Land of Fairies, just as in the land of love, you can decide whether you want to blindly follow a selfish whim or whether you will use a truthful eye to recognize what is in front of you as you discover your most intimate part in another. Using your Ask the Witch Tarot Cards This deck is based on the RWS system but with a unique trait: it is full of witches from all over the globe, traveling on brooms, in their cauldrons, coming out of the trees and dark waters, brandishing blades and hiding bags of magic herbs, all the time enhancing the symbolism of the Arcana with their spells. In the 22 cards of the Major Arcana are witches that may be famous or that we may be meeting for the first time. They are god-desses, spirits, great enchantresses, woodland creatures, creatures of the oceans and of other worlds that can be perceived on the edge of our own. But they are also mortals, considered witches because of traditions and the time they lived in. They have advice for us that they are willing to reveal if we will heed them; and although the witches represented here are all female, we wanted to leave a certain amount of ambiguity in the Minor Arcana so that everyone can identify with them. Includes: 78 Cards and 128-Page Guidebook Author: Francesca Matteoni Dimensions: 16.4 x 6.1 x 12.2 cm Weight: 666g