Yet with time and reflection, the Dark Wood Tarot could help us heal from deep within, to restore us once more from the hurts of the past, to deal with the troubles of now, and also to ease what is yet to come. Our dark sides are often painful, that’s why we try not to ‘go there’. The spreads within the book make you stop and think and think hard. Whilst you can still use the Dark Wood Tarot as you would most other decks, the allure of the way this one is designed is to help us change our usually positive yet cautionary way of reading and to get right down to the dark side of our lives the side we rarely dare to venture into. The beginning of the book helps you to read the cards from a darker perspective, to treat each card’s shadow side as you would a reversal in other decks. I like this layout, but it may not be for everyone.
The book is laid out in a way I find appealing, the card descriptions being at the back and the spreads towards the front. The front images of the cards, whilst they look shiny, I feel they have a subtle texture which helps the cards to not stick together during use…this doesn’t stop the lively ones from jumping out though! The olive green and black colour palette speak of darkness and evil queens and has a glossy finish to enhance them. The card backs have a stunning gothic design, the style for which Abigail Larson is renowned for. The card stock is light and easy to handle. Each card is depicted as a full-page image which, combined with the gloss of the page, makes the images shine and contrasts nicely with the more muted finish of the images on each card. The book is just divine, its glossy pages give it a luxurious feel.
DARK WOODS TAROT FULL
Dark Wood Tarot Six of WandsĪs we reach to open the magnetically fastened box of tarot delights, note Red Riding hood on the lid she looks awfully like Sasha, don’t you think, with her long brunette locks and big brown eyes? As you pull back the lid you will find inside a beautiful full colour guidebook and the accompanying deck of tarot cards. In her deck, The Dark Wood Tarot, we are being lured into the darkest of forests to meet with the shadow side of the familiar faces and creatures we all thought we knew. “The Dark Wood Tarot is a traditional Rider-Waite-Smith style deck, but it arrives at your fingertips with an extra dose of delicious darkness,” says Sasha Graham.Īnd it does. In her deck, Sasha has envisioned the darker side of the fairy tale realm –not the cutting your toes off so your foot fits the glass slipper kind of darkness – but the kind where the shadows follow and watch you even in the darkest of areas, the darkness of our own shadows that belong to each and every one of us. Inside the Dark Wood Tarot box, with guidebook But whilst the fairy tales we have all grown up with were wonderfully light and fluffy, they were far from the way they were originally written and told. Whilst residing in this beautiful part of America she decided to create a Fairy Tale style Tarot Deck alongside award-winning gothic artist Abigail Larson. Once upon a time in the Catskills of New York lived a Tarot Diva we all know as Sasha Graham. The Dark Wood Tarot by Sasha Graham and Abigail Larson Reviewed by Jennifer If you love what I do and would like to support me, you can send me tips over at. He also harmonizes well with Ethereal Visions, another deck that I’ve been personally eyeing. However, I’ve also discovered that aside from shadow work, he’s also rather good in specific readings pertaining to business and what not.
As I interviewed Aleks, he gave me the Devil card which pretty much gave me an idea that he is my devil’s advocate deck.
I will attest that yes, this deck is good for that. In short it is a deck that is good for shadow work and communication with the shadow self.
(Btw although the deck was nicknamed Boris, it eventually decided to okay being renamed Aleksander (Aleks for short) because Boris was a meme-able name for me and he wants to be taken seriously).Īnyway, this deck is primarily marketed as a shadow deck. What makes it more amusing is when I asked the deck to introduce itself, the first card that jumped out was the Lovers. I felt much “magnetic” attraction to this deck.
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