Alright, let’s get into it!

The Literary Tarot started as a Kickstarter campaign (as many indie tarot decks do). It promised to blend classic stories with tarot imagery, and it was being run by a nonprofit, so there was a promise to fund educational programs in underserved areas. All sounds good!

The campaign ended up taking 2 or slightly more years to fulfill, and instead of having something that backers were under the impression would be backer-exclusive, you were able to purchase it at a major book retailer here in Canada, and for a brief moment in time, you were able to purchase it for much less than what backers who had waited 2 years and needed to pay shipping costs that seemed inflated, had paid for it. I ended up snagging it this way- it was on super discount at Chapters/Indigo, and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. I had also wanted to back initially, but I think I missed the window for pledges.

Now the box for this deck is pretty though slightly oversized. The cards are standard tarot card-sized. The gilding is a little too bright on some cards, or maybe some cards are too dark, so it looks a bit garish. The gilding on the side comes off on your hands when you shuffle, though it doesn’t seem to be a large amount lost.

The cards are overly rigid-too thick- and difficult to shuffle with. The gilding also had some of them stuck together, so I had to be careful not to damage them by prying them apart. The link to stories and the help you can find in the guidebook is lovely, the illustrations are, for the most part, beautiful. I’m curious as to how this deck is going to work for me, so stay tuned for the challenge to see what we get!

Happy Readings! 💛💛💛

-Madame Starbeam