Touchstone Tarot

I got a copy of Kat Black’s Touch­stone Tarot today from Tarot Gar­den. It’s the lim­ited edi­tion ver­sion of the deck — mass mar­ket is avail­able for pre­order at places like Ama­zon (and prob­a­bly Tarot Gar­den too).

First of all, this was my first order with Tarot Gar­den and I was really pleased with the cus­tomer ser­vice. I had sent in a ques­tion about this deck before I ordered it and it was answered promtly and com­pletely. I received a ship­ping notice just a day after I ordered (I ordered it on Sun­day I believe — and the mail didn’t run on Mon­day). I got it today. Fantastic!

Now this ver­sion of the deck was a lim­ited print run (of 500 I believe). The deck came in a beau­ti­ful hand­made bag, with a pen (that says Touch­stone Tarot), with a sam­ple of “div­ina­tory incense” (which I don’t use a lot of since I have small chil­dren, but made the pack­age smell divine) and an agate pen­dant. It was a really fun pack­age all­to­gether and if I ever get around to cre­at­ing a tarot deck (like my hus­band was goad­ing me about just a few min­utes ago), I hope I can put together some­thing that’s just as unique and excit­ing to get in the post.

The cards are all really char­ac­ter focused — each card fea­tures a promi­nant fig­ure “dis­pens­ing advice” from their post. There is enough illus­tra­tion in the back­ground of each card that RWS read­ers can eas­ily make cor­re­spond­ing con­nec­tions, but I wouldn’t call it a RWS clone by any means.

The deck is dif­fer­ent than her Golden Tarot but is just as warm and invit­ing (maybe I’ll review that one next — haven’t shuf­fled them in awhile…). I really like this deck. I like the size of the cards and the stock seems to be very shuf­flable. I look for­ward to get­ting to know these cards bet­ter and mak­ing it a main­stay of my mea­ger collection.