Barbara Walker Tarot

by Barbara Walker

Barbara Walker Tarot reflects a unique feminist perspective of tarot with religious and pagan symbols from around the world. The Court Cards depict mythological gods and goddesses. The dominant colors of the deck and the card back design are red, black and white because they are “recognized everywhere as the colors of the original feminine Trinity (Triangle) representing her three phases of Virgin, Mother and Crone. Includes 78 pocket-sized cards with keywords in English, and a 48-page booklet.

Genres: Tarot

144 pages, Cards

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Raimondo Lagioia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intense, impassioned, potent, and accurate. Its minors and courts portray lush scenes and personages from diverse mythologies and legends. An air of cool menace pervades the entire thing, suggesting a ruthless, calculating philosophy that thoroughly enchanted me. It has some of the most evocative images I've ever encountered in a deck, with tableaus that depict moments of great triumph and tribulation, unfettered opulence and deep vicissitude, puissance and frailty, grandeur, bliss, serenity, desire, disillusionment, sorrow, despair, etc. It's perfect for political, business, career, and yes, even personal readings.

The little white book is informative enough, but if you want to delve deeper you may want to check out The Secrets of the Tarot: Origins, History, and Symbolism. It's an enticing companion tome with a profoundly erudite if somewhat sketchy scholarship. Still very much worth the read though.

9/10; 5 stars.