Fool’s New Journey Tarot

Running through the cards, the initial perception is that the imagery is relatively simple – scenes depicted in water-coloured line drawings in a minimalist style. The artist’s intention was to reduce unnecessary clutter in the scenes, allowing the deeper meanings to come through despite an apparent lack of esoteric symbology. And maybe that was the focus of the deck – more a tool for self-discovery and meditation that for divinatory use. And, in that sense, this deck really works!  

As a tool for clarifying current personal events and relationships, or for deep self-analysis, the visualisations work in drawing you in to deeper reflection or drawing you out to higher, clearer perceptions and personal understanding. I actually believe that, despite, or maybe in-spite, of their simplicity, these images are closer to true Jungian archetypes than those of the many decks that claim to be built upon Jung’s direct philosophies. Many of the new images speak directly to what I would consider to be depictions of truly modern archetypes that still relate back to emotions, perceptions and understandings that Jung would recognize were he living in today’s science-age entrapments.