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Mystic Mondays Tarot

Title: Mystic Mondays 
Artist: Grace Duong
Price Range: $24/£17
Dimensions: 8.57 x 5.4 x 13.65 cm
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Date: 1st edition. 23 Oct. 2018
Style: Vibrant Abstract


(Amazon Stock photo) 

I was looking at the Deck on Amazon, quite a lot. 
By that I mean every time I went to Amazon to look for something else. 
After the Wild Unknown FIASCO and getting minimal from the traditional Rider Waite I though "fuck it" , and I bought it.

 
Box
The Box is very sturdy, great quality of cardboard and i love the finish. The deck on Amazon has a slightly different side but i actually like this more.

Interior

Card Stock
Guilded with shiny silver i sat moving it about in the light because it was pretty.
Card stock is good quality and finish is lacquered.

I'm not sure now happy I am about the finish because I much prefer matt style decks, buuuuut I don't think they'd get the same colour Pop on the cards if they changed it. So i accept this.

Walk through

The art is very clean, bright but clean and the Archetypes are gendered.
I think the Chariot is one of my fave cards
The Hanged Woman is also pretty good and a nice take on the traditional without losing any meaning. 

All the Princes look like Fuck Boys.... 
(The types to text "WYD at 2am on a Sunday morning. Knight of cups tells you that you are the only one he is texting... Yeh right!) 

Pages are replaced with Princesses. The colour schemes all very soft. 
I feel the same about the Queens.

The Kings are all MEN, Tom Selleck vibes. 
I especially have a soft spot for the King of Cups. Come and get me Emotional Merman.... 

Small issues

One or two cards to me do not convey the meaning based on the imagery.
Kind of a nothing card 

My main issue with this deck.... Simply is that I feel it is very Eurocentric, and also the streamlined bodies do not represent to me the variety of human beings I like to see in Tarot decks, as I see in daily life. 

Yes Grace Duong did stay away from sexuality being specific, the lovers for example. 
(This is a really pretty card) 

The human imagery is deliberately faceless, so it leaves you able to imagine some of the Archetypes being Queer, although I'm pretty convinced The Emperor is a bear. 

(Definitely a Bear)


The Empress is perhaps not lucky in love this time, despite her efforts lol. 

Grace Duong has also released a Crystal Grid deck, and a Cosmic Creatures deck. All in the same vibrant style as the Tarot. 
If you want the collection. 

I believe that this is a great deck for beginners, as most of the imagery is logical so for those who have problems remembering the meanings (I do sometimes) I suggest you get it. Also a good deck for younger Tarot readers. 

DRAG OR HYPE? HYPE

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