Ancient Minchiate Etruria Cards – September 8, 2000

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I love these cards. The images are lovely and 97 cards means greater variation in their readings than with a more traditional tarot deck. Because the cards are fairly small, the larger deck is easy enough to handle, as well.If you do the Renaissance Faire or SCA, this deck is just out of period for Florence Italy, but looks period anyway. The Visconti deck is period, but the 4 cards that were recreated from scratch are not. The "Devil" card in the Ancient Minchiate deck is actually closer to what a "Devil" card would have looked like in period.The biggest problem with this deck is that it does not have a good instruction book to go with it. It has a small booklet in several languages, but the meanings given for the cards are very limited. If you want to try out these cards or others to see how they look and how well they work in a tarot reading.[...]Here you can try several decks and see interpretations for reversals as well as for upright cards. I know of no other website or book were you can view the meanings for reversals in the Minchiate decks.By the way, if you decide to buy this deck from an Amazon Marketplace seller, do not use Movie Mars! They waited 2 weeks to ship. When I got my deck there were a bunch of cards missing and duplicated. I tried to return them for a replacement deck, but they never contacted me to say if or when the replacement dack had shipped. When I finally contacted them, they told me they were back-ordered. Yet, they were still offering the same deck on eBay under the store name of "Book Mars".

This is a poor remake of a beautiful old deck. The images are everything when using the Tarot for insight. This deck was a disappointment.