A Jane Austen Tarot Deck by Jacqui Oakley is a stunning collection of 53 hand-drawn characters and objects from Austen’s enduring novels. The deck features iconic characters like Mr Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Elinor Dashwood, as well as the villainous Mr. Wickham from Pride and Prejudice. The deck also includes a teapot representing strength, a cup representing water, and Austen herself as the Magician.
The cards are designed to connect Austen themes with tarot themes, with Cups representing hearts, Wands representing clubs, Coins/Pentacles representing diamonds, and Swords representing spades. Cups relate to emotions, while cups represent water. The deck is perfect for both longtime and new readers, as it allows readers to draw and interpret cards in response to a seeker’s questions or concerns. Each card in the deck has its own unique symbolism and meaning.
The cards are fully illustrated and mainly feature scenes from Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Mansfield Park. Available as a standalone set, this stunning collection is an ultimate must-have for any Jane Austen fan. The deck is available for free download as a PDF file or read online for free.
📹 A Jane Austin Tarot Deck Review
In this video we go over; – What I do and don’t like about the deck – How it reads – Product quality – Rating out of 10 If you want to …
What does each deck of cards mean?
The deck of cards is believed to represent the agricultural calendar, with 52 cards for each week in a year. The red and black colors represent night and day, while the four suits can represent seasons, elements, and lunar cycles. Each suit has 13 cards, representing the weeks in each season or the number of lunar cycles during the year. The deck also has 12 court cards, representing the 12 months in a year.
Symbols in the deck include faces representing historical figures, such as King Alexander, King Charlemagne, King David, and King Augustus. Queens and jacks represent someone else, while the kings represent different historical figures. The cards were once used for games and fortune-telling, but they can also be used to teach the agricultural calendars.
What are the 4 suits in deck of cards?
In the international deck of cards, the four suits are hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs. The spade and club suits are black, while hearts and diamonds are red.
Can I learn tarot on my own?
Tarot reading is a powerful tool for understanding one’s relationship with the world around them. The deck consists of 78 cards, divided into 22 Major Arcana cards and 56 suits with different energies. Each card has a unique interpretation and takes on new meaning when combined with others. Professional readers can provide guidance on this journey, as everyone has their own tips. Keeping track of your tarot pulls can help identify patterns and themes to pay attention to.
As a professional astrologer and tarot reader, taking notes on your cards can help you identify patterns and themes that may be causing you to draw attention. Experts have provided tips for beginners and experts alike, ensuring a successful and enjoyable experience with tarot reading.
Do tarot cards predict the future?
Tarot can help make big decisions, but it cannot predict the future. Michelle Tea suggests beginners start with a three-card reading from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck. Growing up, her family often relied on tarot for tough decisions, such as discussing a brother’s breakup or deciding whether to drop out of school. The deck’s iconic Rider-Waite-Smith cards can be used to guide readers through these situations.
What do the four cards represent?
The four playing card suits in the Tarot represent the four seasons, solstices, moon phases, and elements found in nature. These cards were brought to Europe from Italy in the late 14th and early 15th centuries and were known as Il giuco dei Tarocchi, meaning “the game of the wayfaring people”. This game established a basic card layout of 22 cards used later for divination. Many cards in Il giuco dei Tarocchi were familiar to modern divination users, such as the Fool, the Empress, the Wheel of Fortune, and the Star.
However, the interpretation of playing cards is not ancient wisdom. Former Protestant pastor Antoine Court de Gébelin believed in the Tarocchini cards’ occult meaning in 1781, claiming they had ancient and mystical roots in the Egyptian worship of Thoth.
What are the 4 suits in a tarot deck of cards?
Cartomantic Tarot cards, derived from Latin-suited packs, typically have a Minor Arcana of 56 cards, with 14 cards in each suit: Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. The four court cards are page, knight, queen, and king. Some variations have princess and prince cards, while others have damsel and mounted lady cards. The historical Tarot of Marseilles contains 56 cards, while later packs based on French suits have only three court cards per suit. The Minor Arcana is believed to represent mundane life features, while the court cards may represent people one meets. Each suit has distinctive characteristics and connotations.
What do the cards in a tarot deck mean?
Tarots were first used for occult and fortune-telling in France around 1780. Each card in the major arcana has a specific meaning, with the minor arcana focusing on business and career ambitions. The tarot deck is shuffled by the questioner, and a fortune-teller then lays out a few cards in a spread pattern. The meaning of a card is modified based on its position in the spread, its orientation, and the meaning of adjacent cards.
Do tarot cards really work?
Tarot readings can be an empowering and insightful tool for self-discovery and future direction. A professional tarot reader can help you understand your goals and desires, providing insight into your situation and guiding you towards the best actions for your love life, career, or other questions. They can also reveal the motivations of others and predict potential outcomes of decisions. A good tarot reading can provide clarity and help heal anxiety.
However, it is crucial to prepare thoroughly for your first reading to fully benefit from the experience. A good tarot reading can provide valuable insights into your future and help you make informed decisions.
How many tarot cards are there?
A tarot deck is comprised of 78 cards, divided into two categories: major and minor arcana. The 22 major arcana cards address significant life events and themes, including relationships, career, and love. These cards offer insight into major life events.
What does each card in a deck of cards symbolize?
Card decks symbolize various aspects, such as desire, union, faith, satisfaction, change, adjustments, victory, power, new beginnings, and success. Suits consist of a king, queen, jack, and three face cards, with the suit order being spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. A suit contains a king, queen, jack, and three face cards. The suit order in card games is a combination of these symbols.
What do the Tarot cards tell you?
Tarot cards are not fortune-telling but coaching tools for personal discovery and self-care. They highlight past experiences, validate current situations, and suggest future possibilities. Tarot provides a glimpse into the energetic landscape, allowing individuals to make the best decisions for themselves moving forward. It offers agency, not prophecies. Interest in tarot, along with astrology and numerology, has grown significantly in recent years, with social media providing a surge of divinatory and personal growth content.
However, learning to read tarot cards can be daunting due to the vast literature and rules surrounding the art form. Rachel Howe, a Brooklyn-based artist, Reiki healer, and tarot reader, believes that anyone can read tarot, and the rules have been used in the past to protect the art form. Now, anyone can read tarot, making it an appealing and healthy way to gain a stronger sense of personal agency.
📹 The Jane Austen Tarot Deck Unboxing
We unbox together the new release of the Jane Austen Tarot Deck by Jacqui Oakley! ⭐ A special THANK YOU to everyone!
This feels very much like a themed version of the Illuminated Tarot which is also a Tarot/playing card hybrid but it seems to work far better because you are not dealing with an extra layer of a theme deck. It also seems to follow more a Marseille vibe in terms of the number associations as opposed to RWS.
I am a tarot enthusiast – I have over a hundred decks – and I LOVE Jane Austen, so I was excited to hear there is a new Jane Austen Tarot out. I am disappointed to see that this is not what I would call a real tarot. I don’t think “blending” the Major Arcana and the Minors works. The book entries do not look to me like adequate explanations of the cards. Pretty, yes, but I wouldn’t dream of buying this “tarot”.
I just came across a deck that I’m absolutely obsessed with…its called “Ask The Witch”. If you haven’t reviewed it yet, you definitely should! lol I got in on Amazon for like $15 or $16 which is crazy because it feels like the price shoud have been $25-30. I’ve had it for two weeks now and I can’t stop reaching for it. The artwork is stunning, the cards shuffle like a dream and the symbolism is direct and it gives for some profound readings. I was pleasantly surprised when I got it because I was not expecting to fall in love with the deck! But anyway, Thank you for the review! 🙏💕 Just subbed.
whenever i want to buy a deck (or even just impulsively buying a deck hahah) i’m going to your website to see your review. at first, i watched this and feeling not connected because of the 53 cards and the playing cards concept. but after i impulsively buying this deck today and watched this again, i feel connected 🤍 it’s pretty interesting concept and i love exploring (and im nerd hahah). can’t wait to receive it at the end of the month! thank you for your article 🤍🤍🤍🤍❤❤
Im also just starting out and this is my first deck too! I just ordered mine and im excited! thank you for sharing us this article because i can relate to everything you just said. Im more into exercising my intuition. I follow the guidebook but i prefer 53 decks to practice on before moving forward to the traditional 78-card deck. ❤️ I hope you do a review on Tattoo Tarot : Ink & Intuition as well as Im planning to buy that !
I only just now ran across this article. I love the article, the deck colors, the art, but this is soooo confusing! I’m a huge Jane Austen fan and an experienced tarot reader, but I can’t make heads nor tails of this deck. Not sure exactly what it is, but it doesn’t seem to be either a tarot or an oracle deck. I also collect decks, but I like to actually use the decks in my collection, and I just don’t quite see how I would use these for a reading. Thanks so much for this review, now I know I would not likely buy this. I would also not recommend it for beginners, I usually suggest a fairly traditional RWS for someone learning tarot, or one of its many clones. So A+ for your review, but only a D for the deck.
I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your review. I was at Bolen Books, here in Canada, craving a tarot card purchase and they had like 2 decks, gaw, hehe. I loved the movies though I’ve never read the books so right off I was taking a bit of a chance. I got home with my $25.00 purchase, which after hearing your purchase price of $19.00, I was relieved. Usually, you can almost double what y’all pay stateside;0). That being said, and this my first time hanging out with you, I hope I don’t learn you’re up here in Canada with me, hehe. Though somewhat familiar with tarot, I was nervous about reading the deck as it kinda looks, Pippish? The guide book, sparse, and without finding a useful review, I actually considered how I could mod the deck into something like a personal oracle. After all, as you mentioned, they are quality. I love the linen feel and they are oh so purdy with the soft pink. Omg, a fav of mine, hehe. You leave me inspired to be open to enjoying the cards! Resistance, Be Gone! hehe. Thanks so much, this was wonderful to see and I’d love to hear later how these, hehe, fan out for you;0) Love and Joy from LindasDesk;0) p.s. I really did enjoy your review:). Thanks!
Thank you for the unboxing ♥ 🙂 … I’m a huge fan of the Illuminated Tarot and I really like this Jane Austen Deck. There are some majors which are not the same as in the Illuminated Tarot, like the empress and I think the emperor. I like the concept of the two Decks and also the artwork (which is totally different). What I don’t like ist, that they are so big. Do you know if the Jane Austen Cards has the same size as the Illuminated Tarot. Or they are bigger?