The card edges are gilded gold. Gilt-edged cards ship pressed tight and want a gentle riffle or a hand-over-hand shuffle for the first few weeks rather than a hard bridge, and the gilding wears at the corners over years of heavy use in a way plain cut edges don't. The cards are also large, three and a half by five and a half inches, so the images have room to breathe and small hands will want to shuffle in halves. The box closes with a magnet at the side and stands on a shelf like a book.
What you get
- 78 cards: 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana
- Gold gilt edges on all cards
- Card size 3 1/2" x 5 1/2"
- 144-page guidebook with keywords, card meanings, affirmations, and a task for each card
- Seven spreads laid out in the guidebook
- Magnetic side-closure rigid shelfbox
- Weight 1.96 lb
- ISBN 9780764358289
- Sealed in publisher shrinkwrap
About the deck
The art is photomanipulation: photographic elements layered, blended, and softened into painted-looking composites. The blending here runs deliberately soft, so figures and settings sit behind a kind of veil, and the palette stays in warm golds, dusk blues, and firelight reds. If you like hard-edged linework or bold graphic decks, this will feel diffuse to you. If you read by mood and atmosphere, it will work immediately.
Structure follows the standard 78-card tarot with fully illustrated Minor Arcana, so a Rider-Waite-Smith reader needs no relearning. The register is gentle throughout. The harder cards are rendered softly rather than harshly, and the guidebook pairs every card with an affirmation and a small assigned task. That makes it a good working deck for daily practice, journaling, and self-directed growth work, and a poor choice for anyone who wants a deck that will deliver bad news bluntly.
Provenance & tradition
Yasmeen Westwood is a self-taught photomanipulation artist based in Perthshire, Scotland. She is a Reiki master with study in NLP, hypnotherapy, and life coaching, and the therapeutic background shows in how the guidebook is built — meanings framed toward action rather than prediction. This was her first deck, published in December 2019 by Schiffer Publishing under the Red Feather Mind Body Spirit imprint. She went on to publish a second tarot, the Westwood Tarot. The package carries endorsements from working readers including ConVocation regular Benebell Wen, who compared it to a fairy-tale book turned into cards.
Who this is for
Beginners, since the guidebook explains every card plainly and the seven spreads are ready to use out of the box. Readers who want a gentle deck for daily draws, journaling, and self-work. Inner child work and dreamwork. Anyone whose main deck runs harsh and who wants a softer one for hard weeks. Collectors of gilt-edged and fantasy-art decks. Gift for a new reader.
