Elizabeth Gill
US Games, 1991
This was a birthday gift from a dear, dear lady who sadly has been excluded (for now) from the world of tarot and her tarot friends. Hopefully, she will be able to find her way back. For now, much love and support are sent along the Universal Strand....
The Gill Tarot has been on my wishlist for some time. I was very excited when I received this surprise gift. First of all, it was brand new and sealed in cellophane. Who cares if it recently sold for $65.00 on eBay!! I ripped off the cellophane and found that the squat deck was nearly the perfect size for me to shuffle comfortably! It will need some serious shuffling to get it broken in...
It is GD/Thoth in nature and reads very well as such. The use of colors and simple images make the pips remarkably expressive - given each has a rather large number on the card face! Even in scans, I never felt the numbers were overbearing - they become part of the image, not interfere with it. The majors are colorful and well executed, I think.
As a reading deck, I found it easy to read. It just has an easy style about it - relaxed and not full of itself! I recommend it to anybody lucky to find it.
If I had to save only 2 decks from my whole collection this one and Sheridan-Douglas it would be. Relaxed is just the perfect word for it too :-D
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