€ 25,25
Paulina Cassidy made a deliberate choice with this deck: no human figures, anywhere. Animals, nature spirits and symbols take their place, each tied to one of five elements: Fire, Water, Air, Earth and Spirit. The guidebook goes beyond standard meanings and includes affirmations and focused questions for every card.
With no human faces on the cards, readings carry no built-in assumptions about gender, age or appearance.
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Most tarot cards show people: knights, queens, figures raising swords or holding cups. Paulina Cassidy stepped away from that entirely. The Elemental Power Tarot contains no human figures at all. What you find instead are animals, nature spirits, symbols and elemental forces, structured around a system of five elements.
This is not an aesthetic quirk. It is a considered decision that changes how you read the cards. Without faces, body language or human expressions to anchor you, interpretation falls back on what the natural world shows and what moves inside you.
The Major Arcana falls under the element of Spirit, the overarching force that sits above the classical four. The Minor Arcana is divided across Fire (Wands), Water (Cups), Air (Swords) and Earth (Pentacles). The court cards, traditionally Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings, are reimagined here as animal and elemental guides.
The result is an internally consistent system. Each element carries its own energy and that energy colours every card in its suit: creativity and passion with Fire, emotions and intuition with Water, thought and communication with Air, the physical world with Earth.
Cassidy is known for a style that is imaginative and detailed without feeling crowded. The illustrations are described as whimsical and soft, yet layered. Each animal and nature element carries its own character, which means the cards communicate something even before you open the guidebook.
The 136-page guidebook goes beyond standard meanings. Each card comes with an affirmation and focused questions designed to draw on intuition rather than memorised definitions.
For anyone who finds the human figures in classical decks limiting, whether because of gender, age or cultural representation, this removes that obstacle entirely. Nature does not assign a middle-aged queen or a European-looking Page to a concept. A wolf is a wolf. A flame is a flame.
Pick a card and describe out loud what you see, the animal, the movement, the colour, before reaching for any meaning. This deck rewards that approach precisely because there is no human perspective to steer your eye first.
Paulina Cassidy is an American illustrator and author with several tarot decks to her name. Earlier works include the Paulina Tarot, Joie de Vivre Tarot, Phantasma Tarot and the Whimsical Cats Oracle. The Elemental Power Tarot is published by U.S. Games Systems.
How different is this from a standard Rider-Waite-Smith tarot?
The structure is classical: 78 cards across Major and Minor Arcana with four suits. What is completely different is the imagery. No human figures appear anywhere. The familiar framework is there, but everything visual has been rebuilt around animals, elements and spirits. If you know traditional meanings, the structure will feel familiar; the cards themselves will not.
Does the guidebook contain only meanings, or is there more to it?
There is more. Alongside the traditional tarot meaning for each card, the guidebook includes an affirmation and one or more focused questions. These are written to prompt your own interpretation rather than to deliver a fixed reading.
| ISBN | 9781782499220 |
| Taal | English |
| Auteur | Melinda Lee Holm |
| SKU | 1912-STD20 |
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