Chrysalis Tarot is a whimsical tarot deck reminding me of a children book. While based on Rider-Waite 78-card layout, it’s a non-traditional deck, with which authors Toney Brooks and Holly Sierra bring a fresh, metamorphic approach, focused on self-development and finding helpful guides from an invisible world of archetypes ultimately benevolent and uplifting. There is a feeling you are inspired and advised by a group of close friends when you ask your questions to this deck. The symbolism is international and eclectic and most original Rider-Waite card associations are replaced with a new outlook. The court cards are no longer kings, knights and queens, but as the author calls them, “a delightful ensemble of medieval merrymakers”: Healer, Mime, Artiste, Sojourner, Corsair, Pilgrim etc., all universal archetypes inspiring and guiding you on your journey.
Each card is explained with love and profundity, and what I like the most is how the choice of colors is also meaningful, thoughtfully chosen, serving as an additional interpretation guidance apart from the figurative imagery, and there is an additional advice from the authors to pay attention to the colors in each card and how they open different layers of your mind: intuition, compassion, freshness of new beginnings, etc.
Even the more difficult moments on your journey with this deck are seen as important part of turning from a chrysalis into a butterfly, and this deck is able to inspire you to see these moments as growth-oriented, rather than menacing. There is this feeling while working with this deck that you have your own peer group of archetype people, animals, mythological creatures, deities, sometimes scolding sometimes cheering, but loving you, and you feel among family with the cards. You feel the child that you were, now finally ready to see again, as you did before, that the world is a magical place and our life a fairy tale.
Despite the gentle and loving cards, the deck offers deep insight with all questions and it doesn't shy away from the truth.
Each card is explained with love and profundity, and what I like the most is how the choice of colors is also meaningful, thoughtfully chosen, serving as an additional interpretation guidance apart from the figurative imagery, and there is an additional advice from the authors to pay attention to the colors in each card and how they open different layers of your mind: intuition, compassion, freshness of new beginnings, etc.
Even the more difficult moments on your journey with this deck are seen as important part of turning from a chrysalis into a butterfly, and this deck is able to inspire you to see these moments as growth-oriented, rather than menacing. There is this feeling while working with this deck that you have your own peer group of archetype people, animals, mythological creatures, deities, sometimes scolding sometimes cheering, but loving you, and you feel among family with the cards. You feel the child that you were, now finally ready to see again, as you did before, that the world is a magical place and our life a fairy tale.
Despite the gentle and loving cards, the deck offers deep insight with all questions and it doesn't shy away from the truth.
COVR Award Winner for Best Tarot Deck of 2015
Chrysalis Tarot was selected Tarot Deck of the Year 2014 by Tarot Professionals Worldwide
Chrysalis Tarot opens up your psyche and illuminates your path toward personal destiny. Exquisitely drawn Otherworld characters and mythological archetypes guide you on your spiritual quest. Both the Major and Minor Arcana feature beautifully illustrated scenes that inspire reflection and stimulate your psychic intuition and imagination. The four suits that make up the Minor Arcana are: Stones (Pentacles); Mirrors (Cups); Spirals (Wands); and Scrolls (Swords). In the Court Cards you’ll meet a delightful troupe of medieval messengers who inspire you to fulfill your dreams. Deck includes 78 cards and 60-page booklet with instructions for a five-card Pentagram Spread.
About Holly Sierra
Holly Sierra has been drawn to all things mystical and magical since her childhood. Her vibrant paintings allow us a glimpse into an enchanted world filled with goddesses and mythological creatures. Holly’s infatuation with Tarot began when she was a teen and discovered an antique deck amongst her parents’ possessions. The Chrysalis Tarot deck is dedicated to both her beloved parents. After pursuing a fine arts education, Holly lived and traveled extensively in Asia. Multicultural themes influence her artwork, which has appeared in children’s books, magazines and greeting cards. Holly makes her home amidst the picturesque, green mountains of Stowe, Vermont.
About Toney Brooks
After retiring from broadcasting twenty years ago, Toney traveled the world researching spirituality. He studied, both formally and informally, a number of metaphysical subjects including comparative mythology, philosophy of history, and an obscure area of theology known as Mariology. He holds a PhD in Metaphysics and a certification in Spiritual Counseling.
https://www.usgamesinc.com/Chrysalis-Tarot/
Chrysalis Tarot was selected Tarot Deck of the Year 2014 by Tarot Professionals Worldwide
Chrysalis Tarot opens up your psyche and illuminates your path toward personal destiny. Exquisitely drawn Otherworld characters and mythological archetypes guide you on your spiritual quest. Both the Major and Minor Arcana feature beautifully illustrated scenes that inspire reflection and stimulate your psychic intuition and imagination. The four suits that make up the Minor Arcana are: Stones (Pentacles); Mirrors (Cups); Spirals (Wands); and Scrolls (Swords). In the Court Cards you’ll meet a delightful troupe of medieval messengers who inspire you to fulfill your dreams. Deck includes 78 cards and 60-page booklet with instructions for a five-card Pentagram Spread.
About Holly Sierra
Holly Sierra has been drawn to all things mystical and magical since her childhood. Her vibrant paintings allow us a glimpse into an enchanted world filled with goddesses and mythological creatures. Holly’s infatuation with Tarot began when she was a teen and discovered an antique deck amongst her parents’ possessions. The Chrysalis Tarot deck is dedicated to both her beloved parents. After pursuing a fine arts education, Holly lived and traveled extensively in Asia. Multicultural themes influence her artwork, which has appeared in children’s books, magazines and greeting cards. Holly makes her home amidst the picturesque, green mountains of Stowe, Vermont.
About Toney Brooks
After retiring from broadcasting twenty years ago, Toney traveled the world researching spirituality. He studied, both formally and informally, a number of metaphysical subjects including comparative mythology, philosophy of history, and an obscure area of theology known as Mariology. He holds a PhD in Metaphysics and a certification in Spiritual Counseling.
https://www.usgamesinc.com/Chrysalis-Tarot/
I like how the author Toney Brooks best describes this wonderful Tarot deck, in the introduction of the presentation booklet:
"Tarot is about achieving your destiny; that co-creative, co-operative, maddening march through life filled with chance, chicanery and choice. The pursuit of personal destiny is a struggle to find inner peace, to find balance between an ego that wants and takes and a psyche that allows and gives.
By your side on your quest for self-fulfillment is an unseen force. It’s an energy field known by many names and recognized by many masks; a force that informs your psyche and nudges you forward. In the Chrysalis Tarot, we refer to this force as the Otherworld.
In modern times, as tarot became associated with mysticism, divination and magic, users noticed the cards’ uncanny ability to flesh out future possibilities. Tarot’s illumination of your psyche is a vital component in the art of listening to your internal voice, raising self-awareness and informing decisions.
We invite you to browse through the Chrysalis Tarot cards. You’ll find familiar and unfamiliar trump cards making up the Major Arcana. These 22 cards numbered 0 to 21 represent Otherworld characters and archetypes. Next up, the 40 Pip cards, numbered Ace through Ten in each suit, feature scenes that inspire personal reflection and stimulate your psychic intuition and imagination. The four suits that make up the Minor Arcana are: Stones (Pentacles); Mirrors (Cups); Spirals (Wands); and Scrolls (Swords).
Finally, you’ll see we have replaced the traditional 16 Court cards with a fun-loving troupe of medieval troubadours. These merrymakers represent real-life messengers inspired by the Otherworld to assist you, especially at critical moments and troubling crossroads. Tarot invites questions, inspires the mind and whisks you on an adventurous journey within, a journey that is revealing, informative and fun. We trust it will be as fruitful as those journeys that led us to imagine and create this unique tarot deck."
"Tarot is about achieving your destiny; that co-creative, co-operative, maddening march through life filled with chance, chicanery and choice. The pursuit of personal destiny is a struggle to find inner peace, to find balance between an ego that wants and takes and a psyche that allows and gives.
By your side on your quest for self-fulfillment is an unseen force. It’s an energy field known by many names and recognized by many masks; a force that informs your psyche and nudges you forward. In the Chrysalis Tarot, we refer to this force as the Otherworld.
In modern times, as tarot became associated with mysticism, divination and magic, users noticed the cards’ uncanny ability to flesh out future possibilities. Tarot’s illumination of your psyche is a vital component in the art of listening to your internal voice, raising self-awareness and informing decisions.
We invite you to browse through the Chrysalis Tarot cards. You’ll find familiar and unfamiliar trump cards making up the Major Arcana. These 22 cards numbered 0 to 21 represent Otherworld characters and archetypes. Next up, the 40 Pip cards, numbered Ace through Ten in each suit, feature scenes that inspire personal reflection and stimulate your psychic intuition and imagination. The four suits that make up the Minor Arcana are: Stones (Pentacles); Mirrors (Cups); Spirals (Wands); and Scrolls (Swords).
Finally, you’ll see we have replaced the traditional 16 Court cards with a fun-loving troupe of medieval troubadours. These merrymakers represent real-life messengers inspired by the Otherworld to assist you, especially at critical moments and troubling crossroads. Tarot invites questions, inspires the mind and whisks you on an adventurous journey within, a journey that is revealing, informative and fun. We trust it will be as fruitful as those journeys that led us to imagine and create this unique tarot deck."
