Review by Theresa for Universal Waite Tarot Deck Rating:
You cannot go wrong with this deck whether you are a beginner or an advanced reader. The pleasing colors have added to the original Rider deck while not changing the original inspired work of Pamela Colman Smith. This deck is also great to meditate on since the pictures are beautiful. I have owned many decks and this one, in my opinion, is the best of them all.
Review by for Universal Waite Tarot Deck Rating:
This is a reprinted version of the UW. I’m not sure what happened, but it appears nobody paid much attention to the printing process. Result: The older version of the UW had much clearer colours, this one is muddy, some of the cards are downright pallid, and in some of them you can’t make out some of the symbols.I think US Games is coming out with a brighter recoloured RWS in Spring, 2003. Hold off until then, or go with the RWS itself, at least if you want to be able to decipher the cards.Pity, because this used to be a good alternative to the RWS. These days I couldn’t recommend it.
Review by JPH for Universal Waite Tarot Deck Rating:
I spent one year using the Rider-Waite decks and the following three years demagnetizing my mind from their tired old limited imageries (i.e. the pictured pips).This oldie is certainly the top-seller in the American market, and not without good reason: the pictured pips take all the hassle out of your efforts at intuitive reading, and there are innumerable tarot books which adopt it as their illustrator. Hurrah. :-/ Still, I would implore all potential users to give the Marseilles-styled decks a try. They can be more rewarding, in fact….
Review by for Universal Waite Tarot Deck Rating:
I own five versions of the Rider-Waite deck. I don’t exactly dislike this interpretation–if you’re used to looking at the more standard un-shaded versions, this will bring out details that you might not have noticed before. However, I find the colored pencil work more than slightly irritating. It has the look of having been colored in by an amateur in a coloring book. It isn’t a very professional or artistic-looking coloring job. It’s not atrocious, but it’s not really great, either. The use of colored pencils–especially as applied here–also doesn’t ring particularly true to the age in which this deck was originally conceived, nor to what one would imagine were Pamela Coleman-Smith’s original intentions.
Review by for Universal Waite Tarot Deck Rating:
I’m new to tarot and this is my first deck and it’s a good one to start with. I ordered a book called “Learning the Tarot” by Joan Bunning, to go with this and it’s the best book. Very easy for a newcomer to understand. The book describes this deck in particular so it’s very helpful for me. The deck is easy to handle and I’m enjoying the colors and artwork. Another great deck that is based on Waite’s work is an Illuminated Tarot Deck (…). Beautiful colors of blue. Check it out.
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Review by Theresa for Universal Waite Tarot Deck
Rating:
You cannot go wrong with this deck whether you are a beginner or an advanced reader. The pleasing colors have added to the original Rider deck while not changing the original inspired work of Pamela Colman Smith. This deck is also great to meditate on since the pictures are beautiful. I have owned many decks and this one, in my opinion, is the best of them all.
Review by for Universal Waite Tarot Deck
Rating:
This is a reprinted version of the UW. I’m not sure what happened, but it appears nobody paid much attention to the printing process. Result: The older version of the UW had much clearer colours, this one is muddy, some of the cards are downright pallid, and in some of them you can’t make out some of the symbols.I think US Games is coming out with a brighter recoloured RWS in Spring, 2003. Hold off until then, or go with the RWS itself, at least if you want to be able to decipher the cards.Pity, because this used to be a good alternative to the RWS. These days I couldn’t recommend it.
Review by JPH for Universal Waite Tarot Deck
Rating:
I spent one year using the Rider-Waite decks and the following three years demagnetizing my mind from their tired old limited imageries (i.e. the pictured pips).This oldie is certainly the top-seller in the American market, and not without good reason: the pictured pips take all the hassle out of your efforts at intuitive reading, and there are innumerable tarot books which adopt it as their illustrator. Hurrah. :-/ Still, I would implore all potential users to give the Marseilles-styled decks a try. They can be more rewarding, in fact….
Review by for Universal Waite Tarot Deck
Rating:
I own five versions of the Rider-Waite deck. I don’t exactly dislike this interpretation–if you’re used to looking at the more standard un-shaded versions, this will bring out details that you might not have noticed before. However, I find the colored pencil work more than slightly irritating. It has the look of having been colored in by an amateur in a coloring book. It isn’t a very professional or artistic-looking coloring job. It’s not atrocious, but it’s not really great, either. The use of colored pencils–especially as applied here–also doesn’t ring particularly true to the age in which this deck was originally conceived, nor to what one would imagine were Pamela Coleman-Smith’s original intentions.
Review by for Universal Waite Tarot Deck
Rating:
I’m new to tarot and this is my first deck and it’s a good one to start with. I ordered a book called “Learning the Tarot” by Joan Bunning, to go with this and it’s the best book. Very easy for a newcomer to understand. The book describes this deck in particular so it’s very helpful for me. The deck is easy to handle and I’m enjoying the colors and artwork. Another great deck that is based on Waite’s work is an Illuminated Tarot Deck (…). Beautiful colors of blue. Check it out.