- Deck Title: Manifestation Tarot
- Author: Jayne Wallace
- Illustrated by: Julia Cellini
- Published by: CICO BOOKS
- RRP: GBP £20
- ISBN NO: 978-1-800653733
- Reviewed by: Clair Telford
Have you ever wanted to combine a pip style tarot with positive mantras that encourage gentle loving messages along with dreamlike images? If so, this may be the deck for you!
I was given this opportunity to review the Manifestation Tarot, and it is a pleasure to hold such a unique experience and style of deck. The box comes in a sturdy slipcase with a 64-page colour illustrated book, with the deck itself bound with a small plastic band. Taking everything out was easy and the insert is removable. The size of the cards is bigger than a standard RWS deck at 13.5 cm x 8.5 cm.
The cards have a very pleasant back which incorporates the rainbow spectrum and a flower like mandala. Although the cards aren’t perhaps the thickest stock, I felt they were easy to shuffle despite being a little on the glossy side.
The Minors of this deck have a colour associated background as follows:
Cups are blue
Swords are lilac
Wands are green
Pentacles are yellow
The court cards follow the traditional Page, Knight, Queen, and King, while the Majors are recognisable and easily associated with many styles of tarot.
Jayne Wallace, the founder of Psychic Sisters at Selfridges London, specialises in intuitive counselling, Angel cards, tarot cards, psychometry and clairvoyance. As a young girl, Jane had dyslexia and says, in her own words, that “the expectation from others was that I
wouldn’t amount to much. That wasn’t my belief though. I always knew that I would be successful. In fact in my head, it had already happened. I didn’t know it at the time but I was manifesting!”
The book which is in 4 parts is split into Introduction, Reading The Cards, The Major Arcana, and The Minor Arcana. In the Introduction it talks about a seven day challenge using only the Major Arcana to pick one card and uses a mantra or an affirmation for the day.
There are also several spreads included with explanations about either Manifestation, Elements or a Tree of Life spread. I think if you were new to tarot and this was your first deck it would be simple enough to follow the books keywords and mantras before trying to learn all the meanings of the cards you see. Also, Jayne talks a bit about numerology under the heading of numbered cards. I like that as the pips (1-10) aren’t illustrated, only the image of each suit is depicted, for example 10 cups or 4 wands.
*The seven cards drawn for my own personal use and how I felt this worked* So every day I took a few moments to allow myself space to concentrate on shuffling the cards. Fanning them I would be drawn to a card for the day. My first card being Judgement “I know my own destiny” was interesting as it doesn’t look like the RWS or Marseille Judgement card, but more of a calling to ask the Universe my destiny.
The rest of the cards included Temperance, Death, The Moon, The Sun, Justice and The World. As you can see from the picture it was a genuinely beautiful week of messages and at present, something that was able to give me the focus I have been needing. I particularly like the Moon card illustration as it shows both a cat and a dog which is something important to me right now.
I did have one small issue, though – trying to put the cards back into the box was a tad tricky. In the end, I decided it would make more sense to take out the card insert as the plastic band couldn’t be fitted back over the cards, so they ended up slipping around.
On a final note, the level of diversity throughout the cards, I think, will appeal to anyone who chooses to have this deck in their collection, or as a first time buy. I will enjoy using this deck to do readings for fellow friends who have an interest in gentle affirmations that might help them journal and give inspiration for meditations. I do like the deck overall.
Jayne Wallace can be reached at https://psychicsisters.co.uk/
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