John D WrathallThrough stunningly beautiful images, the Classical Cat Tarot honors love for cats as they appear in the natural world and as they intrude into our consciousness in varying degrees of anthropomorphism. The deck's symbolism draws on the Tarot of Marseille, inflected with Enlightenment elegance, Romantic moods, fairytale echoes and the quiet hum of natural history.
Each suit has its own world:
* Fish for emotion - rendered in the soft strokes of East Asian watercolor
* Beetles for intellect - sharp and precise like 18th-century scientific illustrations
* Birds for will - soaring through Romantic landscapes
* Shiny Things for desire - told as a storybook fable, with each gem marking a lesson
The deck comes with bonus cards that expand the fairytale of the Swashbuckling Cat, built into the Shiny Things suit.
The booklet offers keys for interpretation of the deck from "The Swashbuckling Cat: A Fairytale".