It’s no secret that I adore autumn (or the fall if you happen to be in America), it’s my favourite season of the year. Mother Nature is the most talented artist, painting our pavements with gorgeous golden tones of yellow, orange, red, and brown as the leaves fall from the trees. Autumn is the season for pumpkins, mixed spices, hot chocolates, crisp walks in the fresh autumn air, and of course, Halloween!
You can imagine my delight therefore when I recently received the Autumn Miss Tarot, a brand new Tarot deck from Deckstiny.
Who Is Deckstiny?
Deckstiny, formerly named ‘Shuffle Tarot’ is a Thailand-based company that has created numerous popular Tarot and divination decks that are available to purchase Worldwide. Deckstiny is a team collaboration of author Mate Horonumber, illustrator JUJIIR & Petpodpot Pettoonza and artist Oomsin Phumphat.
Beautifully Boxed
The Autumn Miss Tarot arrives encased within a sturdy, smooth, cardboard box featuring thumb slots for easy access and awesome autumnal artwork on the front, back, and sides of the boxes. Whilst most of Deckstiny’s decks are packaged in flimsier tuck-boxes, the Autumn Miss Tarot is an exception and I prefer this as the sturdier, stylish box gives this deck a higher quality overall finish.
Postage and Packaging
What, No Guidebook?
Though Deckstiny has included the odd guidebook with their decks from time to time, there aren’t many of their publications that have done so. The Autumn Miss Tarot is one of Deckstiny’s many decks that comes without a guidebook.
The Cards
The Autumn Miss Tarot is a standard Tarot-sized deck (measuring 120 x 70mm) printed on matt-coated 350 GSM Art card with gorgeous glitter 3D gold foil edging. These luxurious, thick cards feature bright, bold, borderless cartoon style artwork with casual-style black titling fonts. The symmetrical card backs are pale pink in colour with a simple circular leaf motif to decorate, this deck is ideal for upright and reversed readings.
Certification Cards
The Autumn Miss Tarot arrives with four additional cards: an autumn quote card, a postcard, a support card, and a certification card identifying the unique copy number of the deck (Deckstiny prints only a limited amount of each of their decks, and each particular deck is stamped and certified with a unique number).
The Autumn Miss Tarot
First published in 2021, Autumn Miss Tarot is a seventy-nine card autumnal based Tarot deck featuring bright, bold, cartoon-style characters set against glorious golden, autumnal scenery. This is a modern take upon the traditional Tarot, and as so it makes use of the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith setup, titling, and figures.
The Major Arcana
The Autumn Miss Tarot major arcana cards feature a diverse range of bright, bold, characters and figures which are easy to recognise from the traditional Tarot and simple for readers of all abilities to interpret and understand.
Deckstiny often includes bonus cards throughout their decks, including the Autumn Miss Tarot where they have added a ‘Happy Squirrel’ card.
The Minor Arcana
Similar in style to the major arcana, the minor arcana cards continue with a glorious golden autumnal theme. The Autumn Miss Tarot uses the traditional RWS suits of Cups, Wands, Swords and Pentacles as well as the traditional court card figures (Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings).
Shuffling Through The Autumn Miss Tarot
I have put together a short video-walkthrough guide outlining and further explaining The Autumn Miss Tarot.
Reading and Working with The Autumn Miss Tarot
I’ve spent the past fortnight working and reading with the Autumn Miss Tarot and have found readings to be clear, concise, and informative. The cards are super smooth to shuffle, and the sturdy packaging, matt finish and gorgeous golden edging make this deck an extravagant and elegant deck to work with.
The rich, bright, and bold imagery is easy to interpret and understand thus I would suggest the Autumn Miss Tarot to be suitable for readers of all ages and abilities.
Purchasing and Pricing Information
The Autumn Miss Tarot is available to purchase online via Deckstinys Etsy shop. This deck is currently priced at £52.08 with an additional £32.55 postage fee for UK customers (taking the price to £84.63 in total). Whilst I understand that due to postage and packaging this is quite an expensive Tarot deck to acquire, if you are willing to purchase a number of Deckstiny’s titles simultaneously then you may make an overall saving.
To Summarise
The Autumn Miss Tarot is a seasonal sensation with glorious golden tones and awesome autumnal imagery. This luxurious Tarot deck is ideal for readers of all ages and abilities, and though postage and packaging prices are a little steep (especially for those of us in the UK) the quality and content of this deck are well worth its price tag.
For further information on the Autumn Miss Tarot or alternative Deckstiny publications visit www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ShuffleTarot
Disclosure: I was sent the above product for the purpose of this post however all opinions are my own.