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Title: The Fairy Ring by Anna Franklin, Paul Mason ISBN: 0-7387-0274-9 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Perfect deck for the Fairy Aficionado
Comment: This is a set of Tarot like cards and a book on how to use them. The deck is divided into four 'seasons' and there is a grouping of eight (8) cards listed as 'Fairy Festival' representing the eight (8) Sabats of the Wheel of the Year'.
The deck is lovely. The artwork of Paul Mason is almost photographic in nature and the graphics are super. Each card is loaded with symbolism and the fairies, either truly beautiful or really ugly are a joy to behold either way. The artwork here is what captures the attention, which is what the cards are supposed to do.
The 'seasons' - spring, summer, fall and winter - are each very close to the four suits of a regular deck of cards, ace through nine, and then there is a 'Lady' card, a 'knave' card (in place of a jack), a 'queen' and a 'king' card. While just a tad different from the other 'Rider-Waite' style of decks, the familiarity with a standard style of deck will allow you to pick up and use these cards with only a small amount of modification to the way you read. Being familiar with the 'Wheel of the Year' will also allow you to easily substitute this for the usual Major Arcane.
The book is also very well done. Ms. Franklin has put in much research and time to making this an excellent reference book to go along with the cards. Discussions about the seasonal nature of the fairy folk, the meaning of the names of the fairy folk, which are taken directly out of folklore and myth from the British Islands. To read this book is to take a trip through fairy tales (not Mother Goose here but the old fairy tales). Anyone with any interest in fairies would want to own this book just because of all the reference material collected in one place about the various fairy names. Here we find King Finvarra, The Blue Hag, Jack Frost, and explanations for the various types of fairies such as garconer, phooka, kelpie and will o' the wisp. Some of these you may recognize, some of these will wet your appetite for more information.
The meaning of drawing these cards is very well explained by Ms. Franklin and working a bit with the deck will allow you to very easily identify the cards with the meanings. Ms. Franklin gives the upright/reverse meanings so they are there if you draw your cards this way.
Ms. Franklin has also included several suggested ways to draw the cards and with a little practice this too can become easy for one who is familiar with card reading. The meanings will come as the cards are rich in imagery that does associate very clearly to the explanations given in the book.
Each section has a reference list for notations in the chapter, giving sources for the information provided and there is a very thorough bibliography for those who want to go off and do some research on their own. But the information that Ms. Franklin has provided here is rich in lore and myth and appears to be very accurate for her research.
A lovely deck and a well written and researched book make for an overall excellent presentation here. I find this to be a perfect gift idea for someone you know would be interested in decks or fairy lore or just a special treat for yourself.
Boudica
Rating: 5
Summary: These Two Have the Gift of a Unique and Magical Bond!
Comment: It seems the more Anna Franklin and Paul Mason (Sacred Circle Tarot) work together the more we are rewarded! "The Fairy Ring" is a mastered oracle set of classical beauty for all of us diviners who feel the connection to the Fairy folk.
Ms. Franklin, a practicing pagan and high priestess, has spent more than twenty years collecting and exploring fairy lore and legends. Her time at this pleasurable occupation has been spent commendably, for she offers us a deck where each card has its legend or lore, divinatory and reversed meanings, ways to work with each fairy - or whether it is wiser not to work with them.
The cards are split into the four seasons called the courts, which I find a huge plus for not only those of the fae path but also for hedgewitches whose day to day lives are also lived by the seasons and elements. Along with the four suits of court cards, there are also the eight major fairy festival cards. This I have not seen before and I enjoy working with these as well. There are nine spreads, a sample reading and a guide for meditations for the cards. All in all, the book was written for the basic reader and is very user friendly.
Mr. Mason is truly a visionary. Using photography and artistry together, he blends the cards into a beautiful masterpiece that is his own signature. Bringing fantasy, imagination, illusion and desire into the cards, he has managed to create symmetry of grand proportions!
The Fairy Ring is one of grandeur, from the beautiful fairies to the distorted ogres, and all in between. You will want to work with the oracle on a daily basis to give you the divine inner wisdom that you seek! Anna Franklin and Paul Mason, together, have created a treasure in The Fairy Ring.
M.L. Benton, Publisher, Echoed Voices
Copyright © October 2002
Rating: 5
Summary: Fairy Friends
Comment: I must admit that I was first drawn to this deck by the artwork, the fairy pictures are lovely. I didn't really think it would work very well, not being a traditional tarot pack. Then I started to read the book, and it is very deep indeed and Anna Franklin has obviously done a lot of research into fairies and the book made a lot of sense to me. When I started using the cards they just blew me away! The readings cut right to the chase. I love the whole thing.After this I bought their fairy encyclopedia to learn even more.
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Title: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies by Anna Franklin ISBN: 1843336243 Publisher: Vega Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Faeries' Oracle by Brian Froud, Jessica Macbeth ISBN: 0743201116 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Shapeshifter Tarot by D. J. Conway, Sirona Knight, Lisa Hunt ISBN: 1567183840 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Sacred Circle Tarot: A Celtic Pagan Journey by Anna Franklin, Paul Mason ISBN: 156718457X Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Waking the Wild Spirit Tarot: Discover the Magic in Nature by Poppy Palin ISBN: 0738700975 Publisher: Llewellyn Publications Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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