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Cards of Alchemy      2003 Raymond Buckland      USA                                                   Art Medium: Pen drawings coloured with watercolour. Description: Set of fifty cards with no tarot structure created through colouring redrawn versions of alchemical illustrations, for Raymond Buckland, the well-known Gardnerian Wiccan from the USA and creator of the Buckland Romani Tarot also published by Llewellyn. There are five 'trumps' or 'Majors' - Execute, Balance, Observe, Harmonize, and Master (earth, spirit, air, water and fire) while the 'Minors' are divided into five suits of nine cards each, named Alembic, Tree, Retort, Egg and Athanor.