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Galaxies Tarot      2007 Fang Yu      China                                                   Art Medium: Astronomical photographs. Description: This is from the same publisher/artist as the Maschera Tarot and Carnevale Tarot. Each card bears a photograph of an astronomical object. This idea has already been explored by Kay Stopforth in her Universe cards oracle deck of 1999. The Galaxies Tarot attempts to make an entire tarot deck out of astronomical photographs. Some card images work quite well, a comet for 'The Chariot', Jupiter's complex atmospheric pattern for 'The Wheel of Fortune', but with the Minor Arcana it has obviously proven more difficult to assign a photograph of a galaxy, nebula or dust cloud to reflect any meaning associated with the card. So one just has to take delight in the beautiful images themselves. The cards are laminated with the same sparkly laminate used in the other decks by this artist. In some lighting conditions when looked at face on, the sparkles somewhat interfere with viewing the image itself, but by holding them at a slight angle the sparkles disappear and the picture can be clearly seen.