Labyrinth – Tarot Deck and Guidebook by Minerva Siegel
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Okay, I’m going to start this review off by pointing out my personal bias – I love the Labyrinth movie, I love David Bowie, and because of those things I already have a fondness for this tarot deck. The art is also inspired by Brian Froud and he does the foreword, so there is another thing in favor of this deck.

I used this tarot deck for my daily draws for two months to get a good feel for it, and I truly loved it. There are a couple of quirks I will point out, though. This deck follows the basic Rider-Waite-Smith standard, but with two changes on the cards. The Labyrinth is meant to be fantasy movie, so The Lovers were changed to The Dancers, and Death was changed to Fate. Which, honestly went better with the theming of the deck, but took me a few tries to read the cards when I pulled them.

As with most guidebooks there are some themed spreads at the end of the book, for fun and a quick start to get reading. While interesting, they aren’t anything new. There’s a basic three card draw that’s relabeled, and then a couple others to find the “hidden meaning” behind the doors of truth and lies (that one was kind of fun). The guidebook does have reversed meanings for the cards, which I do appreciate, though I don’t always use reversed meanings myself when I draw.

This is basically a long, drawn-out way of telling you I went into this review already liking the deck and my view has not changed after using it. It is what’s on the packaging, it’s a novelty tarot deck, but I like it that way.

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