The Beatles Tarot

A month ago, I received an email from someone named Russ asking me about a tarot card review on my website. He said that he had done a Google search and found my website, but when he looked on my site, he didn’t see it. He went on to say that his son has created a set of Beatles Tarot cards and a companion book and asked if I had reviewed it. Uh….no! The reason he found my site was because of my review of the book by Yoko’s tarot card reader, but hey…I love tarot cards…and asked about his son’s website.

So here’s my back story…I’ve always had decks of tarot cards since I was a teenager (over 35 years). At one point in my early 20’s, I actually became quite good at reading them until a really spooky incident on New Year’s Day 1986  happened and I stopped. I picked it back up in my 30’s and then life got too busy to be bothered with reading. I still have my favorite deck…Legend: The Arthurian Tarot. The deck was given to me by a friend and they say that the best decks are ones given to you by a friend. I’ve had other decks, but never warmed up to them.

The point of telling you about me and my decks is to let you know that I’m no stranger to tarot decks, so when I went to look at this new Beatles Tarot site, I went in with my eyes wide open. (Note: If I really wanted to dig into the HTML code of this guy’s website, I could probably put a pic or two of his deck, but since he coded it so that it’s not easily accessible, I’ll assume he wouldn’t appreciate me posting any).

Several things caught my eye (and ear) after looking through the cards, which he displays every card he created in the 78 card deck. First off, he has music and interviews playing on each page, which I found terribly distracting. My next thought as I looked through the minor arcana cards was that I couldn’t find a real link between the images he created and the meaning of the cards (remember, I know how to read cards). His major arcana is pretty decent. My third thought was, “I hope Apple doesn’t see this, because he’s going to get a cease and desist letter from them!” I expressed these last two thoughts to Russ, the creators father and never heard from him again. I could have asked for a complimentary deck to review since I have no idea what the quality of the actual deck is, but I knew from what I had seen that I would never use it and I’m not into getting something for nothing just because I’m a reviewer.

So there is my story about this deck. My advice is to go to the website and check it out for yourself. Hopefully, you won’t find the background noise as annoying as I did. If you’re really into tarot decks or really into collecting all things Beatles, then by all means, buy a set! My guess is that after word gets out, Apple is going to put the kibosh on this and it will be a collector’s item!

Wouldn’t it be interesting to ask John Green what he thinks of this deck?

No review…no rating!