前幾天，我請好朋友Haindl寄偉特牌給我時，他送了我一副德國進口的Kitty Kahane Tarot。超開心的我～

這副牌，真的很可愛。他還真瞭解我，知道我喜歡這種Fu的牌，哈哈！

今天因為強烈颱風的關係，我接獲安排要去企業公司演講行程臨時取消的通知，台中市有九級強風呼嘯著，外頭呼呼吹，我只好乖乖待在家，泡著印度帶回來的頂級阿薩姆，加一半牛奶，喝著茶，研究著這一副超可愛的牌～

這副可愛的牌，充滿童趣。

而畫這副牌的畫家，就叫做Kitty（有她自己的網站），很卡哇依名字的大孩子畫出卡哇依的牌。

她是個1960年10月14日，在德國柏林出生的藝術家

畫者：Kitty Kahane

Kitty Kahane is a professional artist and graphic designer living in Berlin. She was born 1960, grew up in Berlin and spent most of her life there. She had both hands-on training in product design and an art school diploma. She does lots of product design and advertisement campaign design, but also original art, both painting and sculpture.

作者：Lilo Schwarz

Lilo Schwarz is a swiss Psychologist and Tarot expert. She is regularly holding tarot workshops and reading for clients.

牌的介紹

The Kitty Kahane Tarot is a German language Tarot deck published by AGMüller Urania Verlag February 2006. Basically it’s a Rider Waite Deck clone with simplified pictures but an altered colour scheme.

The deck is standard size, cardstock and printing quality are good. Like all Urania decks, it’s quite slippery and cardstock quality comes near to good quality playing cards. It comes in a cardboard slipcase box which is slightly bigger than the deck to accomodate the LWB. There’s a cardboard inlay to keep the deck in place.

Obviously the current version isn’t meant to be marketed internationally, because the card titles are German only, and it was not possible to obtain further information. Most probably specialized tarot sellers will sell it worldwide anyway.

The art is rough and reduced to just the pastels, but still skillfully done. The colour palette is limited and quite weird. The main colours are baby blue, baby pink, pastel lilac and pastel petrol green. Additional colours are saturated light blue, saturated red-violet, mustard yellow, light and dark green. All these colours appear in varying hues. This looks better than it sounds, but people who don’t like those colours (or their combination) in massive ammounts may find it hard to appreciate this deck. Most of the persons on the cards have a sour, sincere or indifferent facial expression and often very off the wall facial colours, such as green or blue, which looks wierd in a "light-hearted" deck. Both the deck and the LWB have a decidedly feminine feel, and seem to be intended to be marketed to women, but it’s not openly "feministc", and not at all anti-male. The card backs are not really reversible0. The sun in the middle of them has a face, but that’s not too obvious.

the 60 pages LWB has a thumpnail sized colour picture of every card and two paragraphs of card meaning about every card. The meanings are firmly based on the RWS meanings, but have a self-help slant. It also has a page about each creator, instructions on how to use tarot and 6 original spreads. It should be enough to get a beginner started.

The Major Arcana are Rider Waite Smith style, exept the fact that 8 is Justice and 11 is strength, and a few small changes. The Lovers wear clothes, for example. they have two text boxes as wide as the card, the one at the top with a roman numeral, one at the bottom with the (german) card title. Most of the Minor Arcana are even closer to the Waite Smith originals, including the elemental attributions. They have no text box, only a small roman numeral somewhere on the card. Court cards are the same as the rider Waite ones. They and the Aces have one text box at the bottom of the card with the card title. Close inspection reveals that this tarot was created or designed by someone who knows her stuff about tarot, and it’s more deep and witty than it seems at the first glance.

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