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Summary: Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Way of An
Review: It is amazing how accurate this book and the cards are. I highly recommend the reading/cards for anyone who has the slightest desire to learn about the power and teachings of animals.
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Summary: Excellent Product
Review: Jamie Sam's Medicine Cards are a wonderful way to start your day and learn more about your animal guides as well as yourself. They are thought provoking, positive and educational. My partner and I don't miss a day without reading them. They are not "future reading cards" are tarot type. They are keys to learning to better live your life in a spiritual manner with grace and beauty in all things you choose to do.
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Summary: A Must-Have!
Review: Jamie Sams & David Carson have done a wonderful job in Medicine Cards. The artwork is beautiful & the stories are very engaging. I have used these cards for many years, and they have helped me to bring peace & balance into my life. Everyone I have introduced them to has been just as impressed as I have. None had bought any of their own, yet but that is about to change...now that I can tell them where they can be purchased. Thank you, Amazon! Now I can get my original set back from my best friend who borrowed them!
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Summary: Beautiful book and cards!
Review: Just bought this set, and was so impressed with it from the start that I can't seem to put it down. Not only is it beautifully written, but the artwork on the cards is amazing. I am already convinced that I will be using these cards daily (once I finish the book). Fascinating subject matter that goes right to the soul. A must have!
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Summary: An excelent tarot deck!
Review: Medicine cards are one of the best tarots that I have found. Of course it can be used to foretell what's in store for you, but even our future may change as we walk in life. Medicine cards are great for INSIGHT. Ask them about a situation you are going through and they will explain to you what you are experiencing and/or learning about in that situation. These cards are SO helpful, they can put you back in track, and always in very very positive way! They can tell you, for example, to take things less seriously, or to stop lolling around and start doing what you really want to do, or to learn to put boundaries and to say no, without having to apologize! Please give them a try! They will most definitely ease your mind, suggest the right direction, teach you about yourself, and ALWAYS in the most easy-going, funny and uplifting way! :-)
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Summary: A deck to be approached with great, great respect.
Review: My first introduction to totemism was a group of pagans I hung around with in college. Some of them were really, really enthusiastic about this deck, but I only picked one up for myself within the last few years. I even did my senior thesis on the idea of personal, urban totemism. And even with all that, "Medicine Cards" scare the heck out of me. Unless you believe that the only important totem animals are the ones that you can find on belt buckles (Eagle, Bear, Random Big Cat, etc.), there's no real Major Arcana/Minor Arcana distinction here. Every single card in this deck is big ju-ju. My first two readings kinda freaked me out, really. If archetypes, animal mythos and anthropomorphism are pretty much second-nature to you, just give up and get this deck. You will probably understand the cards without needing to check the book all that often. Unless there was a slip-up at the publisher's, the standard deck does not come with a little reference pamphlet like most tarot decks do. It comes with a medium-sized hard back book (A nice treat, but not convenient for lugging around spontaneously -- this could be why they made the "Just for Today" deck) that explains each card, including an occasional story, and some spreads and an exercise to figure out which totem animals represent you in this spread. Two of three totems that I'd already figured out for myself showed up in the exercise, and the third was kinda iffy for me at that point anyway. The cards are 5.5" by 3" and have an alarmingly boring back -- government blue with a single yellow lightening bolt. They're coated with something incredibly shiny, but aren't particularly slippery. There are 52 cards in the deck, plus 9 blanks so that you can fill it in with any animals that you think are missing. They're almost a little too large for me to shuffle them easily (and I've been told that I have large hands for my gender). The book's table of contents tells you what animals are included. The artwork works inwards from a white boarder to a thinner red boarder that also bisects the interior design. The top half of the inside is sky-blue, and the bottom is an earth-tone green. In the middle is a Medicine Shield inside which is a picture of the featured animal spirit. Above, in the blue, along with the number of the card, is the aniamls name in a black script font. The artwork is good. It's not cute, and it's not dazzlingly beautiful in a way that draws me, but I'm still impressed with this deck for all my nitpicky comments. If you think you're up for the challenge, I recommend "Medicine Cards."
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Summary: good cards but didn't care for the book
Review: Okay I loved these cards and the spreads that the book gives out are great. However I don't agree with the authors philosphy nor do I paticularily care for the way she writes about the animals. For one I happen to think highly of the coyote but she writes it as if whenever it shows up in a spread it meens bad things are going to happen. I also think she is going by one tribe since the Raven is also known as a trickster and is considered even more 'evil' in some than the coyote. I recommend to get Ted Andrews book along with this deck, his interpation of the animals is a lot more through.
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Summary: True Divination Truth
Review: Some of the oldest lessons on Earth are held by creatures from
our everyday lives. Their stories and messages create new pathways in our lives or help us to see things in a different light.
Divination of some sort or another has been around for centuries, these cards and book give one good tools to use in our modern times.
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Summary: My favorite Native American oracle/guide
Review: The artwork is beautiful! The hardcover book included in the slipcase is definitely made to last. My only quibble is the fact that not all the animals assigned to the medicine wheel were included. They do include a few blank cards for you to draw your own non-included animals, but I am hopeless as a free-hand artist & the coated cardstock doesn't lend itself to many mediums.
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Summary: An Alternative Tarot
Review: The thing that initally drew me to this deck was the fact that is based on teaching for Native American tribes. Among them ar the Cherokee and Chickasaw, which I have ancestry in. I'd tried working with several different types of decks, but never found one that spoke to me until I held this one in my hand. This deck does not function in the way that most tarot decks do. Instead of dividing the deck into minor and major arcana and using suites (pentacles, cups, ect), this deck is meant to be read a whole. You will find nothing but animals in this deck, everything from the ant to the dolphin. Each animal has a lesson. It may be leadership, stamina, self-reflection or innocence to name a few. This lesson is referred to as that particular animal's medicine. The medicine referred to throughout this deck is anything that will strengthen the reader's connection to the Great Spirit and to all life. By incorporating these lessons into your own life you will learn about yourself as well as those around you. There are also blank shields for you to add any animals that you feel a connection to that are left out of the deck, or if you wish to design your own personal medicine shield they can be used for that. The book contains spread for finding your nine totem animals, and various spreads that are influenced by the teachings of the Native American tribes (the Sun Lodge spread for example is for how others see you, while the Moon Lodge spread is a mirror of you. I have used this deck for well over a year now and find its medicine has helped me along my path. If you're interested in Shamanism I would definately suggest this deck. It would work well for those interested in animal guides, totem animals or the teaching of Native American tribes.
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