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While I love the imagery of this deck, and would have given it five stars based on the artwork alone, I found the book to be somewhat off-putting. Most people I know who use tarot consult the cards over personal matters -- love, career, etc. -- so it's frustrating to open the book, looking for an interpretation, and find a lecture on conservation instead. For example, the interpretation for the six of stones is as follows: "The human race’s capacity to exploit planetary resources to our own detriment is motivated by a flawed belief that we have the right to do so. As we begin to come to terms with the profound effects of global climate change and the irreversible effects this will have on our children’s lives, the human race still struggles to deal with the unresolved issues of how to feed the new human beings born every year. How we will resource the education, health and social service requirements of the entire generations to come seems like a question too painful to even to think about. With world financial systems and safeguards breaking down, and faith in any government to tell the truth and act with integrity severely damaged, or social more codes and once-familiar cultural ‘norms’ appear under enormous strain." Yes, humans are a scourge upon the Earth. I'm not disagreeing with that. However, I don't need the tarot to tell me this. I don't pull out my decks because I'm itching for a lecture, and to do a personal spread and then stumble across an interpretation like this feels like a slap in the face. It's understandable that the first part of the book expounds on the environmental issues that helped inspire the deck, but I don't think the lecture should extend to the interpretation of the individual cards. I feel like the creators got so caught up in their own soapbox agenda that they forgot the purpose of the tarot in general. And since I'm rarely in the mood for a self-righteous lecture, I haven't used the deck at all since the first few days after purchase.