UNUSUAL ANIMAL MESSAGES by Manda Comisari

This is an amazing and very different deck and card set. The artist has chosen to honour lots of obscure, seemingly awkward, but immensely loveable animals with beautiful portraits and then affirmations or statements linked with those animals or inspired by the poses they are striking. The animals include warthogs, cockroaches, dung beetles, aye-ayes, jellyfish and axolotls. The images are charming and the affirmations fairly simple, like You Are More Resilient Than You Think and Your Voice Has Power. You would pick a card to help you in a situation and to get intuitive help on which course of action to take. But when the message comes from such charming and gutsy creatures, it makes you smile and I think it becomes even more encouraging. This would make a great gift.

54 full-colour cards and a 64-page guide, 2022