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Card Gallery: The New Clow
Card Meanings:
bookofclow.com
My favorite divination deck of all time is the Clow Card oracle deck. The deck is a reproduction of the cards in a Japanese anime called Card Captors Sakura. It was the second divination deck I bought, and it's the one I use most. I purchased mine from a Japanese import store in LA when the show was at it's most popular. A quick look on ebay shows that the Japanese set I own has been marked up considerably. For those interested there are knock off reproductions, but the colors and shading are different, and I don't think they look nearly as nice.
The deck did not come with any instructions, but as each card is a single noun, verb or elemental, the meanings can be easily deduced. I remember looking up the meanings when I first got them, but I never used them. I prefer to read them intuitively, and it works out quite well.
While using my Clow Card deck the other morning I decided I would recreate them and scale them down. The cards are a bit large and came in a hard cardboard case shaped like a book. The book and cards together are just not portable. I still take them with me on vacation, but they take up a lot of real estate.
There are 52 Clow Cards in the original set, not counting Sakura's cards, so I knew by scaling them down to poker card size, I could get it printed cheaply and the cards would be more portable. Originally I thought I would just scan my cards, dissect them and then collage them back together in a poker sized card. That however didn't sit right with me. So I thought I would redraw them and restyle them.
The Cards:
**Links broken, use gallery link at top.**
04 April 2013:
-Retextured all Cards.
-Added Earthy, Erase, and Fight.
23 April 2013:
-Added: Card Back, The Firey, The Float, and The Flower
05 May 2013:
-Added: Light, Little, Lock, Loop
-Added link to demo website.
14 September 2013:
-Added: The Maze, The Mirror and The Mist
13 Dec 2013:
-Fixed website
-Added: The Move, and The Nothing
16 Dec 2013:
-Added: The Power, and The Rain
-Fixed website scroll bug on Android.
-Updated Side By Sides
7 July 2014:
-Added: The Return and the Sand
-Updated website to show v5 images
9 July 2014:
-Added card back comparison
20 Jan 2015
-Added 9 cards: The Shadow, The Shield, The Shot, The Silent, The Snow, The Song, The Storm and The Wave.
26 Jan 2015
-Added 4 cards. The Sweet, The Sword, The Through and The Wood.
-Edited and updated some existing cards like The Erase and The Firey.
Card Meanings:
bookofclow.com
My favorite divination deck of all time is the Clow Card oracle deck. The deck is a reproduction of the cards in a Japanese anime called Card Captors Sakura. It was the second divination deck I bought, and it's the one I use most. I purchased mine from a Japanese import store in LA when the show was at it's most popular. A quick look on ebay shows that the Japanese set I own has been marked up considerably. For those interested there are knock off reproductions, but the colors and shading are different, and I don't think they look nearly as nice.
The deck did not come with any instructions, but as each card is a single noun, verb or elemental, the meanings can be easily deduced. I remember looking up the meanings when I first got them, but I never used them. I prefer to read them intuitively, and it works out quite well.
While using my Clow Card deck the other morning I decided I would recreate them and scale them down. The cards are a bit large and came in a hard cardboard case shaped like a book. The book and cards together are just not portable. I still take them with me on vacation, but they take up a lot of real estate.
There are 52 Clow Cards in the original set, not counting Sakura's cards, so I knew by scaling them down to poker card size, I could get it printed cheaply and the cards would be more portable. Originally I thought I would just scan my cards, dissect them and then collage them back together in a poker sized card. That however didn't sit right with me. So I thought I would redraw them and restyle them.
The Cards:
**Links broken, use gallery link at top.**
04 April 2013:
-Retextured all Cards.
-Added Earthy, Erase, and Fight.
23 April 2013:
-Added: Card Back, The Firey, The Float, and The Flower
05 May 2013:
-Added: Light, Little, Lock, Loop
-Added link to demo website.
14 September 2013:
-Added: The Maze, The Mirror and The Mist
13 Dec 2013:
-Fixed website
-Added: The Move, and The Nothing
16 Dec 2013:
-Added: The Power, and The Rain
-Fixed website scroll bug on Android.
-Updated Side By Sides
7 July 2014:
-Added: The Return and the Sand
-Updated website to show v5 images
9 July 2014:
-Added card back comparison
20 Jan 2015
-Added 9 cards: The Shadow, The Shield, The Shot, The Silent, The Snow, The Song, The Storm and The Wave.
26 Jan 2015
-Added 4 cards. The Sweet, The Sword, The Through and The Wood.
-Edited and updated some existing cards like The Erase and The Firey.