"The Only Way Out Is Through." Such are the words with which the author concludes her introduction to this deck. There is great wisdom here, wisdom won at a price, which is perhaps the most valuable kind. Can a deck of cards transform your life? No, no more than can LSD, yoga, Kierkegaard or quantum electrodynamics. But, in the mind of one open to new ideas, willing to look in new directions, and, in all honesty, ready to make the sacrifices that must be made to acquire new wisdom and understanding, any of those things can lead to a completely new way of looking at the world, and at one's own self. That's the kind of deck this is; it isn't reading tea leaves, or changing your inner child's diapers. Behind these pretty pictures is the wisdom of the ancients. Take a look around yourself and ask, what will be left when it is all gone? The answer is that what comes and goes is illusory and transitory, but wisdom and understanding are forever. It is that quality of enduring thought that gives these cards their power.