Every card in The Secret Tarots has its own soul and a voice that whispers forgotten things to the hearts of all who will listen. With images reminiscent of everything from Lord Byron to Mad Max, the ancient archetypes are dressed in new clothes. These cards represent the journey along an esoteric path leading to the understanding of secrets from the past, present, and future.
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Since 1987, Art Publisher Lo Scarabeo has published over 100 Tarot decks that have been acclaimed all over the world for originality and quality. Only the best Italian and International artists are selected for our new decks, and the result is that Lo Scarabeo's decks are all recognizable as an exceptional artistic value.TraditionOne of Lo Scarabeo's goals is the preservation of traditional Tarot decks.DevelopmentNew decks and ideas are continually gathered from all over the world. This allows Lo Scarabeo to produce some of the most innovative decks available today.QualityLo Scarabeo is committed to ever increasing quality and beauty of their products.Distribution*Llewellyn is the exclusive distributor of Lo Scarabeo products in North America.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Cards
This is a very beautiful, acurate deck. Using the card meanings found in the included booklet, this deck is deadly accurate. So much so that I work with it almost exclusivly these days, although it's naturally wise to have another deck to fall back on. In fact, a few friends and myself were using them to 'cheat' at a basketball game, and they were accurate every time.
The artwork is just fabulous, too. Just goin' through the deck without doing a reading is fun just to look at the beauty of the cards. The magickian and temperance cards are deffinatly two of the most beautiful cards I've seen in any deck.
Also, they are fairly easy to read.
My only complaint is that the included booklette is absoloutly non-informative. It includes the intended meanings for the cards in about a two-three word description, and they are generally far from the traditional meanings, which can leave a beginner very... confused, to say the least.
However, if you don't mind a slightly non-traditional deck (never been a traditionalist, personally) and you know enough about the tarot via your own translations or the traditional ones, which you can find online, then you'll love this deck. I did.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I have about 35 tarot decks at the time of this review and the Secret tarot is my trusty, faithful favorite. This deck has given me more breakthroughs than any other... and I have almost no idea why. At fist glance it seems slightly comic bookish in style with a lot of pale white women. Also rather than getting stuck in a pseudo-renaissance it seems to exist in all times as Julie Taymor's Titus does.
Some of the symbolism incorporated is just brilliant and was revealed slowly, a little at a time over a long period. I wondered what was going on with the Ace of swords... a sword is stuck in a piece of stone work with an engraving of a strange bird-man creature devouring a fish on it. This boggled me until one day I looked and got it, the bird (air intellect logic) devours the fish (emotion, felling, understanding) and thus the card represents a triumph of the mind over the emotions. The otter on Temperence was a wonderful idea: a creature that can survive both on land (solidity) and water (emotion again) but has been largeley forced to retreat to the waters (emotion) when it is in danger. I preferred not to use the little white book at all (read the first paragraph of it once) when learning with this deck, I had a much better time observing the cards on my own.
I try to read with a number of decks so that I can continue to get new information from the cards but the Secret Tarot is the one I turn to when I want to know what is going on.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By "aszanik"
Format:Cards
a beautiful deck...the symbolism is very similar to popular decks like Rider Waite (Wands, Pentacles, Cups, Swords - e.g. 8 of Swords is a woman surrounded by swords imbeded in the earth)...the illustrations seem to be a blend of watercolor and markers not unlike the high quality illustrations found in graphic novels...the women are protrayed for the most part gothically... the deck draws on various periods - 18th and 19th Centuries, the Crusades and Medieval court images...yet it all seems to work together...not an ideal introductory deck but a good one if you're thinking about experimenting
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Regarding the Secret Tarot
I recently recieved Secret Tarot deck,and I was very dissapointed when I saw my purchase does not include a guidebook to further your ability in reading the tarot cards. Read more
Published on Feb 11 2011 by sonia
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Really cool dark deck
This deck has some of the most striking art work of any deck I've come across. Very gothic. Some of the cards such as the Moon are very beautiful. Read more
Published on Jan 30 2003 by invictus
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CosmicCards.com LOVES this deck!
This is an interesting deck that uses the traditional titles printed on the cards in 5 languages (English, Italian, French, German and Spanish). Read more
Published on April 4 2002 by Jo-Anne Penn-Kast
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