The above photo is of a few cards from the Romantic Tarot by Lo Scarabeo. It's not a deck I'd normally be drawn to, but Brianna was in the mood for a new deck on Saturday and she pulled this one off the shelf. She felt so drawn to it that she had to open it immediately. We started looking through it right away and I was amazed at how cool a deck it really is!
It's mostly pastels (not my preferred color choice, for sure) and set in various places (cities and countryside) in Europe in the late 19th/early 20th Centuries. You can see by the dress code of the folks inside. :-)
It's definitely not a deck for only readings on romance, so don't be fooled by the title! I'm sure it's called that only because of it being set in the "romance" time of history.
We did a rather in-depth reading with the deck and were amazed at what we pulled out of the cards. Here are just a few we pulled at random to show the spectacular-ness of this deck:
The first card on the left is The Devil. You can tell she's a bit of a temptress with the spotlight on her. Next up is The Moon, set in Paris. It, rather eloquently, shows the Moon behind the Eiffel Tower, with the lovers enthralled with each other beneath Her glow. The middle card is The Star. The compass on the ground shows that off magnificently, particularly in tandem with the couple's shadow superimposed.
Then we have the queen of Pentacles. Doesn't she just look like she's totally in charge of her domain? And the last card is the Three of Swords. Just wow! You might not be able to see it above, but there's hints of blood where the swordsmen have done their jobs; the woman's heartache of her gravely injured, perhaps killed, lover lies; and the other man's triumph. We took this card to be a duel for the woman's favors, although it doesn't have to be that at all.
I just had to write this blog about a wonderful deck that I've had on the shelf for a little while and now can't rave enough about. It's one I'll definitely be getting back in, and will be picking one up for myself. Such a great deck!
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