Lo Scarabeo Tarot of Marseilles

Tarot cards come in all manner of designs these days and most people have quite a difficult time choosing their first pack of cards often waiting until a pack jumps out at them. As a tarot collector I am finding that the more modern the design the further away I get from the original idea of divination cards. Some may argue that in these modern times the problems we have are different to the past but I feel that nothing has changed much. We all still worry about our love lives, our kids and if we will be a financial success. There seems there is a pack for every area of our lives but what about an all round divination set? The Marseilles pack is at first ...  Read the complete review

My interest in learning about the Tarot was largely inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky's spectacular film 'The Holy Mountain', and the short documentary on the Tarot of Marseilles which accompanies it in the Tartan box set. I'd been intrigued by Tarot cards before, but had been put off actually buying any as the decks I'd seen around often didn't have artwork that I felt I could like. I noticed the Marseilles Tarot looked sort of like the type of cards used in old horror films, which appealed to me, along with the fact it was very old. The Tarot of Marseilles is not the first 78 card deck but seems to be the first that was mass-produced and circulated far and ...  Read the complete review