Mark McElroy

Barbara Moore

Marcus Katz

Tali Goodwin

Giordano Berti

Lo Scarabeo

Sasha Graham

Riccardo Minetti

A labor of love ten years in the making, Tarot Fundamentals is Lo Scarabeo's authoritative compilation of tarot knowledge. With thorough perspectives on tarot history, reading, spiritual work, card meanings, and more, this full-color volume is an indispensible reference for beginners and adepts alike. Includes more than 400 color illustrations and contributions from a wide range of tarot experts, including Sasha Graham, Barbara Moore, Mark McElroy, Marcus Katz, Tali Goodwin, Giordano Berti, and Riccardo Minetti. Tarot is a living tradition, forever evolving and growing. This resource book shows that tarot is always reinventing itself while never forgetting its origins.

Tarot Fundamentals

Patrizio (ART) Evangelisti

The Golden Dawn is one of the most influential and respected systems of magic in the world. Inspired by the Esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, this magical tarot captures the esoteric spirituality and mysticism of an ancient yet vibrant tradition. This stunning tarot offers a path—built on the tenets of high magic—that leads to transformation and enlightenment. Deluxe edition (4½ x 6 7/10) includes 78 full-color cards, instructions, and an embroidered satin bag Publisher Review #1: The concept of this deck is fascinating. A knowledgeable deck designer and historian, Giordano Berti, used primary source material to create instructions and direction for an artist who has not viewed other versions of Golden Dawn or Golden Dawn-tradition-based decks. This allows for an entirely fresh composition and depiction of these meanings, including illustrated pips. This deck moves away from numeric pips, expanding on the original design (just as Waite and Smith did) to create the first truly all-pictorial Golden Dawn deck What an exciting technique to create a deck that is based on a specific foundation but not derivative. Is this what the tarot world has been waiting for? Is this a step in evolution for tarot, a way to break out of the clone rut? Time and usage by readers will tell. . . . read more. Publisher Review #2: Before discussing the deck itself, I'd like to look at the LWB (Little White Booklet) that accompanies the deck. Because Lo Scarabeo sends decks all over the world, their LWBs are in multiple languages, resulting, unfortunately, in even less information than is found in decks from other publishers. This one, however, uses its limited space very effectively. It doesn't describe the symbolism on each card (you can look at the card), but does give the divinatory meaning based on the Golden Dawn system. The creative force behind the deck, Giordano Bertia, only gave basic information about the meanings of the cards to artist Patrizio Evangelisti, so on this basis, the deck is a Golden Dawn deck. The LWB also includes an original six-card spread called the "Method of the Rosacroce." It has a unique method of selecting the cards for the layout, but the meaning of the positions for the cards is fairly mundane. . . . . read more.

Initiatory Tarot of the Golden Dawn Deluxe

Ramses: Tarot of Eternity Artwork by Severino Baraldi Text by Giordano Berti Like the Pharaoh who expanded the Egyptian empire, Ramses: Tarot of Eternity pushes the boundaries of Egyptian-themed tarot decks with amazing beauty and utility. Artist Severino Baraldi does not imitate Egyptian art styles, but creates snapshots of the past using detailed research and a realistic style that help you step into the past to find patterns indicating the future. Giordano Berti blends Egyptian mythology, rituals, and ancient esoteric formulas with the symbolic structure developed by 19th century French occultists, making this deck surprisingly easy to use. ISBN 0-7387-0284-6 $19.95 U.S., $31.95 Can. Boxed deck includes 78 full-color cards and instruction booklet

Tarot of Eternity/Tarot De LA Eternidad

Ramses

Originally commissioned to Bonifacio Bembo by Francesco Sforza, Duke in Milan in A.D. 1450, the Visconti Tarots are considered one of the greatest and most extraordinary examples of Renaissance Art. The meaning and history of the beautiful allegories remained a mystery for years, inspiring countless generations to study the Tarot and medieval symbolism. It is rare howev... more ?er that the worlds of art history and divination, so different from one another, walk hand in hand. In this book the esoterist Tiberio Gonard explores the Divinatory meanings of the most ancient Tarot deck in existence, showing the original structure of this complex discipline. Giordano Berti, one of the most important Tarot historian in the work, introduces the scientific and historical research on symbolism and Tarot history, gathered over years of study on the original documents of the Italian Renaissance

Extraordinary Examples of Renaissance Art

Visconti Tarots

Tiberio Gonard

Raul Cestaro

Gianluca Cestaro

Lo Scarabeo Staff

The beginner will find a logical step-by-step guide for each Arcanum and a series of divinatory spreads for various types of problems. The expert, using the individual symbolic references of the elements hidden until now, will draw suggestions and inspiration for a better understanding of the Tarot's limitless and magical horizon. Book jacket.

Tarot of the New Vision

Bepi Vigna

Pietro Alligo

This handsome hardcover celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Lo Scarabeo, a company that has taken tarot to new heights in originality, beauty, and experimentation since 1987. Featuring more than 300 sketches, preliminary drawings, and works in progress, this book offers a rare glimpse inside the creative process for developing new decks. This esteemed Italian publisher also shares little-known facts about their company history and humble origins. Best of all, Lo Scarabeo offers their own unique perspective on tarot—reflecting on its versatile applications, esoteric symbolism, wide-ranging art, and fascinating evolution through the centuries.

The Lo Scarabeo Story

Twenty Years of Tarot

Tibero Gonard

This kit combines Alasia's incredible deck with the in-depth studies of Berti and Gonard. These authors guide us through the magic of the cards. Explore the mysteries of ancient Egyptian knowledge as they are revealed Arcanum after Arcanum through the description of an enchanting initiatory rite. Kit includes 78 full-color cards and 160 page book. Publisher Review: One of the first books I read when I began studying occultism was The History and Practice of Magic by Paul Christian. This was the Anglicized name of Jean Baptiste Pitois for a book first published in France in 1870, seven years before his death. The reason I liked it was because of the dramatic and imaginative writing style, part of which included a fascinating, fantastic, and almost phantasmagorical story of initiation in ancient Egypt that merged...read more.

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