Okay, so, I got this new tarot deck the other day. It’s called the “Lo Scarabeo Tarot,” and I was really excited to try it out. I’d heard some good things about it, like how it’s supposed to be a mix of some of the most popular tarot styles, like the Marseillaise, Waite-Smith, and Crowley-Harris decks. I thought, “Cool, I can get a little bit of everything!”
The first thing I did was just look at the cards. The art is by this Italian painter, Roberto de Angelis, and it’s pretty modern looking. I started flipping through them, trying to get a feel for the imagery. I did a little digging online to see what other people had to say, too. Just some quick searches, you know? I found some reviews on forums and blogs and looked at some pictures of the cards other people had posted.
I decided to do a simple reading for myself, just to see how the deck felt. I shuffled the cards, focused on a question I had, and pulled a few. One of the cards I got was the Wheel of Fortune. I know that one can mean different things depending on the deck, but generally, it’s about destiny, luck, and change. It made me think about how things are always changing, and how sometimes you just have to go with the flow.
I also pulled the Death card, which, I know, sounds scary, but it’s not really about literal death. It’s more about letting go of old stuff to make room for new things. It felt relevant to what I was asking about, so that was interesting. With this specific deck, I understood that it wanted to indicate that a new life might be around the corner, so I should let go of the past.
Then I was searching around the internet, and found out that the deck was first published in 2007, and a gold foil version came out more recently. I also found out that the Rider-Waite Tarot was first published in 1909, by A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith, who were in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. I’m not really into all that mystical stuff, but it’s kind of cool to know the history behind it all.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with the Lo Scarabeo Tarot. It felt good to use, and I think it’ll be a good deck for me to learn with. It’s like a bridge between all these different tarot traditions, and I like that it brings them all together. I’m still figuring out all the meanings of the cards and how they relate to each other, but that’s part of the fun, right?
