Epic Tarot | Review
Decks , Review , Tarot / 26 March 2016

Naming your tarot deck the Epic Tarot creates a certain kind of expectation. Lo Scarabeo’s Riccardo Minetti and Universal Fantasy Tarot-artist Paolo Martinello explain the title with “exploring universal questions through delightful art (…), the Epic Tarot Deck is full of nuance and hidden depths. And: ‘discover a newly imagined approach to the fool’s journey that releases the linear bonds of rank and opens the spirit to new connections (..).’ Yeah that indeed *sounds* epic. Let’s…

Tarot Experience campaign starts
News , Tarot / 18 February 2016

UPDATE FEB 23rd: it has started today. The campaign is almost to its first goal in less than 4 hours. Want to joint in the fun, then pledge away. The Kickstarter campaign for Tarot Experience, the second volume of the Lo Scarabeo Tarot Encyclopedia, after Tarot Fundamentals, will be launched next week.  The publisher, the Italian Lo Scarabeo, states on his Facebook page that with Tarot Experience they want to make “the ultimate book about tarot ever published!” Just like with the other Kickstarter campaign, making a pledge will guarantee you’ll get access to exclusive content for backers only, special collector decks and more! To find out the link watch the Lo Scarabeo Facebook page.   FacebookPinterestTwitterStumbleUponLinkedinemailTumblr

Tarot Gallery 2010 | Galleria dei Tarocchi
Books , Review , Tarot / 21 January 2016

Most tarot and oracle readers have an almost insatiable appetite for images. Tarot images that is (although yours truly can enjoy every type of art). While we have our ‘go-to’ decks, whether we are diviners or readers with a focus on personal growth, we can still enjoy that wonderful art and symbology in different decks. And most of us turn in to deck-buying-addicts because of it. Lo Scarabeo understood that and created a wonderful coffee table art book called Tarot Gallery or Galleria dei Tarocchi (edition 2010). To be honest, I have always been a little jealous of those people with wonderfully decorated…

Kickstarter in February for Tarot Experience
News , Tarot / 12 January 2016

Did you miss the first Tarot Fundamentals Kickstarter campaign? Are you still bummed out about that? Or did you pledge number 1 and are you eager to back the second volume? If you answered yes to any of the aforementioned questions: pay attention.

The ink is barely dry on the first volume of Lo Scarabeo’s love-project or we are being treated on the second installment. Again via Kickstarter. The new campaign will start in February of this year, 2016. So pay close

Tarot Fundamentals | Review
Books , Review , Tarot / 5 January 2016

Precious few books were so eagerly anticipated as Tarot Fundamentals. Unless you count one of the installments of the Harry Potter series… But I am pretty sure that in the Tarot community Tarot Fundamentals gave J.K Rowling a (relative) run for her money.

Over a thousand eager readers backed the – for a publisher quite remarkable – Kickstarter campaign, so that Lo Scarabeo could print their ‘labor of love ten years in the making’. And then came the waiting. Most of the Kickstarter pledgers have gotten their copy now and the book is up for pre-order, ready to be released for retail somewhere in January or February