If you missed the greatly lauded Tarot exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, you have another chance to become acquainted with a tarot deck from Renaissance Italy. Lo Scarabeo has just published a museum quality edition of the Visconti Brambilla Tarot, restored by Mattia D’Auge with stunning artwork and gorgeous gold…
Marco Proietto studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and later studied the intaglio engraving technique seen in his previously successful Bianco Nero Tarot. Deciding he wished to produce a deck in full colour, the Tarot Vitae was the result. From the box: “Tarot Vitae presents a rich exploration of the characters,…
Tarot, Magic, & Reason, aka TOMAR, is a stunning book and deck combo created by the lovely ‘Debs’ (Deborah Allen). The subtitle reads: The TOMAR In-Depth Beginner’s Guide to Tarot Theory and Practice…but, to be clear, the ‘beginners’ part of the subtitle is referencing learning tarot theory, “exploring its traditional ideas in their modern context…[to]…
I’m the kind of person who uses holiday mugs year-round. (Why should merriment be limited to one season a year?) So, it’s no stretch of the imagination to understand why I gravitated toward the Yuletide Tarot the moment this new edition was available. Author Kristoffer Hughes and artist Erin O’Leary Brown have created a whimsical…
Rachel Pollack (1945-2023) needs no introduction; she was one of the greatest tarot mentors of our time, deepening all of our practices in the book that many of us consider our “bible”: Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom. Originally published in 1986, Tarot: The Open Labyrinth,has long been out of print. In this 40th Anniversary Edition, we…
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect with an oracle deck solely devoted to sage wisdom from cats. Not that cats don’t have sage wisdom (they do; some probably more than I do), but I wondered how that could translate into a deck of inspirational cards that didn’t just rely on an obvious cute factor….