Book of Shadows
Exquisitely detailed Wiccan tarot with sensual imagery and vibrant color.
by Barbara Moore, Gregorz Krisinsky · Lo Scarabeo · 2012
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Lo Scarabeo have finally issued an apology for their awful Elemental Tarot (reviewed by myself when it was published two years ago) in the form of this, the Book of Shadows Tarot. And what an apology! A Wiccan deck with delightful, sensual imagery, exquisitely detailed and rendered in vibrant colours. This could surely become any self-respecting witchs favourite familiar. What does this deck have to do with the Elemental Tarot? Simply this - both decks use the four elementals to illustrate the meanings of the minor arcana. According to the Austrian occultist Paracelsus (born Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim in 1493), there are four elementals - gnomes representing the element of earth (pentacles), sylphs representing Air (swords), undines representing Water (cups) and salamanders representing Fire (wands). On the subject of the minor arcana I have often despaired when presented with decks where the images on the minor cards exhibit meanings which deviate greatly from the traditionally accepted interpretations. It is vexing at best! (I define traditional as originating from the Rider-Waite / Crowley / Golden Dawn tarots). Isnt it more fun to break the rul
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