Lo Scarabeo
Eclectic synthesis merging Marseille, Rider-Waite, and Thoth tarot traditions.
by Mark McElroy, Anna Lazzarini · 2007
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The record
The Lo Scarabeo Tarot emerged on the scene in 2007 with two ambitious thrusts behind its design. First it sought to merge the three major Tarot schools together: the Traditional Rider-Waite-Smith, the Historical Tarot de Marseille, and the Systems-Based Thoth Tarot into a single deck with recognizable elements from each. Secondly, these cards were meant to tastefully commemorate the twentieth year of the Lo Scarabeo brand as its flagship deck and represent the company worldwide in the years to come. Needless to say, this was a bold undertaking for the team at Lo Scarabeo to see whether they could combine all three of these traditions in a single pack of cards. The deck itself comes in two forms of packaging, standard (the deck itself) or deluxe (the deck plus a black velvet Tarot bag with the Lo Scarabeo scarab beetle logo emblazoned on it in gold with gold satin liner inside), I personally opted for the later. The cards themselves are considered standard size (4.75 x 2.625/120mm x 65mm), making them useable by readers and seekers with small hands. The cardstock is from good material and has a nice gloss to it, so it certainly is a high quality product (versus a budget deck) and
The cards
