Secret
Mysterious dark and unusual tarot offering fresh departure from traditional.
by Marco Nizzoli · 1997
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The record
I've seen many lovely reviews of this deck, which I've had since 1997. It was a mysterious, but beautiful deck to me then. I was used to Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) style pictures with a story theme or Marseilles workalikes with some sort of artistic theme. This was one of my first decks with dark and unusual illustrations. Now in 2004, I use this deck frequently to fall back on. I can grow tired of certain art themes and want to refresh my ideas. I will usually first try my soft and family-friendly Tarots of the Renaissance by Giorgio Trevisan...if that doesn't suit me, I know that I can go back to my moodier, deep-colored Secrets. The illustrations are rich and I can even pull out the instructions again to enjoy something different. I have the older English-language edition where the number of the card and the card titles appear in four languages above the picture. The Italian language title appears on the bottom in blue writing. This same edition can be bought through alidastore.com if you can settle for the instructions being in Italian and the picture on the box being the High Priestess. The English language edition has the Nine of Pentacles on the box cover and similar English la
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