Tarot of Shadows
Popular Russian tarot by Vera Sklyarova with multiple successful editions.
by Vera Sklyarova · Published in Russia Deck Type: Tarot Deck Cards: 78 Major Arcana: 22 Minor Arcana: 56 Card Language : Russian Rating: stars out of five Where to · 2014
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The record
Tarot of Shadows is the most popular product from the Russian Tarot reader, writer, teacher and magician Vera Sklyarova (author of many other decks). The cards endured several editions and they will surely be published again as each new edition is selling like hotcakes. The cards themselves have white background and the red back with the goats head inside the pentagram. Images are not very colorful, in fact they look like pencil drawings and are located in the center of the card. The important thing for this deck which makes it special is lack of suits. There are no wands, cups, swords or pentacles. There is just a keyword and the image. The numbers above the image range from 1 to 78, Major Arcana given in Latin numerals and the Minors in Arabic numbers. Major Arcana also list Hebrew letters and planetary attributions, though most Tarot scholars in Russia work with the image and keyword only and treat this deck rather as an oracle than the Tarot deck. The authors main idea was that the complete deck is the embodiment and development of Major Arcana XV the Devil. Therefore, the Keywords and pictures are connected to black arts names of gods, dark angels, persons from the histo
The cards
