Shaman
Explores shamanic journeys through traditional 78-card tarot framework and symbolism.
by Massimiliano Filadoro · Lo Scarabeo · 2010
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The record
The Shaman Tarot from Lo Scarabeo is a new deck that explores aspects of shamanism and the shamanic journey through the context of the tarot. Outwardly the deck appears to be a normally structured tarot deck with reversible backs, 22 majors, each unnamed but numbered with Roman numerals, and four suits each with 10 numbered cards and four courts, all fully illustrated with colourful and appealing illustrations. However a closer inspection will show that the small icons that replaces the suit names are not the familiar pentacles, swords, wands and cups but the more mysterious drum, bow, skull and stone, and this is the first clue that the deck has been re-envisioned to better describe the shamanic experience. As there are no titles upon any of these cards and their identification relies instead upon the more egalitarian system of number and symbol it is not until the reader looks within the accompanying booklet that the extent of this re-visioning becomes clear. A short perusal of the booklet reveals that not only have the suits been renamed but so have each and every one of the majors and the courts. It is possible to see the ghost of the RWS beneath this new shamanistic surface, t
The cards
