Tarot of the Sweet Twilight
Hauntingly beautiful twilit imagery evoking soft emotion and introspective contemplation.
by Cristina Benintende · 2009
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The record
The Tarot of the Sweet Twilight is an astonishingly beautiful new deck from Lo Scarabeo featuring the artwork of Christina Benintende. Introduced on the box by a quote from a poem by W B Yeats this is truly a deck that lives up to its name and depicts a twilit world of soft, sad emotion that reaches out and touches the heart. A world populated by people and creatures that are both fantastic and compellingly real. Structurally the deck follows the usual pattern, there are 78 cards divided into trumps and suits, Justice is numbered VIII and Strength is XI, the fully illustrated suits are named and numbered in the normal manner and the courts include the standard Knave, Knight, Queen and King. Each card features the multi lingual titles favoured by Lo Scarabeo on an indigo border the colour of twilight. These borders are carried over on to the fully reversible backs where they surround an image that picks up colours and themes from the face of the cards. The illustrations for the majors will, for the most part, be familiar enough to most tarot readers. They comply with enough of the standard symbolism, such as the Scales of Justice and the Angel of Judgement, to be recognisable withou
The cards
