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African American Tarot Deck

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by Jamal R. and Ernest Fitzpatrick
Artwork by Thomas Davis

78 cards and instruction booklet

The culture of two continents blends together in this one-of-a-kind tarot deck – creating a fresh perspective on what it means to be African-American.

Afro Brazilian Tarot

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by Alice Santana, Artwork by Giuseppe Palumbo

78 cards and Instructions

Orishas: divinities and myths from an ancient magic, transformed through time and continents and still alive today. These Tarots open a canal towards the beneficial and natural forces that can be drawn from for cures, meditations or rituals. The divinities of the Brazilian Santeria unite with the Tarot archetypes with surprising ease.

Ancient Enlightened Tarot

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Venetian master, nineteenth-century reproduction of the original

Winged knights, giants, tritons, angels, and vestal virgins of fire are mixed with warriors and magicians from biblical and Roman history. This 500-year-old deck has inspired the most celebrated Tarot decks and had been tied to the secrets of the alchemists and medieval masters of natural philosophy. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Ancient Italian Tarot

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Cartiera Italiana - Serravalle Sesia, 1880

Italy has stood out over the centuries for beautiful Tarot decks directly derived from the first models of the fifteenth-century. Artistic talent and Italian imagination are concentrated in this deck, whose sophistication and symbolic synthesis still amaze, making it an excellent tool for divining. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Ancient Minchiate Etruria Tarot

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Etruria - Florence 1725

The Tarot has been known as the Minchiate in Tuscany ever since the Renaissance. These special decks united the traditional allegories with the Zodiac signs and some of the virtues missing in the classic Tarot. This enchanting deck combines sacred iconography with the oldest pagan myths, symbols of the forces which must be controlled and guided. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Ancient Tarot of Bologna

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Giacomo Zoni - Bologna, 1780

Since the fifteenth century in Bologna, the Tarot's Trionfi (today the Major Arcana) were considered a manual for cosmology and as a summary of moral precepts and theological considerations. The Tarot then became a game of chance and skill used by the Estensi courts and was later transformed into a tool for divining. Not withstanding these changes in use however, the ancient depictions of the Tarot of Bologna have been maintained almost intact. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Ancient Tarot of Liguria-Piedmont

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G. B. Guala - Ghemme, 1860

When the Italian and French Tarot traditions met, certain decks were created with very unique and remarkable images. This Tarot, typical along the border areas between Piedmont and Liguria, is still used today for playing cards and for reading the future with rules identical to the Tarot of Marseilles. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Ancient Tarot of Lombardy

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F. Gumppenberg - Milano, 1810

The ancient tradition of the Tarot of Lombardy was renewed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by a great German born printer, Ferdinando Gumppenberg. This neoclassical deck was the first of a long series of authentic works of art used as a game and for cartomancy. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Ancient Tarot of Marseilles

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N. Conver - Marseilles, 1760

This eighteenth-century Tarot wholly preserves the symbolism of the first esoteric decks which then became famous as the Tarot of Marseilles and are today best-sellers in Europe. The deck was carefully printed with special attention paid to reproducing the original appearance in every detail. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Angel Oracle Cards

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Artwork by Rossano Stefanin

The angels, pure creatures without sin, are messengers of divine will and, if we want, guides for our actions. Do you want to receive help and advice from heavenly forces? Each of these cards represents a guardian angel who, because of its own nature, can indicate the correct path at any time. (32 cards - 60x108 mm.)

Angels Voices Cards

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Laura Tuan - Artwork by Antonella Castelli

For the first time a unique deck of cards of the Angels is presented in the Gnostic tradition. Each card indicates, along with the number, the Hebrew name for the Angel, the planetary formation to which it belongs, the guiding planet, the key word that summarises the task, the area of interest (emotions, health, work, fortune . . .) and the divinatory significance. (80 cards – 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Astrological Oracle Cards

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Artwork by Antonella Castelli

22 cards and Instructions

The images of the zodiac are realized in Art Nouveau style. Each card is like a door that opens, bearing the symbols and the attributes of a sign or a planet. They permit the study and comprehension of the astrological combinations connected to a birth, a name, the date of a meeting or an event.

Avalon Tarot

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Lorenzo Tesio, Artwork by Joseph Viglioglia.

Mythical Avalon, home of the chivalrous legends of King Arthur and his knights, comes back to life in these beautiful cards with a fantastic medieval setting: a world of light and darkness which reflects contemporary civilization. Good and bad are continuously compared in the Avalon Tarot. The deck, was directly inspired by the thirteenth-century French tradition. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Bosch Tarot

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A.A. Atanassov

Hieronymus Bosch's unusual vision of the strange universe of the 16th century provides the filter through which Atanassov worked to create the Bosch Tarot. Awe and anxiety, dread and desire — the images in this deck provide a safe place to explore the unimaginable and hence, to face our own deepest fears. The warm colours invite the reader to enter this bizarre dream world, consider the lessons to be learned, and divine the unwritten future. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Bruegel Tarot

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Artwork by Guido Zibordi Marchesi.

These tarots, with their frescoes from the medieval era, are a window to the world of European folklore, the roots of the entire western world. Artistically and iconographically inspired by Bruegel - father and son - they express the traditional meaning of each card through a pictorial representation of proverbs and anecdotes. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Cards of Nostradamus

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Isa Donelli, Ancient engravings colored by Donatella M. Baraldi

The words inscribed in the 78 cards are taken from a famous work arising during the Renaissance epoch: Iconology (Iconologia) by Cesare Ripa, which received great fame and notoriety throughout Europe. The scholar Isa Donelli has elaborated the symbols using a contemporary key to enable immediate comprehension and a complete interpretation. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Celtic Oracle Cards

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Giordano Berti, Artwork by Severino Baraldi

22 cards and Instructions

The astrological calendar of the ancient Celts contained the wisdom of their magic and the ability to connect them to nature without dominating it. The Celtic Oracle explores the most ancient Celtic magic and the roots of these people, in particular the Celts of Ireland and of the islands. The ancient symbols of the sagas and the legends are represented in the Oracle.

Celtic Tarot

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Artwork by G. Gaudenzi and S. Tenuta.

Fomori, Tuatha dé Danann, Ulaid, Fianna . . . these are the names of the main descendents of heroes talked about in the legends of the Celts. These cards tell about the feats of that ancient people whose close relationship with the spiritual dimension of nature was only recently re-evaluated. The Celtic Tarot leads us on a wonderful trip through symbols and legends which are always contemporary. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Children Tarot

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Artwork by Lele Luzzati.

When the Tarot was still in its infancy, it looked at the world with innocent, imaginative, and wonder-filled eyes. Many things about ourselves and others can be learned through the creation of fairy tales and stories without believing in magic or the occult. And the “adults” sit down to listen . . . (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

China Tarot Deck

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Artwork by Der Jen

78 cards and instruction booklet

The magic, the spell and the poetry of China. These beautiful and delicate images tell of ancient China and speak of love, of melancholy, of illusions and joy: the shades of meaning that signal human emotions. They enable us to identify with the character and the scene depicted. Carried on the winds from the east, these Tarots are an anthem to the beauty of the soul.

Classic Tarot

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Engravings by C. Della Rocca Printed by F. Gumppenberg Milan, 1835.

The work of Carlo Della Rocca, one of the most important engravers of the nineteenth century, was reproduced preserving the charm and naturalness of that extremely refined craft. This deck is one of the best examples of Tarot art, its origins deeply rooted in Italian culture and history. Each Arcanum contains its own divinatory meanings. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Cleopatra Tarot Deck

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by Etta Stoico
Artwork by Silvana Alasia

78 cards and instruction booklet

This deck is dedicated to the last Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, famous for her exceptional learning as well as her harmonious voice. The Tarots reproduce the Egyptian divinities and the astral spirits of the Zodiac of Denderah. The Egyptians attributed the power to alter human destiny to these figures, uniting the magic of the stars with the symbolism of the Tarot.

Comparative Tarot

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Valerie Sim and Riccardo Minetti, Artwork by R. De Angelis, S.Alasia, C. Burdel, S. Toppi.

Each card in this deck comprises four images, showing four different ways to see a single card in order to reach the meaning through comparison, similarity and difference. The selected decks come from different schools with diverse iconographic approaches: the Universal tarots, the Sphinx tarot, the Marseilles tarot and the tarot of the Origins. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)

Corto Maltese Tarot Deck

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by Hugo Pratt

78 cards and instruction booklet

Corto Maltese is Hugo Pratt’s most popular comic book creation – a sea captain whose colorful adventures take him from 1918 Siberia to Fascist Italy to the lost continent of Mu. It’s a fantastic voyage to exotic places and personalities – all brilliantly captured in Pratt’s signature style.

Crystal Tarot

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Artwork by Elisabetta Trevisan

This Tarot, with its mystical forms, contains both poetic and existential messages. Infinite emotions are revealed in the delicate lines of tempera and pastels, as if imprisoned in the fragile outline of a stained-glass window. Touching these “crystalline figures” means entering a world of pure beauty and love. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)