This beautiful deck summarizes the ethical, philosophical, and spiritual concepts in the Major Arcana, as expressed by the divine poet in his Convivio, ideas that date back to Socrates and Plato but which are essentially eternal. The Minor Arcana describe the poet’s life and narrate the stops along the supernatural journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise including contemplation of Eternal Light. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
Boccaccio’s famous novels inspired Guadenzi to create a titillating goliardic “game” based on classic Tarot depictions. Here the Arcana have almost become an erotic manual: descriptions of multiple approaches to imaginative and “burning” sexuality, without false modesty . Recommended for adults only. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
The figure of the Dragon, an image of primitive force and power, is present in the imagination of all civilizations, in different forms and representations. These myths are interpreted in this deck with an iconography that recalls Africa, Asia, America, Europe and Oceania. Includes 78 cards and instruction booklet.
by Manfredi Toraldo. Artwork by Severino Baraldi
The dragon, an image of primitive force and power, is present in the imagination of all civilizations. Inspired by myths from every corner of the globe, this imaginative deck features the mystical beast and its many forms amid diverse iconography from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. Includes 78 cards and instruction booklet.
The most common dreams, transposed into images, invite you on a journey to understand the transition between sleep and wakefulness. These cards are for exploring yourself, for exploring your dreams and for reading the signs of your unconscious and those of others. Includes 78 cards and instruction booklet.
Painted in tempera on papyrus, these cards were partially inspired by the Tarot created by the famous occultist Jean-Baptiste Pitois in 1870. According to Pitois, the Tarot came from the legendary Book of Thoth, a knowledgeable book which held all of the mysteries of Egyptian magic. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
The master of erotic drawing transports us into an exciting dimension of ourselves and our bodies. Disturbing, explicit, and poignant scenes tell about the many joys of sex and love, secret dreams, and the most unmentionable desires. The cards also contain planetary and zodiac symbols as well as those of the four elements, useful for discovering astrological answers. Recommended for adults only. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
The Tarot created by Jean François Alliette, known in esoteric circles as Etteilla, was the origin of the cartomantic tradition at the end of the eighteenth century. Derived from the Egyptian myth of the Book of Thoth, these cards were redesigned and renumbered according to the principles of hermetic philosophy. Each tarot has divinatory meanings dictated by Etteilla, “the divine cartomant”. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
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The heart of the mysterious Etruscan civilization developed in the valleys between Tuscany and Lazio. Archeological discoveries in the immense and silent necropoli have brought to light the mystical beliefs of this lost people and their great love for life. These artistic and cultural testimonies have given life to the 78 arcana. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
Distant relatives of the gnomes, the fairies are very playful beings who carry out naughty jokes at times. The fairies however also like to help humans in very practical ways… like through these cards. The Fairy Tarot is actually enchanted: it allows reality to be confronted using a positive attitude, it helps play down all kinds of trouble and easily overcomes problems objectively. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
The well known apparition of the Virgin Mary at the beginning of the 1900's in a remote Portuguese village before three young girls, has inspired the title of this rare and very beautiful deck, painted in that same period and almost forgotten afterwards. Includes 32 cards.
The definitive guide to the French cartomancy tradition. The images of Madame Lenormand lead you into a universe of symbols and depictions capable of evoking the everyday and connecting it to the magic that surrounds us. The cards permit the future to be revealed. Includes 36 cards and 32 page book.
The universal symbol of relationships, of the couple formed by a man and a woman, the eternal yin and yang, is substituted here by archetypes and situations from the experience and identity of gay/homosexual people. A means of understanding and introspection for those who are not afraid of diversity. Includes 78 cards and instruction booklet.
The colours, the lights and the shapes of gems have always fascinated man, encouraging them to give them mystic significance and to use them for talismanic or divinatory means. This symbolic system helps us to understand how we ourselves can become jewels, in a metaphoric sense, if we learn to internalize the mystic powers of the stones. (32 cards - 62x99 mm. with instructions)
The most diverse feelings and ambitions may be communicated through symbols; the ancient iconologists knew this and created wonderful works of art to express the human, civil, and religious values of their time. While creating these cards, the artist recovered the codes of medieval symbolism, bringing them to the Tarot using Giotto's pictorial style. These new figures, however, are full of meanings which may be applied to modern life as well. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
In the Vienna of the early 20th century that was rich with new movements — intellectual, aesthetic and psychological — that contributed to the formation of modern man, the art of Gustav Klimt held a primary position. These Tarots, inspired by the Master, are enriched with impressions stamped in hot-gold and recount love and death, sensuality and regeneration. Includes 78 cards and instruction booklet.
The antique deck of Charles VI, commonly known as the Estensi (Este Duchy) Tarot, are proposed here in their entirety, thanks to a careful and in-depth historical and artistic research. A very valuable work, with water-coloured cards, embossed, and enriched with a golden lamina. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
The histories of the Christian saints were recorded over the centuries through beautiful and powerful icons which pass on the example of religious virtue and the Divine Spirit’s consequent action in the world. The art of Russian miniaturists has been lavished on these Arcana called the Tsars, defenders of Eastern-Christian religion. Printed with a Gold foil. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
A Gothic deck, dark, romantic. Fear and mystery, but also romanticism, sensuality. The Vampires in these cards are not monsters but dark and damned protagonists that live in our times, in technological and desolate urban landscapes. They move between their human and their supernatural nature, ungodly and alien. (78 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
The equilibrium of destiny always assume changing forms that to a distracted eye, involved in daily life, can seem to be without sense or meaning. To search for harmony, the right sense of proportion and balance in events, means entering into syntony with our past, present and future. Includes 78 cards and instruction booklet.
Hindu tradition has always recognised the importance of distinguishing between different levels of consciousness. The search for knowledge is the departure point for understanding daily reality and for experimenting with a consciousness always above that of objectives, actions and the practical results of these. Includes 32 cards.
Each card in this deck has hexagram with the same number, order and numeration as the Book of the I Ching. At the same time each card has a precise divinatory significance that summarizes the philosophy of the traditional I Ching, expressed however through the typical language of European cartomancy. (64 cards - 66x120 mm. with instructions)
Inspired by the knowledge of the most ancient and traditional Chinese oracles, these cards reproduce the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching. These depictions offer a key to understanding, primarily based on love: a simple and enchanting system for divining feelings, preferably together with one's own partner. (64 cards - 62x118 mm.)
This very particular oracle comes from the mystical orient and from Buddhism. It comprises 32 cards that are subdivided into the three levels of existence: mental, emotional and physical. This oracle therefore can be a guide towards the profundity of meditation and wisdom, and can help us to achieve psychophysical wellness, a better love life, and a satisfying job. (32 cards - 62x99 mm. with instructions)
The Kama is the pleasure attained through the five senses, aided by the spirit in union with the soul. Kamasutra signifies aphorisms of love. According to legend, the Kamasutra was created by the Indian god Shiva who, overwhelmed by the joys of sexual experience, dictated to a servant a treatise on erotic art, in order to make known and render eternal the amorous practices that he himself had experimented. 78 cards and Instructions.
In this divinatory deck the karmic Angels of the Christian and Jewish religions are presented, subdivided into four groups (Love, Virtue, Light, Planets) and characterized by different colors. The deck is completed by the four Archangels, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel, who correspond to the four cardinal points. (32 cards - 62x99 mm. with instructions)
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