Lo Scarabeo - publishing house was founded in 1987, in Turin, Italy. Over 30 years of business and the brand has become a world leader in the field of Tarot cards, playing cards, and divination cards. The company is offering extraordinary & innovative decks, created by some of the greatest artists of this century.
Let’s discover the old cartomancy, when people used to divine using playing cards. Sometimes they were very normal playing cards, but other times, they were outstanding decks, illustrated with scenes and artwork of everyday life, like the Folk Cards of Destiny. The original deck is from the renowned printer Dondorf...
A deck full of mysteries and sudden flashes of clarity that illuminate our intuition like a spotlight focusing on a dancer dancing in the darkness. As Luigi Pirandello said: 'Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, because they are true'. Sometimes...
Davide Corsi’s new deck. Inspired by the British and Irish folk tales, it is a deck of fairies, of brownies and pixies, but also a deck of rainbows and luck. Luck is for those who seek it, at the end of the rainbow, with clear spirit, pure intentions, and a...
“If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a trans- lation of the dream.” These words were spoken by René Magritte. Sur- realism is about reality, the way man perceives reality and translates it into his own inner world made of imaginations, feelings, experiences and...
Following the outstanding success of After Tarot and Before Tarot, this deck explores what it would look like to see in between two consecutive cards in the deck. The space in between is a sacred, liminal realm, symbolic of transition and rejuvenation. When you look in between the Emperor (IV) and the...
The best-selling Before Tarot and After Tarot explore what happens just before and after each arcana, to deepen our understanding of individual cards. With art by Franco Rivolli, the In Between Tarot focuses on relationships between cards, which some say is where the magic really happens in a reading. 78...
The new deck of Fabio Listrani, after the overwhelming positive Kick starter campaign, reached the wider public. Goetia is a deck about De mons, extracted from the esoteric lore of the Lesser Key of Salomon, but seen in a modern psychological way. As darkness is none other than a path...
Inspired to the life and teachings of Siddhartha Gautama - Buddha, not as an historical figure, but as one of the many potential Buddha - and other Bodhisattva (people who have reached enlightenment), the Tarot deck is a journey toward your higher self. The constant human anxiety of living and...
This bold and brilliant edition of the classic 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot will be sure to please tarot readers and collectors everywhere. The RWS tarot, originally designed by artist Pamela Colman Smith with guidance from occultist A.E. Waite, is the most popular deck in the world and has been used in...
Vampires. One year after the zombie inspired Tarot Z, Alejandro Colucci brings his art to display the nature of vampires. It’s not a romantic world, nor it is a fictional experience. The vampires bring us to a world of primal essence, where the boundary between human and monster is grayed...
From the German Tarot tradition, a 78 cards deck illustrated with mythology themed scenes. The deck was printed using the technique of metal engraving and then colored with mask painting: a masterpiece of the XIX century. Frankfurt, 1820 ca, 54 cards, 59x109 mm. Numbered edition, limited to 2999 copies. Instructions....
Duality: Good and Bad - Light and Dark - Negative and Positive - Active and Passive - Receptive and Assertive. Everything has its opposition. In Tarot, this happens within every card, as the interpretation brings the Reader to see every Arcana from different points of view and embracing a yin-yang...
