Product Description

Step into a lost world from long ago, a world enshrouded in a veil of darkness after a cataclysmic collision that stilled the earth. Millennia pass and only humankind has survived - through the divine gift of prophetic dreams. Exquisitely rich and magical, this new tarot deck by digital artist Ciro Marchetti takes you into the heart of fantasy and guides you toward hope, wisdom, and inspiration. An insightful companion guidebook, "Gateway to the Divine Tarot", presents the author's interpretations of each card's meaning and significance, along with additional perspectives from highly respected experts in the tarot community, including Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone, James Ricklef, and Leisa ReFalo.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105403 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 78
• Binding: Cards
• 312 pages

About the Author
Ciro Marchetti (Florida) is an award-winning artist from the United Kingdom. Marchetti manages his own design agency, gives workshops and lectures on digital imagery and illustration at the Fort Lauderdale Art Institute, and continues to create his own visionary art. Visit him online at www.ciromarchetti.com.

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Artwork, terrible card stock
I love the artwork of these cards, even more exciting and vibrant as the Gilded Tarot by the same artist. But the quality of the card stock is terrible. Very disappointed with the quality.

Breathtaking artwork
The images on the cards are breathtaking and vibrant, they almost leap of the deck. Whilst I was not dissapointed with images which were better in real life than I had expected I like the previous reviewer was also dissapointed by the quality of the card. Very thin and flimsy and can invisage them getting bent and damnaged on the corners easily. Pity really because it comes in attractive box, with book and even a bag to put your cards in which I was pleasantly suprised about. After all the attention to detail I just feel that the card stock brought the deck down one star for me. Otherwise I would have given it a full 5 stars. Lovely product all the same.

Almighty Insight and Artwork Ruined By Poor Card Quality.
This amazing rectified deck is breathtaking, the imagery will light up your mind and connect to your inner being. It's as if the cards talk to you through another dimension. I am not usually a fan of digital art but the imagery is so fluid it's like seeing the format of your dreams on paper. I say paper, because the deck has been really, really let down by the paper quality. The standard sized cards are thin, practically matt and very flimsy, it's such a let down and really doesn't do the artist, or the imagery, justice. I don't think that these cards would stand passing of time but the artwork is timeless.

This deck is based on the Rider-Waite deck and portrays all the elements of the Rider-Waite but in a much more poignant and identifiable way. It's easy to understand making it suitable for a beginner and yet full enough to offer the professional reader more room for insight. It also offers the professional reader the opportunity to display a mysterious, poignant and friendly deck when reading for their clients.

The accompanying book contains detailed card descriptions by tarot experts: Ciro Marchetti (the designer), Ruth Ann and Wald Amberstone, James Ricklef and Lisa ReFalo, who all offer their individual insights and meanings for each card.

I have since also bought the special edition cards which are much bigger (14cm x 8.3cm) and thicker and would also make an excellent choice for the professional reader.