Romantic Tarot Cards – January 8, 2015

I think that they are nice. Nothing spectacular. I do not use them often right now. I do like them and I recommend them. I just haven’t really been drawn to them but that doesn’t mean you won’t be. I’m honestly told by spirit what cards to use in a reading. These haven’t been called upon often yet. Maybe it will change. They are good quality. Nothing wrong with them at all. Just a preference. Everyone has different preferences. My honest opinion, and like I said these may turn out to be a favorite of yours.

Beautiful deck… not for beginners. The artwork is intricate, the booklet is high quality and makes sense. Paper feels nice. Great for any pro reader or tarot collector!

This beautiful deck is exciting and very relevant to the relationship readings I specialize in. I love Lo Scarabeo decks for their fresh, new takes on RWS imagery. I've been reading for a long time and every Lo Scarabeo deck I buy gives me wonderful readings., I'm always excited to see the visual cues my intuition will spark from on each new deck I buy. The card stock is very sturdy and will last a good many years. I'm a riffle shuffler which is hard on decks but I've had some of my Lo Scarabeo decks for many years and they've held up extremely well. This one seems quite sturdy.While this deck is challenging for a person who is relatively new to Tarot, I recommend it wholeheartedly. If you like the deck but don't think you can read with it, just put it away for awhile/. This way, you don't run the risk of having the deck go out of print while you're waiting because then exorbitant prices make any deck out of the reach for most people.

I like the quality of this deck, it's easy to shuffle. I think it's highly aesthetically appealing. I love the art and the theme here. I don't normally buy gimmick decks but I wanted more romance themed decks in my collection and this seemed to be the less cliche out of most of the decks out there.I like that the developers of this deck decided to reinterpret the meaning of some of the cards, so I really like that this isn't just a run-of-the-mill Rider-Waite rendition. Tarot holds so much depth that Rider-Waite fails to tap into. It's nice to see some difference and creativity here. Some of them I like, others I dislike.Entering into the cons of this deck: some interpretations irk me. The worst offender is Temperance (Atu XIV). This would have been absolutely the PERFECT opportunity to create a marriage/wedding card between the Emperor and Empress, as that should be the focus for this deck. Instead, they put a wedding mundanely in the 4 of Wands. Which is fine and dandy, however, marriage/union of souls should be the goal of romance. How can you have a passionate kiss in the Lovers (Atu VI)(who should also be the Emperor and Empress) but then a sloppy pouring of someone's drink at a bar whilst being judged by a man about to receive said drink, in Atu XIV? Atu XIV is the outcome of Atu VI, since they are the Gemini-Sagittarius axis. For this reason alone, it gives me the impression that whoever put this deck together, doesn't have a solid grasp on tarot symbolism. I do see a Sagittarius theme to this card, but in my opinion, it's not strong enough and it doesn't feel that romantic. For a major arcana card, I'm surprised at how mundane it looks.Continuing off of that, 6 of Cups would have been perfect for a family oriented card, sex, anything finally obtained and happy (e.g. "guy gets the girl" trope). It just doesn't make sense to show three men who will never get the unobtainable women in the background. I don't get the sense that each man is married to each woman - no rings on anyone's fingers, no color correspondence. It gives me more of a sense of a "peeping Tom" or "dirty old man", than men enjoying being drunk and viewing beautiful women.6 of Cups is about intense happiness and pleasure, everything aligns and is well. This illustration feels more like the 4 of Cups: rotting within pleasure. I certainly do see pleasure in this card, but given that it corresponds with Sun in Scorpio, I only see missed opportunities. I feel like the 4 of Chalices and 6 of Chalices could have switched pictures, if anything.I feel like the artist went too hard on the mystery of the chalices (not saying that about all the cards, just some) and then forgot where romance comes from most: water. I was expecting more lust from the Wands, not the Chalices, but it's ok to subvert some expectations.Another con to this deck is that the booklet that came with it is too poetic for my tastes - to the point where at times, I don't think we're looking at the same card. I could spin this into a pro, where it therefore forces you to interpret the cards as YOU want to (in doing so, I do feel closer to the deck)... But sometimes I like keywords to help me with interpretation and reading something flowery and vague doesn't really aid me.Overall, this deck is ok. It's not the best but certainly not the worst. I do have some favorites more than I have least favorites. It's very sweet in many of the cards. I use it frequently despite the cons. It helps to use other decks to better understand a certain ambiguous card, to which the booklet won't help you understand (such as the 7 of Swords). I'm still trying to understand this deck and I got it 2 months ago. So if any veterans to this deck are reading this review and thinking I'm silly and unintelligent for my list of cons, I hope I'm wrong and am missing something.

I like the cards a lot, fun and colorful, 3 stars for the smashed box right on the left hand corner up front, really annoying when they can’t ship it properly... box is as important as cards... I’m bringing it to 5 star because I reordered the cards and it came in good condition, thank you amazon for a fast exchange...the cards quality is on a flimsy side but nice and smooth, art is fun and playful and makes me laugh sometimes... it’s delicate, watercolor and pencil and I can appreciate that... 💞🌸

I got these as a wedding gift for my witchy friend. She’s going to love them. They’re gorgeous from what I have seen.

Great playing card stock quality. A lot of the cards cards are not your traditional Rider Waite format and the little booklet has meanings of its own for each card. That been said, I still love it. You can connect to it like an oracle if you read it with your intuition. The colors are like a wash coral. I like the red roses and the yellow on the back. I am happy to use it for love readings and to have it on my collection. Very happy with my purchase.

The other reviews seem to not like this deck as much because the card meanings do not stick to what we typically go by for tarot but I actually love the fact that it's different! It definitely makes readings more interesting for me. Imagery is soft, detailed, beautiful.Also fun thing that I noticed about the deck is that each suit represents a different European city! (Cups - Venice; Pentacles - Rome; Wands - Paris; Swords - Vienna) <3 <3 <3 .