Whispers of twilight twist in the corners of your soul. Surreal images surprise your mind. Colors and curves delight your eyes. Bittersweet beauty stirs your heart. You change, grow wiser, and find that the world is complicated, but no less beautiful.
Publisher Review:
Honesty is imperative. You must know from the start: I love this deck. My heart was lost to it almost a year ago when I was in Italy working in the Lo Scarabeo offices. Riccardo Minetti, the editor there, pulled out Cristina’s original artwork and that was, as they say, that. Later, the little flame in my heart was fanned—again by Riccardo—into a bonfire when I was asked to write the dreaded Little White Booklet. If you think using those books is frustrating, try writing them! Luckily, Riccardo turned what could have been a wretched experience into a magical one. He knows that my “mental deck” is the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. He knows that it is my wont to force all decks into that mold. So he instructed me to just sit with this art, one picture at a time and forget what card it is supposed to be and what the Rider-Waite-Smith version looks like. Just sit with the art and write down what it says. And so I did. And in doing so, [read more]
Sweet Twilight Simply put: This deck is amazing.The cards are great quality with beautiful artwork. It’s magical, depressing, emotional, artistic, but without being over done. It is what it is, the sweet sweet twilight.I did a great deal of research before purchasing and I am beyond satisfied.
Lovely Redo for Tarot This isn’t a typical Rider-Waite clone deck. A fair number of the illustrations depart from the standard symbology, but not so much that the interpretaions are totally lost! You shouldn’t have too much trouble adapting to the deck for doing readings from.But that’s not really why I dig this deck. It’s the look. The colors are vivid, but not overly cheerful. I read a review where someone felt that it was the deck that Tim Burton never made, and I think that is an apt description. It’s got some gloomy outlook amidst the more upbeat cards, and the drawings are rather charming. It’s not as far out there as the Deviant Moon Deck either; it’s stylised without departing from certain Tarot norms.Additionally the card stock is a good wieght and the finish is not overly slick making them easy to handle. Lo Scarabo’s boxes have a different fold at the bottom that doesn’t roughen up the cards when you put them back in. The little white book is a bit on the sparse side, but…
A Surrealistic Journey into the Twilight! From samples over the internet, these cards “called” to me. I didn’t know exactly why, but then it hit me. “Wow! This is Tim Burton meets Tarot”, I thought. It’s undeniable that the imagery in the Tarot of the Sweet Twilight seems to be taken out of movies like “The Night Before Christmas” and “Corpse Bride”. However, this is not just a rehash of the Rider Tarot in the spirit of those movies, but an ingeniously designed deck by Christina Benintende.The cards on this deck are bordered black, with a reversible back to behold. The imagery losely follows the Rider tradition in a surrealistic fashion. With muted but contrasting colors, each card sucessfully captures the environment at twilight. At times, a sun and a moon will be seen at opposite ends of a card. The characters are languish being of pale skin that at all times captivate your imagination with their hidden emotions. However, this is by no mean a depressing deck.Each card on this deck is labeled…