The Manga Tarot perfectly captures the essence of the
traditional Tarot while making use of the Japanse art form of
manga, making it ideal for all Tarot readers and ideal for so many
people entranced by the manga style. The Manga Tarot challenges you
with exciting and new color schemes and a fantastic gender
inversion: cards usually featuring men have women, and vice versa.
This plays with the Eastern idea of Yin/Yang and of the idea that
all people--and archetypes--have masculine and feminine qualities.
It will help you bust through any pre-conceived beliefs and help
you develop astounding new interpretations that transcend anything
you've done before! The Chinese letters printed on the cards,
representing seasons associated with suits, returns the aura of
mystery and otherworldliness that the Tarot once had, and helps put
the real magic back into all of your readings. The accompanying
booklet explains the inner meanings of each tarot card and provides
a relationship-focused reading that you can use right away.
Publisher Review: For those of you familiar with Lo Scarabeo
Tarot decks, you'll know that they are more apt to push the
boundaries of Tarot, to play with structure, symbolism, and theme,
and to reach toward the next evolutionary level of Tarot in
general. This means they don't produce many decks that would be
recognized as Rider-Waite derivatives. But when they do, such as
with the Manga Tarot, they change just enough and add just enough
to make the journey through the Major and Minor Arcana a thrilling
ride filled with intriguing insights, if only we take the time to
look, because another trademark of Lo Scarabeo decks is the lack of
a full-sized book that dictates what the cards mean. Instead, we
are given some landmarks and guides to help us on our journey. But
then we are sent on our way to see what we can find, because
ultimately, the journey is our own. In the Manga Tarot there are
four things that overtly affect the interpretation of the cards.
First, in most of the cards, figures that are usually depicted as
male in the Rider Waite tradition are depicted as female in the
Manga Tarot, and vice versa. This creates a change in the some of
the Major Arcana titles (as mentioned above) and the numbering of
the Emperor and Empress (III and IV, respectively). This technique
really plays with the Eastern idea of Yin/Yang and of the idea that
all people (and archetypes?) have both masculine and feminine
qualities. When we look at these cards, we are encouraged to
explore the feminine qualities of the Priestess (The Hierophant in
the Rider Waite system) and the masculine qualities of Temperance.
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