About this item
- The Golden Universal Tarot is a re-printing of the Universal Tarot by Roberto de Angelis, a redrawn and more dynamic version of the Rider-Waite. This edition has selected symbols and imagery decorated with gold foil on its 78 cards.
Specifications
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Name
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Golden Universal Tarot
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Creators
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Roberto de Angelis
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Publisher
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Lo Scarabeo 2012
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Deck Type
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Tarot Deck
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Cards
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78
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Major Arcana
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22
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Minor Arcana
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56
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Deck Tradition
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Rider-Waite-Smith
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Minor Arcana Style
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RWS-Based Scenes
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Card Language
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None
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Card Back
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Reversible
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Back Design
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Stylised floral curlicue design in light brown on a black background
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Companion Material
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64-page companion booklet in English, Italian, Spanish, French and German.
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Reviews
The Golden Universal Tarot has taken those same images of Roberto's, and improved upon them. Gone are the white borders with distracting multilingual titles, and in their place are black borders with decorative gold curlicues and simple numbering.
What were naturally coloured skies in the backgrounds are now textured in metallic gold, in radial patterns picked out in small dots. Other elements in each card are also highlighted in gold: the cups in the Two of Cups, the pentacles in the Seven of Pentacles, the moon at the feet of the High Priestess and the cross around her neck. The metallic highlights have been given a deliberately imperfect look in places, with intentional scratches and the odd missing piece, so the cards have an aged rather than brand spanking new look.
The 64-page companion booklet is printed in English, Italian, Spanish, French and German and a has a brief chronological history of tarot, an introduction to the concept of the Universal Tarot, a sample nine-card spread and keyword meanings for all 78 cards.
I rather like this new version of the Universal Tarot. It brings a new take on the familiar Rider-Waite and the gold adds visual appeal and shine. It's a very readable tarot deck -- new and improved.
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