More experienced readers will find little of novelty in the book or deeper insight into the images-- a separate cards-only edition could be a good concept. I likewise would have liked to have seen this deck in a bigger size with bigger images for simpler watching of the wealth of beautiful information and colour, however the Gilded Tarot is a still a deck to be appreciated.
Buy and Enjoy This Set at: Gilded Tarot Review by Brian Carles In The Gilded Tarot Ciro Marchetti admires the Rider-Waite deck, while adding his own personal touch. You can see Marchettis art showed in this tarot deck in that it includes the signs of the zodiac, mechanical devices, and parts of nature; as are displayed in his other works.
Structurally The Gilded Tarot is a regular tarot deck with the 22 cards of the major arcana having the typical names and numbering. The minor arcana include the normal fits of wands, cups, swords, and pentacles. Nevertheless, Key Reference has from regular tarot decks is that the background of the small arcana isn't reflective of the element represented by the fit but rather scenes of nature with the occasional world or moon and stars.
This can be seen in the Fool card, which strays from the standard format totally because the fool has actually opened his bag of techniques and is employing what he referred to as he is handling the zodiac signs. Other distinctions are minor, such as the magician holding the signs of the minor arcana with magic rather than merely looking over them.
Strength does the same in that the woman has the lion as a pet rather than wrestling with it. The Devil is along the exact same lines because it gets rid of the chained males and female, as well as altering the devil into a man in a mask. Here he may be making a remark regarding that the devil being a production of male? Marchetti takes a new method to the Wheel Of Fortune in that the animals that are generally around the wheel are missing out on and the wheel has actually ended up being a wheel of the zodiac.