Sacred Rose


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The Sacred Rose Tarot

Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman (U.S. Games Systems Inc, 1982.)

Review
It's okay, everyone's done it. You get a new deck home, open the box, peel off the cellophane, and then hear yourself say "what the hell is this?"

This is a seriously unsettling deck, and probably wouldn't be good idea for readings by or on behalf of the nervous. The most obvious problem is the way that all of the humans have no irises or pupils, so their eyes are uncanny white voids. Combined with the scratchy line work and the murky colour palette, this a deck that nightmares are made of. Due to the age of this deck, there's no digital work, which is just as well since the artist is very keen on painting little lens flares pretty much everywhere, so that the Swords look more like Elongated Diamonds.

While there are collectors that might want to buy this deck for the sake of completeness, others might find this far too disturbing, and leave it aside.