Lo Scarabeo 2014 Releases

DaisyDragonfly

The Cat Marseilles - I'm having that!

The Nicoletta Ceccoli reminds me very much of Mark Ryden, whom I love. I'll be having this deck as well.
 

karen0205

Looks like they insist on having those busty Nymphs -and the like- year after year.. sigh.. :bugeyed:
The Mucha Moon is really beautiful though.
The porn style women has really turned me off to LS decks.
I don't even look at them anymore which is a shame, I'm sure
there are some that are nice. I hope they don't alter
the Mucha women to look like porn stars too. With only
seeing a couple cards, I'm not ready to invest in anything
so far. Aren't there any women over at LS who make
decisions about the art style of are they only men?
I can't imagine any woman would rather have that look
than a natural figure. JMO
 

Glass Owl

The porn style women has really turned me off to LS decks.
I don't even look at them anymore which is a shame, I'm sure
there are some that are nice. I hope they don't alter
the Mucha women to look like porn stars too. With only
seeing a couple cards, I'm not ready to invest in anything
so far. Aren't there any women over at LS who make
decisions about the art style of are they only men?
I can't imagine any woman would rather have that look
than a natural figure. JMO

I'm okay with it when it turns up in particular decks like the Ludy Lescot, where the deck's theme was over-the-top and dramatic, etc but when it starts showing up in so many cards (and in so many decks) it becomes excessive and annoying. For this very reason, I find myself heavily researching any LS deck before I even think of purchasing it.

When I saw the examples from the Nymphs I just shook my head in disappointment, although I'm glad that they aren't hiding what type of deck you will be getting if you buy it. Surely there are other ways of showing women without making them look like strippers? <sigh>

While I do like what I saw for the Mucha deck I fear what the rest of the cards in that deck look like so at this point it will be a pass.
 

Eowyn Annwyl

Nicoletta Ceccoli Tarot

I'll try using this deck with the Shapeshifters / Shadows & Light oracles.

That was my thought exactly! It was the only deck that really caught my eye.
 

karen0205

I'm okay with it when it turns up in particular decks like the Ludy Lescot, where the deck's theme was over-the-top and dramatic, etc but when it starts showing up in so many cards (and in so many decks) it becomes excessive and annoying. For this very reason, I find myself heavily researching any LS deck before I even think of purchasing it.

When I saw the examples from the Nymphs I just shook my head in disappointment, although I'm glad that they aren't hiding what type of deck you will be getting if you buy it. Surely there are other ways of showing women without making them look like strippers? <sigh>

While I do like what I saw for the Mucha deck I fear what the rest of the cards in that deck look like so at this point it will be a pass.

I don't buy any LS deck until I can see all the cards. I got tired of reselling them after
I would get them and be disappointed. It seems like they only have comic book style
artists any more. No one with an original art style. Could be just my limited viewing
of LS decks since I don't normally search them out now.
 

Sar

Tarot Mucha seems promising.
 

LotusSong

The Ceccoli Tarot is just stunning; if I buy only one new deck this year it will be that one. I love it so much! It's wonderfully creepycute. It has this great dream-like atmosphere. There's something about the way it feels that reminds me of one of my favorite paintings, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Dorothea Tanning. Lovely. When it goes up on Amazon I'm going to try and preorder it.

Still not sure if I want the Silver Witchcraft and/or the Sacred Feminine. They both remind me strongly of BoS As Above, a deck I can read with but isn't one of my absolute favs. I'll probably wait until it comes out and other people start sharing pictures before I make up my mind.

The Tarot of the Nymphs doesn't speak to me at all, but I'm kind of appalled at how these women are being compared to strippers and pornstars! While it is disappointing to see yet another deck filled with barely covered women, I didn't see anything pornographic or provocative about their poses. Their bodies look rather natural to me - no globular basketball boobs, no broken backs to display their butt and breasts at the same time, no massive cleavage with no support, nothing. Out of the five cards shown not one of the women is even acknowledging the "camera", never mind posing sexily for it. If just kind of standing or sitting around in little clothes makes you look like a pornstar then I guess I look like a pornstar every time I step out of the shower. :/ Now the rest of the deck could prove me totally wrong, but that is certainly not the vibe I am getting from the cards shown.
 

Sibylline

The Ceccoli Tarot is just stunning; if I buy only one new deck this year it will be that one. I love it so much! It's wonderfully creepycute.

Lol, creepycute is exactly right! I'm all over the Ceccoli when it releases next year--I dare say that one deserves a preorder in my book.
 

Celtictarot

The Ceccoli deck is my deck for 2014, It keeps drawing me in.

I have a deck on pre-order in December and I will keep my eye out on the book depository for this one. I got the Dream Enchantress tarot and was very disappointed with it. Waiting for money to come through so I can get dosh in the bank for my Victorian Fairy Tarot. I keeps coming to me.