[Lady Iron Side]

Scapini uses these color symbols/meanings through out his deck.

Originally Posted by Ronald Decker

Wirth was one of several tarotists in Paris who worked with the Tarot de Marseille and, in the 1920's, had a particular interest in color symbolism. Wirth presents the following choices in a diagram

The Astral Light

Red = Spirit
Yellow = body
Blue = Soul
Green = Bodily soul
Purple = Spiritual Soul
Orange = Bodily Spirit

Originally Posted by Ronald Decker

These meaning descend from Chaldean astrology and Egyptian alchemy. Both figure prominently in Wirth's book.

Purple = assigned to majestic Jupiter - made the patron of Christianity (Wirth's "Spiritual Soul").

Blue = Mercury - the guide of departed souls (Wirth's Soul).

Green = Venus - sacred - patroness of fertility.

Originally Posted by Ronald Decker

further choices refer to the colors of the given planets

Golden = Sun - intellectual perfection
Siver = Moon - Moral perfection
Reddish = Mars
Black = Saturn

White = purity
Black = death, mystery, delusion, conspiracy

Originally Posted by Ronald Decker

Wirth consistently used his color symbolism in his trumps. Luigi Scapini is equally faithful to Wirth's preferences. Scapini makes ingenious use of all three authors - Wirth, Levi, and Papus.

[Lady Iron Side]

I am posting up some of the resources I used in figuring out Scapini symbols on each card and colors used, so that I don't have to repeat in every thread I start, stating who and where I got the info from. so I posting it here so I just have to say it once. I don't upset the authors.

Art of Arcana - Ronald Decker
21 ways to read a tarot - Mary K. Greer
Tarot Companion - tracy porter
The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
The complete tarot reader - Teresa c. Michelsen

and others.

lol use many resources, I own tooo many books. for it took all of them to break down the symbols that Scapini used in his deck.