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Ace of Cups and the Lover cards from the Soprafino Tarot.
November 17, 2024 at 9:49 AM
snickettes.bsky.social
i have had a very shitty no-good horrible week and it's only wednesday, so i have been comforting myself with tarot decks.

impulse-bought the soprafino after coveting it for years, bc it popped up at a discount on ebay. (the meneghello, of course, not the lo scarabeo, because i'm not a *plebe*)
A grid of cards from the Tarocchi Soprafino, published by Il Meneghello. The tuck box cover with the World image and a wax seal is in the middle. A row of Major Arcana cards from the Tarocchi Soprafino The suits from the Tarocchi Soprafino The four court cards and cards 1 (ace), 2, 3, and 4 from the Wands suit of the Tarocchi Soprafino.
August 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
Oh oh oh! The V&A's video showcasing historical tarot decks in their collection! The Visconti, Soprafino, and Minchiate Etruria are divine #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot

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Unboxing Tarot Decks Through the Ages 🔮💀🌙 | Ancient Rare Historical & Modern Tarot Cards
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January 4, 2026 at 4:27 PM
snickettes.bsky.social
The Soprafino Tarot folows the Tarot de Marseilles system really faithfully with not too many variants. The suit cards you see here are universal for all the Marseilles decks still through today. I love this two of pentacles! + love this Queen of Swords w/her disingenuous "who, me?" gesture.
The suit of pentacles from the Soprafino Tarot. The suit of swords from the Soprafino Tarot. Yes all those bendy things are swords.
August 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
Easy-to-access, affordable Soprafino tarot remake: Soprafino Dellarocca by Da Brigh #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot

Cons: keywords (I ignore) + the artist smoothed out the original engraved lines, causing some loss of detail

Pro: Exquisitely captures the shimmering nature of the original pastel shades!
Close-up image of the tower card, showing the beautiful white, blue, orange-yellow, pink pastel colours of this deck Counter clockwise from top right: the sturdy, telescopic box featuring the Temperance card, purple and gold ornate card backs, the Devil card, 5 of Coins, and 3 of Batons From left to right: Temperance and Tower cards
July 18, 2026 at 1:15 PM
snickettes.bsky.social
These cards are all lovely examples of the Tarot de Marseilles system, only as you can see they are much more realistic images than the TdM, which is traditionally quite cartoonish. These colors are SO striking and beautiful. This is a 19th-c. deck fusing a contemporary art style w/medieval imagery.
Major Arcana cards from the Soprafino Tarot. Major Arcana cards from the Soprafino Tarot.
August 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
snickettes.bsky.social
The major difference between the tarot you're familiar with, which is the Rider-Waite-Smith, and the Tarot de Marseilles, is that the TdM has a standard pip pattern for all the numbered cards in the suits instead of individually illustrated images (which was all Pamela Coleman Smith's brainchild).
The suit of cups from the Soprafino Tarot. The ever-phallic suit of batons (wands) from the Soprafino Tarot.
August 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
Look at these swashbuckling, dashing Cavalier cards (Knights)! The Perrin Tarot (c. 1880) republished by Alberto Peruzzo Editore, now OOP). A rare 19th-century Italian tarot inspired by the Soprafino tradition. The Queens are also exceptionally beautiful #TarotTuesday #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot
The Knight of Swords The box, card backs with a grey and white diamond pattern, and sample cards from top left to bottom right: Il Matto (the Fool), 9 of Coins, Ace of Cups, Popess. From left to right: Queen of Swords, 2 of Batons, Cavalier of Coins, Temperance
May 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
snickettes.bsky.social
Now for the other surprise I got this afternoon: my Soprafino Tarocchi arrived!
Box for the Soprafino Tarocchi by Il Meneghello, featuring the World card (Il Mondo) affixed to the front. The cover and inside of the deck box, featuring an insert explaining the history of the Soprafino Tarot, next to a little folded paper insert serving as a guidebook. The Fool card (Il Matto) and the Magician card (Il Bagattel) bracketing two inserts for the Soprafino Tarot, one explaining the card history and one certifying that this deck is a limited edition and this is copy #442 of 2000. The Fool and the Magician are both more or less the standard Tarot de Marseilles system imagery, with the Fool holding a knapsack over his shoulder and a walking stick, accompanied by a little dog, and the Magician standing at a work table full of stuff. What's atypical is the Magician is holding a goblet instead of his usual baton, and the assemblage of stuff on his table includes a teapot. He seems to be a cobbler!
August 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Ancient Italian Tarot: Renaissance Beauty Lives On - Tarot With A Twist
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Ancient Italian Tarot: Renaissance Beauty Lives On - Tarot With A Twist
Ancient Italian Tarot (Soprafino) deck review: the 1880 Dellarocca engravings, its Serravalle Sesia origins, and its traditional Marseille structure.
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October 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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😮Curioso mensaje el del Tarot Soprafino para hoy, día de la toma de posesión de Trump.

¿Qué respuesta ves tú en estas cartas?

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼Te leo en comentarios 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
January 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
Edoardo Dotti's tarot from mid-19th-century Milan, republished by Laura Tuan/Editions de Vecchi. Dotti's tarots drew from the style of the earlier printer Gumppenberg's famous Soprafino tarot, but with the Habsburg eagle images removed, so as not to piss off Napoleon III #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot
The Temperance card, depicting the winged Virtue pouring water between two jugs. From left to right, the box, beige card backs with a dotted design, Two of Batons card, and Empress card (showing the Empress seated on a throne and holding a shield upon which the double-headed eagle symbol of the former Habsburg dynasty is not-so-convincingly blacked out. The 6 of Swords, Moon, and Ace of Cups cards from left to right. The cards are oversized, reproduce the aging and stains from the originals, and are printed in this 1994 French language edition on textured art card stock.
March 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
snickettes.bsky.social
I actually love the tarot de marseilles maaaaybe more than rider-waite decks. but they're slippery for me to read with because it's been decades since i was into numerology and i've never sat down to properly learn to read the TdM system. But I love them!

This ends our tarot haul post for today!
A closer look at the Fool, the Magician, the two of cups, the ace of pentacles, and the queen of swords from the Soprafino Tarot.
August 9, 2025 at 10:38 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
Affordable, beautiful historical Italian tarot alert (links ⬇️)!

The Soprafino deck (1835) by engraver Carlo Dellarocca and printer Ferdinand Gumppenberg, republished by Lo Scarabeo as 'The Classic Tarot'

This deck inspired scores of others throughout the 19th century #HistoricalTarot #TarotSky
The sweet-faced Page of Cups, in a beautiful pink and grass green tunic, with a flower crown over his flowing auburn hair. Cards from left to right: Justice, the Moon, and Queen of Batons The box featuring the dancing couple from the Sun card (with Lo Scarabeo's Spanish title 'El Tarot Clasico', because I happened to purchase it in Spain), and three sample cards from left to right: 3 of Cups, Devil, and 3 of Batons.
June 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
Also the engraved images on the cards are in fact very crisp and detailed--it is just that my mobile phone camera (and my abilities as a photographer) are rather poor, so my photos are always slightly blurry 🙄 I can't emphasise enough how **crucially influential** this deck was in tarot history!
The Soprafino Deck of Carlo Dellarocca
A new Tarot deck style was born in 1835 when the Milanese printer Ferdinand Gumppenberg commissioned a deck from the artist/engraver Carlo Dellarocca. As the most elegant and refined Italian deck o…
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June 9, 2026 at 12:47 PM
cartonancy.bsky.social
Ace of Staves: initiates + what we want [action]

The 1s begin the suits and, as the seed, they hold the fullest potential of the suit. In trad decks, they are often being held out for us. Will you take it?

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February 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
hagazussainglasgow.bsky.social
A tarot by Edoardo Dotti (1865 in Milan), reprinted by Deviant Moon Inc. Edoardo's father, Teodoro, took over Ferdinando Gumppenberg's print shop. Dotti tarots thus are derived from the Soprafino. Scrumptious dark pink and mallard green and blue colours! #TarotSky #HistoricalTarot #TarotTuesday
The tuck box (stating Edoardo Dotti Lombardy Tarot 1865, Deviant Moon Inc. and decorated with the Strength card showing a figure wrestling a lion) and card backs (with a yellow and blue geometric pattern and the text 'Milano'). Also three cards from left to right: The 5 of Cups, Queen of Swords, and Ace of Coins. The latter has the printer's name (Edoardo Dotti) and location (Milano) printed around the circumference of the coin. Three cards from the Edoardo Dotti tarot deck from left to right: Justice, the Moon, and the Knight of Swords.
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
snickettes.bsky.social
what is this if not basically a leg!
the ace of wands from the Tarocco Soprafino which is supposed to be a flowering broken-off tree branch (being held by a ruffled-sleeved 17th-century noble hand) but also looks a lot like a ham hock
July 19, 2026 at 5:21 PM
mequetrefe-mx.bsky.social
🔮 Lectura del día: 🌿 Siete de Oros (VII) 🍂
Hoy no hay prisa. El Siete de Oros nos invita a enraizar y esperar. No se trata de hacer más, sino de sostener lo ya sembrado.

Guías: 🌱 Raíz

#tarot #arcanosmenores #paciencia
Carta del Siete de Oros del Antiguo Tarot Italiano, también conocido como Tarot Soprafino. Siete monedas decoradas con motivos vegetales están dispuestas simétricamente en un patrón vertical sobre fondo crema, enmarcadas por detalles ornamentales dorados y rojos. El estilo clásico refleja la estética italiana del siglo XIX, con trazos precisos, tonos apagados y sin figuras humanas. La carta transmite orden, espera y estabilidad.
May 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
mequetrefe-mx.bsky.social
🔮 Lectura del día: 🕷️ La Emperatriz (III) 🩸
Lo que no soltaste ayer…
hoy puede devorarte.

No todo lo que cuida te ama.
No todo lo fértil nutre.
Haz el corte.

Hoy.

Guías: control

#Tarot #LaEmperatriz #Soprafino

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Carta “La Emperatriz (III)” del Antiguo Tarot Italiano (Soprafino). La figura imperial aparece sentada con una corona, un cetro en una mano y un escudo dorado con águila en la otra. Su vestido azul y rojo y el pabellón detrás expresan autoridad y poder. En esta lectura, representa el lado oscuro del arquetipo materno y creativo: control, posesión, fertilidad excesiva y vínculos que consumen. Es una advertencia sobre lo que pasa cuando no se corta a tiempo.
April 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
mequetrefe-mx.bsky.social
🔮 Lectura del día: 💘 Los Enamorados (VI) 🌞
Hoy no decidas con la mente.

Siente con el alma.

El tarot Soprafino te recuerda que amar también es una elección.

El amor no se impone.

Se abre paso.

Y tú puedes abrirte con él.

Guías: apertura

#Tarot #LosEnamorados #Soprafino
Carta del tarot “Los Enamorados (VI)” del Antiguo Tarot Italiano (Soprafino). Un joven elegante sostiene la mano de una mujer vestida de rojo, mientras otra figura coronada lo observa. Arriba, un ángel con alas y arco apunta su flecha desde el cielo dorado. La escena sugiere decisión amorosa, conexión espiritual y belleza clásica del tarot romántico italiano, con detalles finos en el estilo grabado del siglo XIX.
April 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
mequetrefe-mx.bsky.social
🔮 Lectura del día: ☀️ El Sol (XIX) 🌿
Cuando el Sol aparece en el tarot, todo se ilumina. Hoy es un día para confiar y brillar. 🌞 Deja que la luz guíe tus pasos y recuerda que la claridad está dentro de ti. Expándete. Celebra.

Guías: plenitud

#Tarot #Energía #Confianza
Carta de El Sol del Antiguo Tarot Italiano (Soprafino). Un sol radiante domina la escena, esparciendo rayos dorados por el cielo despejado. Abajo, una pareja vestida con atuendos del siglo XIX camina por un jardín florido, reflejando alegría, armonía y plenitud.
March 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
michaelmhughes.bsky.social
Magician wants to party.

Tarocco Soprafino di F. Gumppenberg
1835
Ed. Il Meneghello

#Tarot
November 25, 2024 at 12:53 PM
michaelmhughes.bsky.social
Drew three cards. Took me a moment to get the message.
Tarocco Soprafino di F. Gumppenberg (1835)
Ed. Il Meneghello
November 25, 2024 at 10:01 AM
michaelmhughes.bsky.social
Soprafino Death Card | Tarot Heritage https://tarot-heritage.com/2016/11/05/soprafino-death-card/#more-1481
Soprafino Death Card
When I saw this print on the Hyperallergic art blog, I im...
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November 25, 2024 at 5:01 AM