🌈✨ MUST-SEE MAGIC! Radiant Wise Spirit Tarot Exposed & Explored! 🃏💫

All you need to know about the Radiant Wise Spirit Tarot Review by Lo Scarabeo. #beautiful #decks #divination #oracle #cards #review #tarot #tarotcards One of my favorite RWS decks of all time is the Universal Waite Tarot (a vintage Belgium printing, of course!). I fell in love with it as a teenager for its clean linework and dynamic colors, and it remains a "go to" deck in my collection. Even though the Robin Wood is my ride-or-die deck, I reached for the Universal Waite first for years when I gave readings for others. (Well, at least others who weren't in my coven.)
I still maintain that that the Universal Waite is the best version of the Rider Waite Smith deck on the mass market today. To me, Mary Hanson-Roberts' recoloring is the sharpest and most detailed there is while maintaining Pamela Colman Smith's original linework. You can spend hours looking at all the detail in these cards. But I got into the practice of letting my clients take pictures of their readings. One thing led to another, and the next thing you know I've got photo after photo of various card readings populating my Instagram. I started to notice that the Universal Waite tends to look washed out when photographed. At first, I attributed that to questionable photography and an abundance of filters. But then I started noticing that one deck's cards photographed very, very well no matter what. After following a few hashtags, I eventually determined that these cards all came from Lo Scarabeo's 2016 Pamela Colman Smith RWS Tarot deck. From what I could tell in photographs, the coloring was really something to take notice of. The RWS deck is generally a very yellow deck, but this particular rendering leaned heavily on the blues and had been computer shaded to give a decidedly "moody" effect. In fact, I called this deck the "moody blues" deck for ages. I did eventually come across one of these decks in a shop and seriously contemplated buying it, but passed at that time rationalizing that I already had a perfectly useful RWS that I was more than happy with for all other purposes. "I can always get this one later," I rationalized.
Unfortunately for me, Lo Scarabeo still publishes a Pamela Colman Smith RWS Tarot deck…but the cards it contains are not the moody, atmospherically colored ones. They are not the ones that called to me throughout Instagram and Pinterest.
I don't know the official story behind the change, but what I've pieced together is that when Lo Scarabeo first began publishing the PCS RWS with the blue backs, most people were quite pleased with the production as it was a nice, clean printing of the Pam A deck. Unfortunately, US Games believes they hold the current copyright to the Pam A deck, at least in Anglophone countries. (Technically they don't…but that's a story for another day.) There was probably some legal action threatened, so Lo Scarabeo pulled a quick switch and packaged a Pam B deck they had in the works in this box.
That Pam B deck was this pretty atmospherically colored deck. Now, many people do genuinely love this coloring…but Lo Scarabeo handled the quick switch badly. There was no announcement of the change or obviously noticeable alteration to the packaging, so people were ordering what they thought was a traditional Pam A with blue backs and getting this weirdly colored Pam B with red, white, and green backs. There were a lot of angrily worded letters. Then Lo Scarabeo got a lot of negative feedback when this second version hit the American and UK markets, because it was being promoted as an homage to Pamela Colman Smith's original artwork…and it really wasn't what with the digitized coloring and the replacement of Smith's calligraphy at the bottom of the majors, aces, and courts with typeface.
Therefore, when the "atmospheric" stock ran out, Lo Scarabeo replaced it with a Pam B that had more standard coloration and restored Colman Smith's calligraphy. They also changed the back up a little, blowing up the first run's 12 rows of lilies and roses with a larger 8 rows.
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Unfortunately, Lo Scarabeo hadn't quite learned its lesson from the first change and maintained the similar packaging. By that time, loads of people were buying the PCS RWS specifically for its moody coloring and were quite upset by receiving the third deck. It took a few months for word to spread throughout the tarot community that these new cards weren't a subpar counterfeit.
In the end, I could not find a copy of the atmospheric PCS RWS (version 2) that I had fallen in love with, and I have to admit I was a little crushed. But then I heard that Lo Scarabeo was bringing that art back this year in a new, borderless deck, the Radiant Wise Spirit Tarot.
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[@ZoeysTarotReviews]

Excellent Review Rob! This is one of my favorites. Take care!

[@MysticRob82]

Thank you zoey!

[@andreasschoen207]

I have been enjoying your channel for a while now.... thank you for sharing and this deck is awesome I have it and love it.

[@MysticRob82]

You are so welcome!