Cards - After Tarot (Lo Scarabeo)

After Tarot. Lo Scarabeo, Italy. Full divinatory tarot deck, Mediterranean suited, 78 double-sided cards + divinatory-meanings booklet. Size: 66mm x 120mm.

Deck make-up:
Trumps: 0-21.
Pentacles (i.e. coins), wands (i.e. clubs), cups, swords: A, 2-10, foot jack ("page"), mounted jack ("knight"), queen, king.

The After Tarot was released in 2016 by Lo Scarebeo (in fact before its sister deck, the Before Tarot). This pleasing pack was authored by Pietro Alligo, with the artwork by Giulia F. Massaglia. The images on the After Tarot are set in time just moments after the familiar Pamela Colman Smith artwork of the 1909 classic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot. For example, on the Tower card, the tower is now actually collapsing, after being hit by a thunderbolt. On The Lovers, Adam has got over his passive stance with Eve and is now offering her the apple of temptation. The 3 of swords shows the heart with its wounds bandaged, the swords having now fallen out. And so on.s

An issue (for me) is that, as with the Before deck, somebody has apparently seen the need to alter the colour palette of the original PCS artwork – the lettered panels on these cards have been changed from the grey of the originals to a dark yellow, and the blue hues have been swung round to be more green in colour.

The deck is also available as part of a kit, which comes with a 160-page book by Corrine Kenner. I don't know how much content is shared with the book in the Before Tarot kit.

Click on any card to explore the design. Optionally, using the control below, you can display three cards for each rank: the card from this deck's sister deck, the Before Tarot; the card from the original Rider-Waite-Smith tarot; and the card from this deck.

Comparative images shown (in order: Before Tarot, Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, After Tarot (this deck)): No Yes

Trumps

Pentacles (i.e. coins)

The goblin figure on the page is a very strange idea and doesn't seem to fit with the tone of the rest of the pack.
Sometimes the artist seems a bit lost for inspiration. For example, on the knight, the figure seems to be admiring his pentacle, but that's pretty much what he did on the Pamela Colman Smith original too, so we don't seem to have moved on time-wise. Similarly, on the queen – aren't the PCS card and the After card a little too similar?

Wands (i.e. clubs)

Cups

Swords

There are some more examples here of the After cards not really being much different from the corresponding PCS "middle" cards: the 7, for instance, and the queen.

Extras

The deck on this page is one masterminded by a Golden Dawn (or its offshoots) member, or designed to adhere to their concepts of tarot. A list of other major such decks is given below (scroll/swipe to the right if needed):

Deck	Author/s	Artist/s (if diff.)	Release year	"Official" guide book	Notes
Marseilles tarot / Tarot de Marseille	unknown	various	15th century	The Tarot: Its Occult Signification, Use In Fortune-Telling, And Method Of Play, Etc.	The booklet cited (written in 1888 by Samuel L MacGregor Mathers of the Golden Dawn) gives "official" Golden Dawn divinatory meanings when using the Marseilles tarot (referred to at that time as the Italian tarot). In 1889, Swiss occultist and artist, Oswald Wirth, designed a well-known tarot specifically for esoteric use with his own versions of the trumps in the Marseilles pattern.
The Rider-Waite[-Smith] Tarot	Arthur Edward Waite	Pamela Colman Smith	1909	The [Pictorial] Key To The Tarot
Builders Of The Adytum (BOTA) Tarot	Paul Foster Case	Jessie Burns Parke	1931	The Tarot: A Key To The Wisdom Of The Ages or Highlights Of Tarot [NB doesn't cover pip cards]	Revised version of Rider-Waite with some "corrected" trumps and courts, and simple pip cards. Trumps also issued in colour form; full deck is b&w.
Thoth Tarot Deck	Aleister Crowley	Lady Frieda Harris	1972 (painted 1938-43)	The Book Of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot): A Short Essay On The Tarot Of The Egyptians
The Golden Dawn Tarot (aka The Whare Ra deck)	Israel Regardie	Robert Wang	1978	An Introduction To The Golden Dawn Tarot
The Hermetic Tarot	Godfrey Dowson		1979	Only the Little White Booklet that comes with the deck.	Black & white.
Golden Dawn Magical Tarot (aka The New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot)	Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero (with Israel Regardie)		1991	Golden Dawn Magical Tarot / The New Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot	"Ritual" was the earlier name. Do not confuse this deck with the one below – they are different!
The Magical Tarot Of The Golden Dawn	Pat Zalewski & Chris Zalewski	Skip Dudchous & David Sledzinski	2022	The Magical Tarot Of The Golden Dawn: Revised Ed.	Earlier editions had art by Jonathon A Pierce instead. This deck is not to be confused with the similarly named deck above!

Links to other Rider-Waite-Smith tarot pages