Surrealist Tarot by Luigi di Giammarino

[RachelBolan]

I’ve just acquired this deck and I was browsing through the cards. Since some of them are very different from the RWS cards, I was looking at the images, their figures, elements, colors, and my impressions, and then reading their meanings at the booklet.
I noticed that a lot of the card descriptions seem to be mixed. Like the Sun is an egg and it’s not mentioned in its description, but the Judgement card doesn’t have an egg and the description talks about the golden egg of thought. But the 10s of the minors was what confused me the most. IMO, it looks like all the 10s are mixed! I’ve looked for online reviews of this deck and haven’t found any mention of that, other than some people stating that this deck differs a lot from RWS.
So I was wondering if anyone has this deck and has a hard time figuring out some of the cards.
I’ll link a picture on the comments of how I believe the cards and the description of the booklet should actually be.

Discussion

[RachelBolan]

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The top line is the cards and their actual suits.
The bottom line is what suit I believe they should be in, according to the description in the booklet.

Here are the descriptions from the booklet:
– 10 of pentacles: The large table. There is no contrast between high and low, between material wealth and spiritual objectives.
– 10 of wands: The blank signature. Excessive thoughts, expectations and assumed commitments. The petrified god of self-imposed dogmatism demands its sacrifices.
– 10 of cups: Beautiful realities. Inner fulfillment. Filled with gratitude, the only remaining act is to immerse oneself in the present.
– 10 of swords: The relics of a Shadow. Eclipses of the inner sun in favour of the dawn of a black sun, a fake idol. Detachment from what one believed in. End of a cycle.

[RachelBolan]

In this deck, it’s said that freedom is the most important goal, and it’s attained by immersing in one’s own unconscious. The excess of rationality and logic is the curse and the prison of humans. So the dream world and the imagination are the way to reconnect with our inner (and true) selves, making peace with our dark side.
That’s the reason why I believe that the chess card is supposed to be the 10 of swords, because only by letting go of the illusion of logic and rationality (pictured by the chess table and pieces and what kind of looks like a toilet/spaceship) we can shatter the illusional life and our imagination and creativity can rise and free us.