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This is by far the most beautiful Tarot deck I have purchased over many years. I collect Tarot decks and SACRED TAROT by Mekasthos just blows me away! It has a visual lightness about it and the depictions on every card are spot on! The only hitch w/this deck is that one must scan & access the QR code for the Guidebook & that's something I do not know how to do. I know I can use other guidebooks for clarification, but I like the book to be included with the boxed deck. Also, maybe the edges of cards could be gilded to polish off the "Sacredness" of them. Otherwise, I gave this deck 5 stars because it is indeed beyond beautiful!

Unlike most reviewers, I take at least a month with each Tarot card deck I review, in order to get a feal for the deck and how it works for the main uses of a Tarot card deck, and I write a full and in-depth review, rather than hitting the high points. If you're looking to understand more about how this deck works, about who it works best with/for, and about what we observed when using this on quite a few people (inside and outside of the family), then this is the review you should read, to help you decide. If you just want to look at pictures of the cards, those reviews are already out there, but, if you want to really understand this deck and the feel of it, before seeing it for yourself, please read this one. For background, Tarot's utility runs from the traditional game-play, where the cards were originally used as a standard deck of playing cards, to the practical, where the cards are used for thought and journaling exercises either as individual points of inspiration or as a deck used to guide a person through a journaling exercise, and finally to the spiritual, where the cards can be used as anything from a prayer-aid to a divination tool. It's impossible to give a full review of a Tarot deck without using it for the most common purposes, and that takes a genuine investment of time. So, first off, as to the simplest uses, where this is either a divination deck or a playing card deck, it works perfectly well, because it relies on the standard and required imagery for each deck. This has the numerical values and face cards for a playing deck, and it has the traditional (and most common) imagery for a Tarot card deck, which makes it perfect for those uses. There is nothing wrong with the deck, as to its ability to function in both of those uses, and, in the end, it all comes down to how you feel about the imagery and whether or not you like the images they've chosen here. What you want to look at is what you should choose, when it comes to a deck with the traditional imagery, including their inclusion of icons on each of the pip cards, with actual physical wands/pentacles/etc., numbering the total number listed on the card itself, on each pip card from ace through ten. INSPIRATION, otherwise known as the most important aspect of every Tarot deck. After game-play and divination-readings, we come to the most challenging and vital and useful of the aspects of the deck, which is how the images work in your mind and in your spirit, and that's a far more complex aspect of Tarot cards than just doing a reading and looking up meanings in a Rider-guidebook. When using Tarot cards for spiritual guidance, as a prayer aid, or for inspiration, as a single card or looking at all cards or laying out a card-reading, the cards must "speak" to the user. This requires the user to feel something when looking at each card. The imagery must, again, "speak" to the soul of the user, by conjuring images of the past or by evoking feelings of the issue the user has in mind. The colors must trigger something in the user, the layout of the card must be complex enough or simple enough to function well with that person's mind (and mindset), and even the numbers on the cards must be either prominent enough or small enough to work with how that person's mind best processes information. As an example, try to think of an autistic child, then a statistically normative child, then a dyslexic child, then an adult child who is struggling to let go of childhood and move into full adulthood. Right off the bat, you know that the autistic child needs larger numbers to draw their focus, the adult will prefer small numbers as part of that feeling of being more adult, the dyslexic will need numerical-numbers spaced father apart without any hint of roman-numerals or too-close-spacing so that they can read more easily, and the statistically normative child will turn focus toward what color the numbers are written in or the font because their mind will wander pretty quickly after seeing/processing those numbers; and you know this because you have been a child and you've had life experience to teach you what each group will most likely respond to, on average. And that's just numbers, not including imagery or coloring on the cards. With that in mind, it's vital to first ask yourself who this deck is for and what their brain will best respond to. Utility of the deck, in therapy or journaling or as a spiritual aid, will be increased by picking a deck with colors and themed-images and even numbers that work well with the mind of the person you're buying this for. And this is a death-themed deck, that is very squarely in the realm of dark and spiritual and afterlife and even justice, if a person sees an abuser in the cards' images or if a person sees beloved-victims (or even self-as-victim) in the cards. This is not a deck for fun. This is a death for someone who is accepting of death or working toward accepting deaths in their life. For me, as a person dealing with long-term grief over deaths in my family, and on in particular, the death-imagery is productive. For a depressed person, it would be contraindicated, and I want to be very clear that death-imagery is Dangerous for a person who is depressed, and you should NEVER allow a depressed person to use a death-themed deck for any purpose. But, for me, dealing with grief, this is useful. The imagery of death is productive, in its ability to remind me that everyone I've loved and lost is a person who went through the same transition into the next world, and my duty to them is to support them in being gone from my world, rather than lamenting their loss for the rest of my life. So, as to the death theme, I believe this is most useful for a person who needs to be reminded that life and death are linked and that acceptance of death is a vital part of maturing as we age. It's also a great theme for the goth in your life, and I've got a couple of those who commented that the deck is "cool" and "has a great goth vibe". So there's that as well. When it comes to the color scheme, they did a wonderful job of including of bright pops of color, to prevent the deck from being boring or depressing. There is a dance-of-death theme, rather than a dead-and-gone theme, where the skeletons are vibrant and alive in the images where they are meant to be alive, and they mirror the Rider deck when they are meant to be laid out and deceased or dying. They seem to move in their dance, they interact with the world around them, and there's a very strong Day Of The Dead vibe in the cards, with a feeling of life after death. I'd almost describe some of the imagery as being very Catholic, and there are images that remind me of artwork I've seen in the homes of Catholic friends. Beyond the content and color and theme, there are a few things to know about the deck. The "Lovers" card is of two men, with very clear male physique in the nether-regions, and that can be really wonderful or really disconnected, depending on the person. If you're a woman with two ex-husbands or two exes of the great-love variety, then this card has real meaning and feeling behind it, that almost feels (during readings or journaling exercises) like God reaching out to say that the men who hurt you are of-the-past, in His hands, and taking their own journey, where the sun and light in their life (you) has been left behind, and so they stand closer to death and closer to darkness than to the light. That's very powerful and very personal, if you're a woman with two past loves who harmed you, especially if they were violent or cruel, and the religious imagery connects to the God of the big-three monotheistic-religions in the world, which is also very useful for the average person. But then it's also good for a gay man, who could see beauty in the image, or also two past loves who left him behind. That card has great meaning for two of the people we tested it with, who were both heterosexual women and who were both greatly harmed by two men that they loved and cared-for only to be left behind by each of those men. The rest of the imagery in the deck is male and female, very clearly, or so perfectly skeletal that many images are open to your interpretation, which makes this a good deck for someone with issues they wish to work out that involve both male and female aggressors or male and female losses. As to diversity, which I noticed someone wrote about in a rather misguided review, the persons in the deck are all skeletal (deceased and without skin) or shown as dead and rotting, with no color to their skin. They are not shown as to race. If you look at clothing, some are wearing traditional garb that could be interpreted to be African, and that choice was clearly deliberate, because those garments are usually more ancient-Roman or ancient-Greek but have color like African robes, to show that there is a worldly quality here. There are images with traditional Hispanic patterns I recognize from southern Mexico, but then also African robes, and one card has a pattern on the garment that I saw in Haiti; so, this deck is actually very diverse, including a male/male "Lovers" card, but it's diversity is shown in clothing, not in skin, given that all are the same in death. The entire purpose of a death-themed deck that doesn't show skin-tone is to show that all are Equal in death, which we are. Spiritually, as human beings, we are all equal, and death shows this to be true, as bodies fade away into dust, leaving only the soul. For journaling, when picking one card, this has a lot to offer, primarily due to the colorful clothing and pops of color that pull your eye around the card. But the primary theme is death, and each card will lead the user to journal about death and feelings about death or dying or loss. When doing a reading, either in prayer or as a therapy-aid, then journaling, this makes the user contemplate mortality and the feelings we all need to work through concerning loss and pain and aging and even seeing that changing-face looking back at us in the mirror while our souls still feel so very young. I believe that this is a very useful deck for a person who needs to work through issues of grieving, issues of loss, fears over mortality, worries over aging, and even feelings of being disconnected from the dead in our lives. But it's also very useful for a goth-person who really loves death imagery. I will say that, in our family, the happiest user was one of those two heterosexual women who were left behind by two great loves who used her and cast her off, because she kept getting that "Lovers" card of the two skeletal men, where one even had longer hair, like the men in her life. She kept getting that card, and praying over that idea, and she saw a very clear image of darkness following those who inflict darkness and pain upon those who love them, as if she was being told that light comes to her life, when she embraces light and lets go of those who must always stand in darkness. For her, it was the most useful deck we tested, and everyone really responded positively to the multicultural-garments and the feeling of death-around-the-world that was conjured by this deck. The only reason this gets four-stars instead of five-stars was that the use of pip-icons throughout the deck, as we see with many traditional decks, takes visual-space away from a more complex image on the card, and there really isn't any inspiration found in the pip-icons. When you have ten wands in an image, you don't have room for much else, and so the card has less impact for the user who is journaling or using the card for therapeutic purposes or using the card as a prayer aid. If you use any grand guidebook for Rider, this conforms, and it's actually really easy to use with the top guidebooks, but the use of large pip-icons on cards that aren't actually pip-cards (they do have full images included on these cards) takes visual-space and mental-space away from the image that the user may need to see. In other words, if using your Tarot deck for card-game-play or for classic Tarot-card-reading with a Rider guidebook (they don't bother including one, since the cards were designed to be used with the most popular books out there), this is perfect, because it has those large pip-icons on the number-cards. However, if using this for prayer or journaling or thought-exercises or inspiration or guided-dreaming, the pip-icons slightly detract from the experience because they take the place of other objects that could have been included in each image. So, it's five-stars for use as a Tarot-reading-deck or playing-card-deck, but only four-stars for guided imagery or therapy or prayer-aid or journaling or even guided-dreaming, because they lost some image-space to those large pip-icons floating about on each of those ace-through-ten cards. Overall, it's a solid four-stars, and I think that this deck can be of great use to anyone seeking to deal with feelings about death and dying and life and loss, but also anyone dealing with two men having done them wrong. The "Lovers" card was so inspiring to another person in the family, after seeing how it inspired two women who were done-wrong by two men each, that she took the deck to do a reading on a gay male friend, who also said that this card brought up feelings like he was being told that he is light in this life and good and kind, and the people who threw him away so that they could be with angrier and louder and even more violent men were now trapped in darkness by those decisions, while he has lightness to find in this life. It was a very productive choice to make the two skeletons in the "Lovers" be two male skeletons. If they were flesh-and-blood, it would really only work for a hopeful reading for a gay-male or a polyamorous female or male, but, being skeletons against a black-background makes it feel like it's for women who were hurt by too many men or for men who were hurt by too many men, with a feeling of looking into the future of those who do great harm. It's a very inspiring image, and I almost want to give five-stars just for that image and how much it helped a few people I did readings for with these cards. Basically, this is a winner, as a deck to use for working through issues of accepting death or healing from loss or letting go of worry over the afterlife. It's not for the depressed, because you have to be in a more positive frame of mind to confront such difficult issues, and it's not for someone who is too early in their grieving to find comfort in thoughts of the afterlife and life after death. It's only for someone who is healed enough to see something light and good in these cards, and for someone who can feel hope in thoughts of accepting losses while letting go of those who are waiting for us. Again, please don't use this with anyone who is really suffering from depression, especially depression centering on death and dying. It's for after we come back to hoping, but when we are still troubled by the losses, and it's for people who find hope in the afterlife, not for those who are still too raw to feel hope.

The Mekasthos Skeleton Tarot Deck has such a good vibe to it. The moment I opened the box, the cards just felt right — they have a really nice hand feel, not too slippery, not too stiff, and easy to shuffle whether you’re a beginner or more experienced. The artwork is clear, beautiful, and surprisingly expressive for a skeleton‑themed deck, which makes readings feel both fun and meaningful. The electronic guide is a great bonus too, especially if you’re still learning or just want quick interpretations on the go. Overall, this deck has great energy, great art, and great usability. A lovely addition to any tarot collection.

I am in love with this deck! Not only does it fulfill my little macabre heart, but the artwork is really fantastic. It also helps that my first reading from the deck was highly auspicious (the one with the lovers card)! Additionally, I went through the deck and pulled out 8 additional cards that were my favorite from the deck, beginning with the devil cars. I am enjoying how the art mirrors some of the traditional Rider-Waite deck, but the personal twist on the art is what makes this deck so cool. I'm really thankful to have gotten the chance to try this deck because I'm about to start reading tarot professionally. It's nice to have this deck to add to my tool set. I read intuitively, although I know the general meaning of the cards. However, if you rely on the books to read tarot you'll have to use the QR code to download the book for this deck, a standalone book, or a book from another deck. This deck doesn't come with a physical book. The pdf download was 176 pages though. I'm a little but concerned that I couldn't find an author name for the book or an artist name for the card art. I'm not sure if I overlooked it or what. The deck is really easy to shuffle and the cards are relatively thick, so I feel like they'll stand up to daily use. Lastly, I loved that they sent a tarot card bag with the product so I could more easily store the cards. I'd definitely spend money on this deck.

As far as Tarot decks go, the Mekasthos Skeleton deck is just okay for me. The cards are printed on a medium-heavy card stock with a semi-gloss finish. They are nicely shaped and have a decent weight to them. These cards shuffled nicely out the box and are easy enough to spread. However, the printing is not the highest quality and the deck I got has a visible dot-matrix in the printing. I found it very distracting. I would love to see a printed guidebook instead of just a download for this price. As far as tarot decks go, this one is low-to-mid priced, but I just don't feel the quality is high enough for the MSRP to not include at least a basic printed guide sheet. Skeletons are not my typical choice, but I thought I would give them a try. Sadly, I was disappointed. The AI generated pictures just don't evoke the emotions of the cards they portray, and I found the black and white with color splash a bit dreary. However, if skeletons are your thing, you might really like these! I thought the included bag was a nice touch as not many decks actually come with a bag. Overall, these cards are a nice beginner deck, but far from my favorite deck due to the poor print quality and the lackluster AI artwork.

The AI art on these is very visually appealing, and I dig the light vibe. There is no guidebook, which is fine for me because I've been reading tarot for a long time. My issue with this deck is its incredible lack of diversity. I read for clients, family, and friends of various backgrounds, and this deck has NO representation aside from pale white skin. In today's day and age, I would expect there to at least be a little bit of diversity to every deck.

The artwork on this deck stands out right away. The designs are clear, detailed, and easy to interpret without feeling overwhelming, which makes it approachable for beginners but still engaging for someone with more experience. The cards have a smooth finish and a good thickness that makes them easy to shuffle without bending or feeling fragile. They hold their shape well and don’t feel like they’ll wear down quickly with repeated use. The guide support adds value, especially for learning or building confidence with readings. It helps make the deck more usable right away instead of needing outside references. The colors and imagery are consistent throughout the deck, giving it a cohesive feel that makes it enjoyable to work with regularly. After multiple uses, the edges are still holding up and the print hasn’t faded or scratched easily. This feels like a deck you can use often without worrying about it wearing out, while still enjoying the artwork and clarity it offers.

Its Ai generated, not worth 30$