Symbolic Soul Tarot by Elisa Seitzinger

Black, White & Gold Tarot Where Every Detail Speaks

Some tarot decks tell you a story.

Symbolic Soul Tarot asks you to decipher one.

Created by acclaimed Italian illustrator Elisa Seitzinger, this extraordinary 78-card tarot combines dramatic black-and-white illustration with shimmering gold foil and an intricate visual language filled with symbols, figures, animals, plants and hidden details.

At first glance, the cards are striking.

Look again and they become considerably stranger.

Look longer and another symbol appears.

Symbolic Soul Tarot takes the familiar foundations of traditional tarot and transforms them into something richly artistic, mysterious and almost ritualistic.

This is not art added to tarot simply to make it beautiful.

It is art being used as a language.

✨ Art That Looks Back

Lo Scarabeo describes Symbolic Soul as being about a kind of art capable of shaking our world and allowing us to see through the veil of illusion.

That idea sits at the heart of the deck.

Elisa Seitzinger's illustrations aren't passive.

Figures stare directly from the cards.

Hands gesture.

Plants curl around bodies.

Animals appear as companions and symbols.

Objects sit within carefully constructed compositions.

Every element seems to have been placed deliberately.

Rather than racing immediately towards a traditional card meaning, Symbolic Soul encourages you to stop.

Look.

Notice.

Interpret.

What caught your eye first?

What did you miss?

Why does one particular symbol seem more important today than it did yesterday?

This is tarot designed for contemplation.

🖤 Black, White & Gold

The visual identity of Symbolic Soul Tarot is unmistakable.

The cards are dominated by bold black-and-white illustration, punctuated by luxurious gold foil impressions.

The limited palette gives every line additional weight.

Black creates depth.

White creates space.

Gold becomes light.

Instead of relying upon dozens of colours to establish mood, Seitzinger uses contrast, pattern, symmetry and symbolism to create cards that feel simultaneously contemporary and ancient.

The result is elegant without being delicate.

Decorative without becoming superficial.

And absolutely glorious when the gold catches the light.

🔮 Familiar Tarot Beneath the Symbolism

Although its artwork is highly distinctive, Symbolic Soul Tarot remains connected to familiar tarot traditions.

Readers accustomed to the Rider-Waite-Smith system will recognise many of the underlying archetypes and compositions.

That familiarity gives you an anchor.

Then Seitzinger begins adding layers.

Traditional tarot symbolism meets her own visual vocabulary, encouraging you to move beyond simply recognising the card and towards examining what this particular interpretation might be saying.

For experienced readers, that makes Symbolic Soul particularly rewarding.

You know where you are.

But the scenery has changed considerably.

👁️ A Tarot Made for Intuitive Reading

Symbolic Soul is particularly suited to readers who enjoy letting imagery lead the reading.

Instead of immediately reaching for instructions, spend some time with the card itself.

Notice:

Figures • Animals • Plants • Hands • Objects • Direction • Repetition • Pattern • Light • Shadow • Gold

Ask yourself what those elements mean to you.

The symbolism can work on several levels at once.

Something may carry a recognised historical or esoteric association.

Something else may trigger a personal memory.

Another detail may simply create an emotional response.

All of those reactions can become part of the reading.

This is where Symbolic Soul really begins to earn its name.

🌙 Tarot as a Mirror

Tarot has always been particularly good at showing us what we're already carrying.

A fear.

A desire.

A possibility.

A truth we've been avoiding with Olympic-level determination.

Symbolic Soul amplifies that reflective quality.

Its images invite projection.

Different readers may notice completely different details within the same card.

And the same reader may see something entirely different when returning to a card months later.

The image hasn't changed.

You have.

That makes this a beautiful deck for journalling, meditation and slower forms of tarot practice where the goal isn't simply to obtain an answer but to understand why the answer matters.

🎨 About Elisa Seitzinger

Elisa Seitzinger is an Italian illustrator and visual artist known for her highly distinctive symbolic style.

Her work draws inspiration from diverse artistic traditions including medieval and Renaissance imagery, sacred and devotional art, folklore, mythology, esotericism and traditional decorative illustration.

The result is a visual language that can feel strangely timeless.

Her figures could belong to another century.

Yet the compositions feel unmistakably contemporary.

Symbolic Soul Tarot brings that artistic language into a complete tarot system, allowing each card to function both as a divination tool and as an individual piece of symbolic artwork.

Seitzinger is also the artist behind Herbarium Oracle, making her work particularly recognisable to collectors of contemporary esoteric art.

🃏 78 Symbolic Worlds

Across the complete 78-card deck, the Major and Minor Arcana become individual symbolic compositions.

Each card can be read traditionally.

Intuitively.

Visually.

Or simply contemplated as artwork.

That makes Symbolic Soul particularly rewarding for:

Traditional tarot readings • Intuitive readings • Daily cards • Meditation • Journalling • Symbol study • Shadow work • Creative inspiration • Personal reflection

It's also the kind of deck that grows with familiarity.

The first reading reveals one layer.

The tenth may reveal another.

And somewhere around the fiftieth you'll probably notice a tiny detail that has apparently been sitting there watching you the entire time.

Tarot does enjoy that sort of thing.

✨ Why You'll Love Symbolic Soul Tarot

• Complete 78-card tarot deck
• Created and illustrated by Elisa Seitzinger
• Dramatic black-and-white artwork
• Beautiful gold foil impressions
• Rich symbolic imagery
• Rooted in familiar tarot traditions
• Particularly rewarding for intuitive readers
• Excellent for meditation and journalling
• Strong feminine imagery throughout the deck
• Ideal for symbolism and art lovers
• Multilingual instructions included
• Generous 70 × 120 mm card size
• Lo Scarabeo Golden Premium tarot
• Selected as a Lo Scarabeo Editor's Pick
• Published by Lo Scarabeo

🌿 Perfect For

Art tarot collectors • Symbolism lovers • Intuitive tarot readers • Experienced tarot readers • Rider-Waite-Smith readers • Gold foil deck collectors • Black-and-white art lovers • Esoteric art enthusiasts • Journalling • Meditation • Shadow work • Lo Scarabeo collectors • Elisa Seitzinger collectors

It also makes a striking gift for someone who appreciates illustration and design, even if their tarot collection has not yet achieved independent nation-state status.

Give it time.

📦 In the Box

• 78 tarot cards
• Gold foil impressions
• Multilingual instructions
• Presentation box

📖 At a Glance

Title: Symbolic Soul Tarot

Creator & Artist: Elisa Seitzinger

Publisher: Lo Scarabeo

ISBN: 9788865277751

Cards: 78

Card Size: 70 × 120 mm

Artwork: Black, white & gold

Special Finish: Gold foil impressions

System: Traditional tarot / Rider-Waite-Smith influenced

Themes: Symbolism, art, intuition, illusion, reflection & the soul

Instructions: Included

Edition: Multilingual

Original Publication: 29 November 2022

Publisher Collection: Golden Premium Tarot

Publisher Recognition: Lo Scarabeo Editor's Pick

Product Type: Tarot Deck

🖤 Why We Love It at Oneness Emporium

Symbolic Soul is one of those decks where the photographs don't quite prepare you for the real thing.

Then the gold catches the light.

And suddenly you understand.

But what really keeps us interested isn't the foil.

It's everything underneath it.

Elisa Seitzinger has packed these cards with symbols.

The longer you look, the more they seem to contain.

You can read Symbolic Soul traditionally and it works beautifully.

Or you can forget everything you know for five minutes and simply ask:

What am I seeing?

That's when this deck becomes particularly interesting.

There is something old about it.

Something contemporary.

Something sacred.

Something slightly strange.

And an enormous amount to explore.

Three years after Symbolic Soul first arrived on the Oneness shelves, we still think it deserves considerably more than three sentences on a product page.

So it has finally received its long-overdue Oneness glow-up.

Better late than leaving Elisa Seitzinger sitting in a corner of Shopify with 2023 SEO forever.