A Month with the Shadowscapes Tarot | Review, Deep Dive Walkthrough & Pairings 

This is my soul deck. It was the deck that I clicked with the most and that I could read instantly, my thoughts flowing so freely that it was surprising because I was (and still am!) a newbie to tarot. I used the Shadowscapes exclusively for almost a year because I was so in love with it. It was the first deck where I didn't have to reach for the guidebook for every card or pull, and it was the deck that got me recording all my readings in a journal. I have a lot of fun just looking back and re-reading my interpretations of the cards, and seeing how they slowly evolved or got more detailed as I realized more things the more I worked with it. The sad thing is, I was discouraged from buying this deck for a long time because people constantly put it down as being 'meh' because it was too small, too detailed, too messy, difficult to see/read with, etc. ... When I finally did get it (because I couldn't stop thinking about it), I was blown away by how beautiful the artwork was and how much the deck clicked with me. So my takeaway from that experience was to try to be more genuine to my own feelings and not let others sway me so much -- a problem I've always had, because of past traumas that have made me always doubt myself and have too little self-love and self-worth. The Shadowscapes has been my constant companion on my healing journey, and I will cherish this deck forever, no matter how many other decks I might fall in love with.

Wow Lisa I hope you realise what you bring to this community. Your knowledge and way of explaining is incredible you just make people want to get their decks out and look at them again with fresh eyes and excitement. Cheers to you this was so good to watch 💜

I have this deck (without the book). This reads very energetically, especially with emotions. It's such a fluid deck 🙏

This is possible my favorite deck! I have had mine for years. I also have the larger Czech version and both of the art books; The Art of Shadowscapes Major Arcana (paperback), and the Art of Shadowscapes Minor Arcana (hardback) which have so much insight into the art, symbolism, and Stephanie Pui-Mun Law’s reflections. I also have the coloring book, and the app for my iPhone/iPad by Fool’s Dog Tarot apps. If you have any issues with seeing the artwork, the app makes up for that. You can really zoom in and see every detail in backlit glory!

OK. Let's just take a moment to appreciate the color coordination in this video.

What a great walkthrough, thank you Lisa! I had pulled this deck out to work with for Spring, I just love the artwork and the vibe of it. I use a magnifying glass with this deck so I can really dive into the beautiful art and see all those details, and that works really well for me.

Oh I've been waiting for this video to come out! Thank you so much!

Great job Lisa, the deck looks so much better! The artwork is to die for

One of the best overview's of this deck I have seen ! Thank you Lisa !!!

I love the personalized edging! Beautiful deck!

this is THE most beautiful deck I have ever seen, instant connection..I love Rider waite since college but this deck I had to have..just amazing excellent detailed review! best one on youtube, well done, ty!

Love this deck. I was lucky enough to find two copies of the Czech version with larger cards. Thankfully, I have the guide book in English!

I own this deck and think it's absolutely gorgeous. I'm so glad it ended up working out for you!

This is one of my all time favourite decks. The art is so detailed, I always discover new things in the images. Love the way they looked trimmed. It really makes the images pop.

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge. Very appreciated 😁

Great video! A lovely deck that I also don't work with very often. Makes me want to take it out and work with it now. Love the pairings near the end of the video. 💖

I'm late to the game finding this beautiful deck. I really enjoy your review and description of the cards. I purchased the ap for this deck and Amazon will be delivering my deck today. Thank you.

I’m so glad you made this video! I absolutely adore this deck! It’s one of my fave decks that I have, I do find myself always looking at the images as much as I can because they’re so detailed and it’s really great to just look at the little things! I would adore if they made a bigger version of this deck, I’d buy it in a heartbeat for sure because the images are so gorgeous and I just adore it’s energy. This deck definitely gives me fae vibes and it really feels like home! That Oracle deck definitely pairs well with it, I just might have to order it to pair with my Shadowscapes! Thank you so much for another wonderful video! 💙

I'm sooo glad you made this video! Shadowscapes is my favourite deck and my only problem was to find other decks to pair with it! Ah amazing, thanks so much xx

I do love this deck so much. I got mine out the other day and thought I really wanted to work with it again because it's sooooo beautiful 💓 Lovely pairs Lisa 🙏 Xxx

This is a gorgeous deck. One of my favorites.

Really enjoyed this deep dive lisa thank you for doing it. I'm lucky to have the Czech version with the bigger artwork, it is such beautiful artwork, watching your video there was a lot of little details I had missed. 😘❤

This is my absolute favorite deck I go back to all the time. You make me want to trim the borders but eeeeh, not sure I could do it. I bought a magnifying glass to see all the details. Sigh. I love it so. Your edging is gorgeous!

Thank you so much, I really enjoyed how you described them! Lots of love from Argentina 🇦🇷🤍🌊

I wanted a video deep diving on shadowscapes for so long! Definitely one of my favorite decks! Thank you

I love this deck trimmed like you did but I would be lost without the card titles, at least until I got to know them. I appreciate hearing your insights into each card. Now it's on my wish list.

Wonderful video, as always. I always think this deck is so gorgeous, but I wish the images weren't so small. It's hard for me to see all the wonderful elements in the cards. I LOVE how you've edged this deck and really enjoyed seeing how you used the spread cards with the deck.

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts in this deep dive Lisa, I always learn something new in them 💕 I trimmed 3 sides of my shadowscapes and left the title because that grey/silver border ate the artwork, it stands out so much better without them, the images have movement now. I also did multicoloured pastel edging but mine pulled a little too bright so I went over it with a Momento lilac which match the backs perfectly but you can still see the multicolour, so I’m really happy with it. So I did a Lisa on mine 😂 I use Shadowscapes when I’m feeling particularly emotional because of the flow and movement I get from the images.

One of my first decks. I love it so much.

It's so cool that you trimmed away the title~ It is not easy to recognize the card when there is no title. It needs real focus on the images! Great deep dive walkthrough~ I am going through the cards one by one with you~ Thank you!

This was my first tarot deck and it's definitely my soul deck.

This was my very first deck ever!! I love this! They also have a large deck as well if you want a bigger version.

I bought the deck because the artwork spoke to my soul. Unfortunately I got one with a crappy little booklet, so I will have to order another one with the real guidebook. I appreciated the insights you shared about the meanings of the cards.

This is my first deck and I love it so much! I started learning tarot June last year. 💖

I bought Shadowscapes originally in a tuck box, I loved it so much when I saw an edition with a larger guidebook I bought it too. The artwork in the book is still only black and white but it's an upgrade from the lwb in my tuckbox. If anyone prints a version of this with larger cards or borderless cards I will not hesitate to buy a third copy because I adore it that much. It's one of my all time favorites, the deck I'd grab if I had an emergency evacuation. I'd love to see it on oracle sized cards like Dreams of Gaia or Tarot of Mysical Moments. I already wanted this new edition of the Messenger oracle (I wasn't a fan of the old borders) but seeing you pair it with Shadowscapes is making it a must-have.

I love this deck so much but like you have felt visually challenged by the detail of the artwork. I edged mine with a silver Crayola glitter pen. Honestly, after watching your review I think I’ll trim the borders and ink the edges like you did!

Omg I knew which one was 5 of wands BUT I really thought the other one was too 😂😂 Got this deck like two days ago, and this video is SO helpful, thank you so much, lots of blessings 🤍🤍🤍

Enjoyed seeing those pairings, and was especially happy with how well it went with Spirit of the Animals. (It would probably also be great with your pocket Dreams of Gaia). I don't think I'll buy the actual cards unless there is a reprint, but I did spend 5 bucks on the app, which lets me expand the images and really appreciate them. Also, you can buy enlarged prints of some of these cards from the artist; I gave my friend a print of the queen of cups and my sister a print of the lovely tea party six of cups.

This could do well to have a “coffee table” sized book honestly! I don’t often use this deck but I love how it pairs with the new messenger Oracle deck love!!!!!

I love this deck, but I have never gotten on with it as a reading deck. Her work is absolutely stunning, but it’s so small. I’ve had it sitting on my shelf for like 8 years and have only read with it a handful of times. I always get her shadowscapes calendar every year, but there wasn’t one this year -that made me so sad. It translates so well in that format(it’s different paintings than the deck). I hope eventually they listen to the kajillion of us who have mentioned the deck should be bigger. I feel like this is a great deck for doing a single card draw deep dive for inner work. When you can sit with the image and analyze all the intricate symbolism. It’s funny timing tho, I literally just pulled this off the shelf last night to edge and work with again. I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this, Lisa -as always. I super dig your deep dives. Thanks for sharing with us! Edit: I love the messenger Oracle pairing. I am also going to try it with the oracle of the dragonfae-Lucy cavendish. I feel like that may pair well also

wow this makes me wanna break out my Shadowscapes Tarot and work with it. Also the Queen of the Moon Oracle (to me anyways) seems to work very well with the Moonchild Tarot I'm using them together in April my birthday month =D. (you put this out on my birthday yay)

I'm going to watch this later. First my thoughts as a means to present them without being influenced by the video and as a means to distance myself from them before delving into the video: Just got the app for the Shadowscape some time ago to see if it works for me. It may become part of my fantasy art/ tabletop gaming artist cycle of decks. Others are: - Ian Miller's Grim Tarock (Ian Miller & Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay), - Mausolea: Oracle of Souls (Jason Engle & Magic: the Gathering, Legend of the Five Rings), - Curse of Stradh Tarokka (a D&D accessory, that works well as an archetypical role deck with shadow aspects), - My Everway Oracle (built from Vision Cards of the Everway RPG, art includes Amy Webber, ... it includes also more than usual diversity), - Olde Fae (Heather Hudson & old school M:tG; The work of the Changeling Collective. Still not too to sure how this Faerie deck is going to work - but it's all about how binaries/polarities work and don't work at the same time. So this adresses a very important issue.) ... the Shadowscape (Stephanie Law & Blue Rose RPG) ... would fit here.

Your guidebook is so big, woow! Czech edition has only small guidebook as big as cards. The information seems the same (you did one tarot by the book with this tarot and when I saw the guidebook I took out mine to compare when you were reading from the guidebook and it was the same), but you have bigger pictures, even just in black and white! I heard Anya Esma on RU-vid saying the czech edition has a bit bigger cards (I don't know, they have 7,6 cm x 12,6 cm (including small border, and yes I just went to measure it just because of this comment :D), is it bigger?), but anyway artwork really is so detailed that it could be much bigger to see it properly. This is one of the decks I bought more recently - I think two years ago - though still before I watched walkthroughs on YT, I just saw the picture (even just part of the original picture actually) on the box and thought - I must have this one. I was going around it for half a year or maybe a year, before I finally bought it year (and something) ago. When I got it and finally could look at all the cards I was amazed and enchanted (and still am) by the artwork and tried to start to work with it (actually it was when I got more back to tarot after some time when I wasn't working with it very much (or at all)), I did some spread but mostly daily draws, but it somehow wasn't quite right so I put it aside after some time. I think the biggest problem was that when looking at the artwork at first (even only the piece on the box), I've thought - these are so beautiful, they're so much telling, they will be great for intuitive reading and maybe I won't need to reach for the guidebook so often, but when I was actually trying to read with them, it didn't work this way and - with two or three exceptions - when I pulled the card and looked at it, I saw there's lots going on and it could tell a story but it seemed so foreign country to me that I was slowly discouraged to use them. I don't know if that makes sense, but sort of like... there is so much going on with so much details that even if I could think of some meaning according to the particular card meaning, I was wondering what this or that detail means and why is there that symbol and is it even a symbol for something? Not just this but part of the problem I think. (does it make sense?). So I wasn't quite working with it since then. But I think it might be time that I try to work with them again. (funny thing - I took them out to measure the size as I mentioned above and now I was just flipping through them and Death card came up and I immediately noticed that there is actually a woman figure like "inside" the big phoenix and I never noticed that before and it quite shocked me, like - I could swear it wasn't there year ago! :D ) (sp I guess yes, I could try to work with them again now :) ). (another funny thing is when I was watching this video it seemed to me as I've never seen some of the cards before at all. Remember that particularly Moon card surprised me the most and I was like - that's not how the Moon card looks like in this deck? And had to find it in my own deck.)) (I never tried to use tarot cards together with oracle cards like you do though. Well I don't even have that much oracle decks to choose from :D)

I love this deck i have the 2010 edition in spanish . I would love to release the borderless version💕✨

Kelly at Truth in Story used to say there was an app and you could zoom in on the images. Thought it be something you’d like.

I'm glad I live in one of those countries where it was published in a better format (thought it's OOP at the moment unfortunately), I love this deck ♥

I just bought this deck recently and am starting to work with it. After seeing it trimmed I'm kinda inclined to do it but am not sure if I should. Since I have sweaty hands (just a natural condition, but little sweat) does the clear glitter pen make it a little better for colour not to wear off? Loved this video btw!

I've always struggled to connect to this deck despite how much I love the art. I might watch this again with deck in hand to see what happens and maybe spend a while working with this deck. Except it'll be a while, I'm moving and won't see most of my stuff for a good month+. 🥲

The Shadowscapes deck is the first Tarot deck I ever got. I LOVE the artwork. But you're right, Lisa, I do hope they'll reprint the deck bcz I'm a bit sad the finer details in the cards get lost. It's still one of my favorites though. Stephanie, the artist of this deck, had actually started to work on an Oracle deck, you can see some of the artwork online (it's called Dreamdance). I'm not sure why she stopped working on it but I do hope that she'll continue with it. I want Dreamdance to happen!!

12:49 ... OK. I'm going to get the deck. The Wheel of Fortune did it. You're rememberance of the meaning of the Celtic knotwork ... combined with the flowers beneath. I wish growth, blossom and decay would be less subtle, however it's there. The faerie holding the skull, the small closed buds, ... There are also the sun, the star and the moon in the card (day, dusk, night, dawn). Sleeping and awake faeries. The inevitability of rhythm and fate. Edit: Having completed the video ... I do very much relate to pairing the deck with the Spirit of the Animals Oracle. I can also see it being used with the Olde Fae playing cards and Portals of presence. The 4 of them used in combination seem to make a lot of sense (=> Shadowscape + Animals + Fae + Tree/Nature Spirit Faces).

I know this is old but have you revisited with the bigger deck?

Lisa are there ANY inks that DON'T rub back off on hands and alter cloths ect. I've edged a couple decks in permanant black sharpie in the past andeven after leaving to dry for 30 days, the ink still rubbed off on my hands. I ended up having to replace those decks. Thanks for any advise!

I have this deck, but find the images to small and busy. It’s very beautiful though

Oh, what a great word, KERFUFFLE. You just want to say it again and again, kerfuffle kerfuffle kerfuffle...lmao... So satisfying! Thank you Lisa ! 😆

Thanks so much for sharing! I have had this deck for a while, but I haven't used it yet. Hearing you talk about each card, and seeing which oracles you paired it with helped a lot. I am really keen to start working with it now. Also, borderless looks SO much better! I need to do that. Just not sure if I should do it with my scissors or save up to buy a guillotine and trim it properly.

Those are chameleons on the pentacle cards.

I have the healers of the earth and have used it for a week and can't pair it so put it away for months, I love it but it's just out there on its own 🤣 I've just ordered the shadowscapes... If anyone has a pairing for it let me know x

It’s a gorgeous deck but it’s to small. It need to be oracle size to be appreciated, I have to use a magnifying glass to get all the details.

Great! Thank you 👏👏👏

This deck is so beautiful but so hard for me to see.

Are these dandelions below the wheel? I think that might be a hint, because the dandelion seeds never know where they're going to land, it's out of their control. And at the same time, they bloom into new flowers, and the life cycle goes on.

It is beautiful but not for me. Too many tiny things for my poor eyesight even with my glasses