‘I Cannot Live Without My Soul’- Unboxing the Gothic Literature Tarot by Sirian Shadow

[@k.prager2532]

Sirian outdid himself with this deck. I was a Pre1800 English major. Every one of those cards is an amazing piece of art. Love. Love. Love this. ❤️❤️❤️

[@peaceridge]

Sirian is the absolutely best in communication and helpfulness of any kickstarter/creater I've ever found and I've been collecting for many years. I travel a lot and coordinating receiving items with where I am or where I'm supposed to be is always difficult. He is one of the very few (maybe 3 others) that has been willing to coordinate and work with me. I understand some of the difficulties in creating and sending out decks, so I'm not knocking the others, I just wanted to give him kudos for going the extra mile.

[@weststartarot-Liz]

I would never in a million years expect to like this deck, in fact I wasn’t even going to watch the video, but oh my! It is stunning and has completely peaked my interest. Thanks for sharing…..

[@mojavedesertcrone8919]

I just received my copy a few days ago. Absolutely love it!! I could kick myself 1000 times for not backing his Horror Manor oracle deck....just didn't have the funds at the time. It's now my unicorn deck...maybe it will go mass market, or maybe Sirian will do a reprint of it. Fingers crossed. Thank you for sharing.

[@dwellinfaith0]

I was so excited to hear your review 🖤 This is easily my favorite tarot deck of 2024… Today, my favorite piece of Gothic literature is a tie between Daphne du Marier’s “Rebecca” and Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre”… tomorrow, who knows 😂

[@JanetHall-um4rc]

Oh, Raecine. Thank you so much for introducing this deck. Received my copy. I am so in love with it. I love everything shout it. Hauntingly beautiful. I always love the way you talk about the decks. So glad I have it in my collection.

[@MsNikkieMichelle]

Anything Sirian creates is masterful, haunting, honest, and hits right in the feel in every way needed. This tarot is extraordinary, I am so smitten already and am so grateful that I'm able to work together with these treasures. The empress card, steal my heart. To say that I am so excited to build a relationship with each card is an understatement. I have a sneaking suspicion that this incredible deck and I are going to have some profound readings together. I see a lot of sweater weather nights, some Cab, delicious smelling candles and a truthful, honest relationship full of discovery, growth and wisdom to be had for myself and others who work with this incredible Tarot deck. So excited 🖤 beautiful video, as always, dear.

[@brentmartin1981]

This deck is stunning, I have always been drawn to gothic ambience and castles and grand European estates that have lasted for centuries. Wuthering Heights is one of my Mom's favorite movies and it was also my paternal grandfather's favorite film. He passed away the same year that my parents met. My mom's birthday is also December 21st, the Winter Solstice which was also my paternal grandfather's favorite day. I would love to us this deck in candlelight, with a good glass of Cabernet Sauvignon and a fantastic dark novel.

[@IndigoC333]

Wow, this is a gorgeous deck! 😍 Being a huge fan of Gothic literature, this is really special.

[@IndigoC333]

Wow, this is a gorgeous deck! 😍 Being a huge fan of Gothic literature, this is really special. Really hope it becomes mass market.

[@Okay_Janice]

I got mine a few days ago (inspired by your video 😊). I can’t say enough about how much I love it. I think I found my soul deck at last! Pairing it with TOV and MM is perfection! ❤

[@TheScreamingElf]

Love the unboxing. The card pull resonates, I'm at the start of a creative project, some hurdles to jump to really get started but feeling very "right" about it. I cannot wait to get the deck, so excited! Thank you. Favorite gothic work....book would have to be anything by Poe and Wuthering Heights... but movie Bram Stoker's Dracula for sure.

[@MysticalMisty_1]

Beautiful deck! I hope you feel better soon!

[@Artemis583]

Thank you for sharing! I was able to order this today. My hope is that this deck will fill the void in my soul that Darkness of Light Tarot simply wasn't able to 🖤 😅

[@heathwitch]

Yaaaay! You got it too -- this is such an amazing and gorgeous deck. It arrived whilst I was re-reading Dorian Gray, so that was perfect timing. I adore the colours in this deck and can't wait to get to know it better. I'm considering starting a year and a day journey with this deck at Samhain... 🖤 I read English at university so it's a fabulous deck for me. My favourite gothic literature novel changes with the breeze, so right now it's Jane Eyre but later on tonight it could be something different again!

[@janharris4885]

Just purchased my copy Luv it!!!! thank you Racine X wishing you & Vincent a speedy recovery 🩷

[@LyubomiraGerova97]

Wuthering Heights is my favorite

[@mysticfox1105]

At about 10:15 into the video, we both went “hmm” the same exact way, at the same time 😆. It’s happened before with one of your videos where I said “beautiful” softly, then you said it right after me 🤪. Love when that happens, hehe 🤭

[@TheGritherr]

Hey dear feel better! You give so much, take care of you!

[@loreleisherman8663]

I got mine in too. I adore it.

[@CherrySprinkles]

this was an instant-backed kickstarter for me, it's such a lovely deck and I love shuffling it! I have only done a few pulls from it so far but I adore Sirian too 🖤

[@MissMoonlight-bh7oq]

I do tarot music bonding shorts and this deck already has the song "If only tonight we could sleep" from the Cure in my head every time I think of it. Can't wait to get mine. 🖤 Wuthering Heights for me 💯! :)

[@M155ABYSS]

Beautiful deck! Love Mary Reilly as well. Jane Eyre is my favorite. Her self respect is so affirming for me. You might like Poldark.

[@Steffi_Kiyoshi]

Mine came 2 weeks ago, was waiting for your unboxing! Also the guidebook is done so well 🖤 I think Sirian has some left on his Etsy shop and that will be the last. I have 2 favourite works, the Phantom and of course Dracula. I'm in love with how they are depicted in the deck! (I even have a Phantom tattoo 😅)

[@rachelmaher8406]

I love the art work. I also like darker decks and gothic horror. I LOVED Dracula. I think he is sexy. Yeah I am weird. But don’t care. 😂😂

[@nicolekuhn5139]

I love the deck so much and I can’t take my hands off it since I received it. I am currently reading „The Monk“ by Matthew Lewis and was thrilled to find Father Ambrosio as the Hierophant 🖤

[@tamipie]

I love Dracula (the book and the films), but my favorite is Dorian Gray! 💀

[@restingwitchfacetarot605]

I feel like the 3 of ravens here is the creation kind of…. REALIZING what he has done after unaliving the girl after not understanding it would hurt her…. and gaining that UNDERSTANDING of his actions. Because the 3 of swords is all about those intellectual realizations where your world falls apart, that understanding that even in his second life, his second chance, even in unlife, he is to be an agent of pain and death.

[@nicolekuhn5139]

I was actually pondering if the person in the Three of Ravens is the same as in the Ten.

[@NovaMoonUK]

Ordered my copy from Etsy, and can't wait for it to arrive. Thanks Raecine - and you look just the part for the deck 🖤

[@stacies89]

Guuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrllllllllll…. You got me again (#FOMO) 😆 But in all sincerity, my Haunted Manor Oracle has been pretty lonely (Todd Alcott’s Horror Tarot hasn’t made for the most ideal pairing, lol) and it’ll be nice to see two of SS’s children together on my bookshelf and in my readings 💞😉 Now my Horror Tarot needs a companion! 🤷🏻‍♀️😩😭🙃🫠

[@Trazazz]

I cannot wait to hear your thoughts on this deck. You have such a beautiful way of breaking down decks and describing them in the most delicious way. I’ll be back to catch it. Just had to leave a comment on your video that’s not even here yet ❤

[@peaches3327]

I get the Dracula characters & Dorian Grey, but where do the others come from?

[@UntaintedIndigoChild]

I can’t live without my soul either…

[@thradruna]

I wonder if you have the Bohemian Gothic tarot and how those two feel in comparison to each other? Maybe someone else who’s reading this and owns both can speak to that as well :) as for favourite gothic novels, Wuthering Heights for sure, and Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin.

[@owlmoon513]

@@thradruna I gifted the bohemian gothic some time ago. It didn’t work well with my energy. ❤️

[@thradruna]

@@owlmoon513 thank you for replying ❤️

[@ZenShawoom]

Very cool deck. 😄

[@ShireBookWitch]

My deck just arrived, I bought it after watching this review, and WOW, it's even more beautiful and resonant in person. So grateful you shared this unboxing, I can't wait to work with this deck ♥

[@tanyapizzolattoshimmerngtarot]

Thank you for this review. I am waiting on mine. I'm even more excited about it after watching this review.

[@TheScreamingElf]

I'm so excited to hear what you have to say about this deck. Mine is on the way. I think this may be my ride or die deck, the moment I saw it, hit me like a ton of bricks.

[@dariaa190]

Do you know if he's thinking about a 2nd edition of The Haunted Manor Oracle?

[@ForestShadowWitch]

He posted about this on Instagram. He said he only does one run of his decks and then he shops them to publishers. He said he doesn't want to say what is possibly being published mass market because it takes several years to come to market and things can fall through. I am crossing my fingers that Haunted Manor gets a mass market publisher. I've been kicking myself that I didn't pick it up.

[@dariaa190]

@@ForestShadowWitch oh, thank you very much for your reply. I didn't realize, he just does one. My fault. Right, I was hesitant first, but now ... Well, let's hope for it, him, and us 😉

[@mgrace3641]

We need deets on that cute dress! Link??

[@owlmoon513]

@@mgrace3641 it’s lovely ghosts the farmer’s daughter dress ❤️

[@seekingvision]

So happy to hear your initial thoughts on this deck. I’m so in love with my copy & Ive only been using it for a week. It feels like a long lost friend has come home probably because of the links to my favourite books of all time plus my love for TOV & all things Goth 🖤 adore your make up look for this unboxing, just perfect ♥️ I’m making a list of films to rewatch too, inspired by the cards as they reveal themselves to me in daily draws. I think the deck is going to be my deliciously dark cosy companion through this dark part of the year in the U.K.

[@Addielp]

Nude nails? Very different but somehow you make everything look so aesthetically goth!🖤😍 And this decks has me shaking queen!!😳

[@PamelaGrace814]

I was so excited this deck was available this morning I was able to order one. Can’t wait for it arrival. I missed out on The Haunted Manor Tarot and will forever be heartbroken 💔

[@DetailHunter]

Don't worry it is AI generated 😂

[@scarletjasper9800]

I Like that your aesthetic makeup dress and lighting the half sunlit half shadow on your face reflects the deck exactly🌘🖤

[@patricialavallee8286]

Hi Raecine! I have to say this deck out of all the decks you recently reviewed is THE one for me! The art work is just gorgeous, and i agree, the artist did a phenomenal job with this deck! Thank you for addressing if or if not it will be massed produced. I DO hope so!!! If you do get a chance to speak to the author again, please pass along my request, as well as my joy in seeing this stunning deck! Please do a full review once you have used this deck! Ive viewed your last two videos and loved those little cottage/animal/woodsy decks, also! Do you know if they will be massed produced? Love to see a full review too! I saw the Poe tarot!!!!!! Are you using this deck currently? Im definitely going to start using mine again soon. To me its a truthful, kind of sorrowful sweet deck. Upcoming review? Fingers crossed!!! Thanks for all you do! Much appreciated! All the best! Love jane eyre and wuthering heights! I personally would love to see a Dickens deck. I have the tarot of jane austen , from years ago, and guidebook. Fantastic! PS love works of Jane Austen, too!

[@LuckyFairy19]

This is an interesting deck

[@ReadyTooSnap-zf5wo]

😍 sorry if this doesnt go here but i wanna recommend a song Deus Ex Lumina - Black lipstick 🖤 thanks for the review also love the Goth Art

[@DetailHunter]

I think it is AI mixed with real watercolor layers. No problem with AI, just please be so kind, dear author, and admit it! The same with Haunted Manor oracle. It is pure AI. Why does the author hide it? There is nothing wrong with AI, just it is not nice not to say that... And very interesting, why he is not pousting nothing about these 2 projects on his Instagram. Weird 🤷‍♀️

[@garycollingwood4002]

🌛🦉🌜 fifty seven year old virgin listening and watching 🌛🦉🌜

[@ChocolateMuffin308]

Just found out that Sirian Shadow decks are AI-generated. What sometimes takes real artists years to create, this dude does with a click of a button, using technology that steals ideas and style from those artists. He releases decks every year and they get sold out. But what's worse is that he doesn't even disclose it anywhere. At least I couldn't find this information neither on the packaging I saw online, nor on the website. Judging by his Kickstarter's comment section, people realize the deck is made by AI only when seeing all the flaws in person. This is so scammy. Will save my hard-earned money for the artists that deserve it.

[@kstardust3353]

Where is your proof that this is true? He was really strongly denying it during the campaign. He said the images were digitally edited through photoshop or on an iPad in that drawing app - the name escapes me right now.

[@nekozhead4441]

@@kstardust3353procreate

[@ChocolateMuffin308]

@@kstardust3353 with the Haunter Manor, for example, he doesn't deny it when asked about it. As for this latest deck - I'll look into it, thank you! Are you sure he didn't say that it was generated and then additionally edited?

[@seekingvision]

@@ChocolateMuffin308definitely an artist involved in this Gothic Tarot deck. Not sure about the other decks though

[@owlmoon513]

@@ChocolateMuffin308 this is not AI. As I state in the video the artist is credited and he has addressed this rumor in the past.

[@mistressoasisgirl]

For myself it’s Dorian Gray and Dracula I love Jane Eyre also and Wuthering Heights, but the other two are just perfect in my opinion