Directory of tarot decks.
A list of a few tarot decks from my coliection with some descriptive information. I have included two images from each deck - the Fool and the Tower. The Fool because for the artist creating the deck it often seems to define the style of their artwork. I chose the Tower because it is quite a fixed image that is not easy to extend or symbolically reshape and thus to my mind tests the creative imagination of the artist. It will take quite some time to complete this listing as there are over 1200 decks to describe !
The directory is now divided into three pages as it is getting too long.
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 | Labyrinth Tarot Artist: Luis Royo Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are pips. Height: 110mm. Width: 60mm. Date: 2005. Publisher: Fournier. Country: Spain Oil paintings. The pictures for the major arcana are imaginative and yet entirely traditional. There is an overall gothic style to the artwork, and though brooding and gloomy it does not have a sense of menace and angst. In his Labyrinth Tarot Royo touches on this dark gothic world with the delicacy of a sensitive, and aesthetic creativity. He delights in the beauty of the gothic style. |
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 | Laura Damus Artist: Designer: 22 cards Major arcana only Height: 127mm. Width: 75mm. Standard Date: . Publisher: . Country: France Computer graphics program. Abstract forms created in older style of computer graphics drawing program. The conventional images in Tarot de Marseilles order, are reduced to abstractions. |
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 | Tarot Lenormand Artist: Ernest Fitzpatrick Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 120mm. Width: 66mm. Standard Date: 2006. Publisher: Lo Scarabeo. Editor: Pietro Alligo. Country: Italy Detailed pen drawings in brown ink, coloured with watercolour. Soft delightful coloured drawings, based on the 'Madame Lenormand Fortune Telling Cards', but here recreated within a tarot context. |
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 | Lepidopteran People Tarot Artist: Lynyrd Narciso Designer: 22 cards Major arcana only Height: 128mm. Width: 66mm. Standard Date: 2005. Publisher: Paraluman. Country: Philippines Acrylics. |
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 | Londa Tarot Artist: Londa Marks Designer: 79 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 120mm. Width: 70mm. Standard Date: 1993. Publisher: U.S. Games Systems. Country: USA Oil paintings. All the figures in this tarot are stylized as thin androgynous Goths, and the imagery is based firmly on the Rider-Waite, having emblematic pip cards obviously derived from that classic deck. |
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 | Manga Tarot Artist: Anna Lazzarini Designer: Pietro Alligo 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 120mm. Width: 66mm. Standard Date: 2006. Publisher: Lo Scarabeo. Editor: Pietro Alligo. Country: Italy Drawings coloured with watercolour or acrylic. Japanese manga (fantasy comic book) art began to be used in tarot in the 1990's. Lo Scarabeo here presents a highly polished tarot in manga style. |
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 | Marilyn Manson Tarot Artist: Designer: Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) 10 cards Major arcana only Height: 105mm. Width: 64mm. Standard Date: 2000. Publisher: . Country: USA Computer modified photo collage. This partial deck of ten cards, which began to be issued with Marilyn Manson’s CD’s beginning with his ‘Holy Wood’ album of 2000, is a dark, gothic tarot. It is a rather well constructed photo collage deck. As one would expect from a rock music star, Manson’s face appears on most of the cards. He is the Fool, Magician, High Priestess, Emperor, Hierophant, Hermit, Justice, Death, the Hanged Man and no doubt he also lurks behind the ram’s head mask of the Devil. |
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 | Tarot Médiéval Artist: Pal Degome Designer: Nina Montangero 79 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 120mm. Width: 70mm. Standard Date: 2004. Publisher: Indigo Montangero. Country: Switzerland Pen drawings coloured with watercolour. |
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 | Medieval Cat Tarot Artist: Lawrence Tang Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 120mm. Width: 64mm. Standard Date: 2004. Publisher: U.S. Games Systems. Country: USA |
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 | MerryDay Tarot Artist: Louisa Poole Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 117mm. Width: 72mm. Standard Date: 1997. Publisher: Jackie and Rick McCabe. Country: USA Watercolour paintings with outlines heightened with pen. This deck is based on the Rider-Waite deck but shifted into a pagan mindset. Some of the Major Arcana have been renamed to reflect its pagan orientation. This deck presents a wonderfully romanticed view of an all-inclusive paganism. The Minor arcana hold close to the Rider-Waite emblematic forms, but in a pagan context. |
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 | Tarocchino Bolognese di G.M. Mitelli Artist: G.M. Mitelli Designer: nonstandard - Limited edition of 150 Height: 127mm. Width: 65mm. Standard Date: 1986. Publisher: Edizioni del Solleone. Country: Italy |
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 | Morgan Greer Tarot Artist: William Greer Designer: Lloyd Morgan 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 120mm. Width: 71mm. Standard Date: 1979. Publisher: Morgan Press. Country: USA Finely detailed pen drawings coloured with watercolour. One of the first tarots to print the image without a border. This is essentially a reworking of the Rider-Waite imagery in 1970's terms. |
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 | Tarot Mystique Artist: Alexandre Mourouzi Designer: 22 cards Major arcana only Limited edition of 2000 Height: 128mm. Width: 78mm. Standard Date: 1983. Publisher: Samjac S.A. AGM Mueller. Country: Switzerland Oil paintings. |
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 | Namur Tarot Artist: Martha Leyros Designer: Professor Namur 22 cards Major arcana only Height: 124mm. Width: 82mm. Standard Date: 2000. Publisher: Academia de Cultura Arcana. Country: Brasil Ink drawings with coloured pencil. |
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 | Tarocchi Napoletani Artist: Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are pips. Height: 106mm. Width: 64mm. Standard Date: 2005 ?. Publisher: Muoio Carte. Country: Italy Pen drawings coloured using graphics software. Rider Waite style Majors with a Italian style pip Minors. |
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 | Necromantic Tarot Artist: Leilah Wendell with additional works by George Higham Designer: 22 cards Major arcana only Limited edition of 1000 Height: 90mm. Width: 50mm. Miniature Date: 1994. Publisher: Westgate Press. Country: USA Paintings and photo collage. The Necromantic Tarot was issued to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the business venture Westgate Press that Wendell had set up in 1979 to market her books, artwork and prints. She incorporates various elements into her paintings - beings of darkness and beings of light, skeletal figures, lightning strikes, graves and cosmic spaces. Some of the artwork for this deck is photo collage. |
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 | New Palladini Artist: David Palladini Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 117mm. Width: 76mm. Standard Date: 1996. Publisher: U.S. Games Systems. Country: USA Oil or acrylic paintings. David Palladini here reworks his 1970 Aquarian Tarot in a similar art deco style, but here the figures are not so flatly represented, but are beautifully modelled with intense and dramatic colours. |
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 | Nimue Tarot Artist: Vivien J. Stewart-Jones Designer: 79 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 117mm. Width: 72mm. Standard Date: 2002. Publisher: Self published. Country: UK Pencil drawings scanned into a computer and then coloured using a graphics program. This deck was created by Vivien Stewart-Jones who uses the pseudonym 'Nimue'. It does not appear to have any direct conection to Celticism. A few card images follow closely the standard Rider-Waite symbolism, but most of the cards are entirely freshly created in a charming and coherent style. |
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 | Oracle Tarot Artist: Melinda Pearson Designer: Lucy Cavendish 62 cards Major arcana only nonstandard - Height: 126mm. Width: 88mm. Standard Date: 2003. Publisher: Hay House. Country: USA Oil paintings (or acrylic with medium). Non-standard tarot, with 22 Majors (some renamed), and 40 pip cards (standard 10 each suit), but without the court cards. Each card bears keywords for readings. The artist has provided wonderfully expressive paintings as the basis for this deck. |
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 | Paragon-Reiss Tarot Artist: Uncredited Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 118mm. Width: 69mm. Standard Date: 1983. Publisher: Paragon-Reiss Inc. Country: USA Redrawn versions of Rider-Waite deck, but with altered and ideosyncratic colouring. Line drawings with watercolour. |
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 | Parrott Tarot Artist: Margaret Parrott Designer: Thom Parrott 82 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are pips. Height: 108mm. Width: 70mm. Standard Date: 1995. Publisher: S.S. Adams Co. Country: USA Soft watercolour paintings probably on pencil drawings, with some lines stengthened probably using a pen. Although seeming naive and childlike, the artwork for this deck is full of complex emblematic symbolism and magical correspondences. The pip cards though not using emblems such as in the Rider-Waite, are nevertheless each given a distinctive form. The Mentor card of each suit, is inserted between the Prince and the Queen. The Major arcana are uniquely associated with a small cluster of notes of the musical scale. |
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 | Tarot de Patrick Jeau Artist: Patrick Jeau and Sklaerenn Imbeaud Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 112mm. Width: 59mm. Standard Date: 2003. Publisher: Heron. Country: France Watercoloured drawings. |
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 | The POMO tarot - a Postmodern deck Artist: Brian Williams Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 151mm. Width: 95mm. Standard Date: 1994. Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco. Country: USA Fine line pen drawings coloured with watercolour. |
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 | La Regina del Sole Artist: Designer: 22 cards Major arcana only Height: 111mm. Width: 60mm. Standard Date: . Publisher: . Country: Italy Promotional deck seemingly given away by an Italian telephone tarot reading service. A fresh and colourful reworking of the Tarot of Marseilles designs. |
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 | Robin Wood Tarot Artist: Robin Wood Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 117mm. Width: 70mm. Standard Date: 1991. Publisher: Llewellyn. Country: USA Pen drawn outlines coloured with coloured pencils. Well-crafted clone of Rider-Waite shifted into a more 'pagan' or 'New Age' style. |
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 | Ronitarot Artist: Ronit Hartmann Designer: 22 cards Major arcana only Height: 120mm. Width: 80mm. Standard Date: 2006. Publisher: Arun-Verlag. Country: Germany Pen drawings with watercolour and some photocollage. The Ronitaro by the artist Ronit Hartmann is exquisitely romantic in style. The main figures in the artwork are finely drawn in pencil, then the artist creates a web of coloured forms with some small amount of photocollage. This is a very engaging and well crafted art tarot. |
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 | Royal Tarot Artist: Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are pips. Height: 129mm. Width: 74mm. Standard Date: 1995. Publisher: Kuo Kau Paper ProductsCo. Ltd. Country: Taiwan Thick pen outlines coloured with water based pigments. Sensitively coloured popular deck. The artwork is not challenging, but is an easy deck for beginners. |
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 | Samantha's Tarot Artist: Samantha Kocsis Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 71mm. Width: 53mm. Miniature Date: 2005. Publisher: Dolphin Daze. Country: USA Ink, watercolour and acrylics. |
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 | El Tarot de la Y - Tarot of the Pilgrimage of Santiago Artist: Juan Martinez Casasus Designer: 22 cards Major arcana only Height: 120mm. Width: 74mm. Standard Date: 2004. Publisher: Aleu, s.a.. Country: Spain Drawings coloured with watercolour. |
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 | Tarot of Saqqara Artist: Donald G. Beaman Designer: cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: mm. Width: mm. Date: 1985. Publisher: . Country: USA Pen drawings. Detailed line drawn Egyptian style tarot - Saqqara is a temple complex in Egypt. Originally designed in 1985 but in 2006 issued on a CD-Rom, with the Minor arcana also provided as a coloured version. |
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 | Savage Tarot Artist: MichelleX Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Limited edition of 100 Height: 121mm. Width: 87mm. Standard Date: 2005. Publisher: Self published. Country: USA Computer generated photo-collage. Among the darkest conceptions of tarot to date. |
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 | Sedona Vortex Tarot Artist: Bryan Richards Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 152mm. Width: 101mm. Large Date: 1996. Publisher: Sedona Vortex. Country: USA Collage. Photographic backgrounds with cartoon figures making up the foreground imagery. |
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 | El tarot de Sirio Artist: Marcela Garcia Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are pips. Height: 119mm. Width: 70mm. Standard Date: 2001. Publisher: Editorial Sirio S.A.. Country: Spain Acrylics. |
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 | Solleone Tarot Artist: Elisabetta Cassari Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 149mm. Width: 83mm. Date: 1983. Publisher: U.S. Games Systems. Editor: Vito Arienti. Country: USA Fine pen drawings coloured with tempera and watercolour. Cassari brings a beautiful and original conception to the tarot images. In places her designs depict violence and we are shown many scenes of people cynically exploiting one another, but this hardness of tone melts in the wonderfully flowing line and colour of the artwork. Cassari's emblematic designs for the pip cards are primarily original rather than being reworkings of the familar Rider-Waite images. |
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 | Tarot of the Southwest Sacred Tribes Artist: Violeta Monreal Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 117mm. Width: 70mm. Standard Date: 1996. Publisher: U.S. Games Systems. Country: USA Drawings with watercolour. |
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 | Spiritual Tarot Artist: Marie-Claire Wilson Designer: 22 cards Major arcana only Height: 120mm. Width: 75mm. Standard Date: 1996. Publisher: Self published. Country: USA Line drawings coloured with watercolour or coloured inks. |
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 | Spiro Tarot Artist: Gail Kettleson Designer: Gail Kettleson 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are pips. Limited edition of 100 Height: 116mm. Width: 67mm. Standard Date: 2006. Publisher: Self published. Country: USA Computer generated abstract forms. This tarot has abstract shapes created using a computer software program called SpiroRama, which is an implementation of the ever popular spirograph. The forms created are primarily circular or elliptical, rather than linear. |
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 | Star that never walks around - Native American Tarot Artist: Stella Bennett Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 101mm. Width: 101mm. Round Standard Date: 2002. Publisher: Weiser. Country: USA Coloured pencil. |
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 | Stone Tarot Artist: Alison Stone Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are pips. Height: 126mm. Width: 82mm. Standard Date: 2000. Publisher: Self-published. Country: USA Oil paintings. The artwork here is in wonderful radiant colour, probably through the application of thin glazes of transparent oils on a brilliant white ground. The reds are especially luminous. The figures adopt cool expressions and usually fix us with a cold remote gaze, which gives them a otherworldly almost archetypal nature. |
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 | Tarocchi Stop Artist: Designer: 22 cards Major arcana only Height: 110mm. Width: 59mm. Standard Date: . Publisher: . Country: Italy Pencil drawings with watercolour. Simple tarot de Marseilles designs, in naive style with subtle watercolour drawings. Probably produced as a promo deck for some Italian magazine. |
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 | Tarot the Ancient Prophecy Artist: Uncredited Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 121mm. Width: 70mm. Standard Date: 1973. Publisher: Dynamic Games - Dynamic Design Industries. Country: USA Pen line drawings coloured with watercolour or coloured inks. |
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 | Transformational tarot Artist: Arnell Ando Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 120mm. Width: 68mm. Standard Date: 2005. Publisher: U.S. Games systems. Country: USA Photocollage |
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 | Tarot of Transition Artist: Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are pips. Height: 111mm. Width: 60mm. Standard Date: 1983. Publisher: U. S. Games Systems. Country: USA Pen drawings coloured with watercolours. Ideosyncratic Egyptian themed tarot by an unknown artist. The artwork is a modern recreation of Egyptian tomb wall carvings or images in papyri. |
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 | 20th Century Artist: Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 120mm. Width: 70mm. Standard Date: 1970. Publisher: Skor-Mor Corp.. Country: USA Pen drawings. |
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 | Universal Goddess Tarot Artist: Antonella Platano Designer: Maria Caratti 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 120mm. Width: 66mm. Standard Date: 2006. Publisher: Lo Scarabeo. Editor: Pietro Alligo. Country: Italy This tarot attemps to reflect the different Goddesses found throughout the many mythologies - including those in Classical, Celtic, North American Indian, Norse, Japanes, Chinese, Hindhu, Maori, and many other traditions. |
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 | Vampire Tarot Artist: Nathalie Hertz Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Height: 120mm. Width: 70mm. Date: 2002. Publisher: U.S. Games Systems. Country: USA Acrylic paintings. This deck adopts a light and gently humorous approach and presented us with thin, gaunt figures who are clearly vampires with sharp, pointed eye-teeth fangs. They all sport incredible hair styles. The backgrounds to most of the cards are dark, but style overwhelms any sense of the sinister and we have here an entirely entertaining deck. |
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 | Tarot of White Cats Artist: Severino Baraldi Designer: Pietro Alligo cards Major and Minor arcana. Minor arcana are emblematic. Minor arcana are pips. Height: 120mm. Width: 66mm. Standard Date: 2005. Publisher: Lo Scarabeo. Editor: Pietro Alligo. Country: Italy |
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 | Yeager Tarot of Meditation Artist: Marty Yeager Designer: 78 cards Major and Minor arcana. Height: 109mm. Width: 79mm. Standard Date: 1975. Publisher: U.S. Games Systems 1982. Country: USA Paintings probably in oils. |
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