Indie tarot decks

Ritual Tarot Deluxe Edition Tiera May builds every card image by hand, cutting and assembling figures, animals, landscapes and sacred objects into new compositions. This 81-card deck includes three extra Major Arcana, and none of the cards carry a title on either side. The images stand on their own. Language: English Quality: Matte cards with a matte gold gilt edge, 320 gsm board with black core, black fabric bag Contents: 81 cards and a 179-page hardcover guidebook The deluxe slipcase box is matte black with a white-printed circular ornament and gothic lettering.

Sarah Nalind Tarot Deck A 78-card tarot deck with photographs instead of drawings, made by Sarah Nalind, psychologist, medium and tarot reader. Use it to reflect on your own life through symbols and intuition, for a daily card or a longer spread. Language: English Quality: Light pink box with silver foil, rose-gold satin pouch Contents: 78 cards The backs of the cards show the ‘SN’ monogram in a wreath of flowers on a light blue background.

Rose Season Tarot Tara Cochrane built every card by hand as a physical collage – layers of paper, texture, and detail visible in the print. The deck is structured around the seasons: almost every card is tied to a specific time of year, which changes how you read it. Language: English Quality: Larger than standard cards, sturdy magnetic closure box in soft off-white green Contents: 81 cards and a 228-page guidebook The first edition is limited to 1,000 copies.

Yukika Tarot Stasia Burrington painted all 80 cards by hand in watercolor over two years. Built on the Rider-Waite-Smith structure, the imagery centers on bodies, presence, and the immediate moment rather than distant symbolism. A pink-blue holographic foil on the card edges shifts with the light and sits naturally alongside the soft palette. Language: English Quality: 350 gsm matte card stock, pink-blue holographic foil edges, sturdy lidded box Contents: 80 cards and a 100-page guidebook This is the 2nd edition of the deck Burrington originally released through Kickstarter.

Emblemata Oracle Companion Guidebook This guidebook accompanies the 60-card Emblemata Oracle deck and is rooted in the woodcut emblems of sixteenth-century French artist Claude Paradin. Nitasia Roland of Urania Press wrote the divinatory interpretations, working from Paradin’s original Latin and French mottos. The woodcut images were digitally restored and colorized from museum archive files. Language: English Contents: Guidebook to the 60-card Emblemata Oracle deck A grounded reference that brings five centuries of emblematic tradition into contemporary oracular practice.

Sublime Thresholds Tarot Softcover Companion Guidebook Written by Nitasia Roland, this guidebook pairs each card in the Sublime Thresholds Tarot deck with a full-page intuitive, poetic interpretation and a ‘Sublime Code’ drawn from her MFA thesis on the endurance of the philosophical concept of the sublime. Greek words tied to each card’s archetype and historical notes on the art movements behind the paintings round out the interpretations. Language: English Quality: Softcover, matte color cover, black and white interior Contents: Guidebook for an 88-card deck (78 tarot cards plus 10 oracle cards) The deck is sold separately; this is the written companion guidebook only.

Sublime Thresholds Oracle Softcover Companion Guidebook Written by Nitasia Roland, this softcover guidebook accompanies a separately sold 78-card oracle deck combining gods and goddesses from Greek, Egyptian, Celtic, Norse, and Mesopotamian traditions with cards focused on magic and mysticism. The interpretations are poetic and animist in tone, grounded in the philosophical history of the Sublime dating back to the 1st century AD. Language: English Quality: Matte colour cover, black-and-white interior, softcover Contents: Guidebook for 78-card oracle deck (deck sold separately)

Mermaid Tarot Dame Darcy drew and painted all 78 cards by hand, in a neo-Victorian style filled with sea creatures, shipwrecks, and nautical folklore. The pastel colours and faded vintage tones recall hand-drawn posters from the 1960s, while the imagery follows the classic Rider-Waite structure throughout. The card edges are finished with a high-gloss gold foil – reflective, not matte. Language: English (no guidebook included) Quality: Fully hand-drawn artwork, gold foil edges, rigid box Contents: 78 cards, no guidebook The plain white box gives almost nothing away about what is inside.

My Friend Fire My Friend Fire is an oracle deck by Mariza Ryce Aparicio-Tovar (Mari in the Sky), the creator behind The Gentle Tarot. Sixty hand-drawn cards are organized into five themes: listening, nourishment, growth, reflection, and change, each recognizable by its own colored border. The deck comes with a full-color guidebook and a twelve-card layout expansion pack. Language: English Quality: Matte gold gilded edges, compact size (68 x 104 mm) Contents: 60 oracle cards + 12 expansion cards, full-color guidebook The card titles are clear enough to work intuitively right away, even without consulting the guidebook.

Soul Splash Tarot Soul Splash Tarot blends comic-book art with a dark, dream-driven colour palette that sits somewhere between wonder and dread. Every card reads as its own scene, vivid and strange. Beyond the standard 78 cards, the deck includes a replacement Death card and three bonus cards. Language: English Quality: 330 gsm black core card stock, air-cushion finish, fluorescent ink on packaging Contents: 82 cards + 3 bonus cards + English guidebook The box is a rigid lid-and-base construction with sleeve, also printed on black core paper with fluorescent ink.

Broken Mirror Tarot Mercury Special Edition Every card in this deck is designed to look like an image seen through a broken piece of mercury mirror, one of the earliest types of fine mirrors in the history of glassmaking. Lines and patterns divide each card surface into fragments, creating a mosaic-like, vintage quality throughout. The cards follow the Rider-Waite-Smith system and include 78 standard tarot cards, two alternative versions of existing cards, and one special extra card. Language: English Quality: 310 gsm Japanese black core cardstock, air-cushion matte finish Contents: 81 cards (78 standard + 2 alternatives + 1 special card) At 70 x 120 mm, the cards sit comfortably in the hand and shuffle smoothly.

Song of the Grandmother Oracle This oracle is built around the concept of grandmother energy: emotional maturity, compassion, and a grounded wisdom that transcends age or gender. Kara Simons of Joyful Resonance designed 66 cards divided into six color-coded categories, ranging from Self-Love and Harmony to Destruction. Illustrator Amy Putney Peterson created the artwork, which draws on botanical, elemental, and animal imagery. Language: English Quality: Plain card edges, sturdy two-piece box Contents: 66 cards + 6 blank cards + category overview card + double-sided spread card + 174-page guidebook The six categories are color-coded, making it easy to see which realm a card belongs to even without the guidebook.

Emblemata Oracle This oracle is built on woodcut images from 16th-century emblem books, assembled and designed by Nitasia Roland of Urania Press. Each card combines a historical engraving, a Latin or French motto, and a contemporary oracle title that translates the emblem’s core message for the modern reader. The imagery is layered, the symbolism is historically rooted, and meaning does not surface without attention. Language: English Contents: 60 oracle cards and guidebook The black-and-white engravings carry the atmosphere of a manuscript room, not a modern spiritual boutique.

Seraphim Tarot Collector’s Edition This deck moves away from the soft, gentle angel imagery common in new-age traditions. The Seraphim are depicted here as powerful guardians of light and transformation, rendered in clean lines, generous white space and golden geometric circles. The accompanying guidebook doubles as a reflection journal, with focused writing prompts and space for personal notes at every card. Language: English Quality: 350 g/m² linen-finish card stock, matte finish, silver foil edges, luxury gatefold box with embossed detail Contents: 78 cards and a guidebook with reflection journal The box opens from the centre like double doors, with tactile wings and geometric circles embossed on the exterior.

She’s Wilderness Tarot This indie tarot reimagines the classic Rider-Waite Smith system through the lens of feminine strength: every archetype is portrayed by women from diverse backgrounds, drawn in a soft, dreamlike style with touches of anime and mythology. The deck was designed by YOU & Raven of X-Cat Studio in collaboration with Vermilion Collection, launched via Kickstarter in spring 2025, and followed quickly by a second print run. Language: English Quality: Matte soft-touch finish, red sprayed edges, gold foil details, sturdy magnetic closure box Contents: 79 cards (78 standard + 1 bonus card) The Deluxe 2.0 edition is borderless, letting the illustrations fill the full card face.

The Soul’s Haven Tarot The Soul’s Haven Tarot pairs delicate, youthful imagery with themes of identity loss, family trauma and emotional recovery. Designer JuJu built it on the Rider-Waite-Smith system and illustrated the Minor Arcana as continuous panoramic scenes: lay all cards of one suit in sequence and they form a single unfolding landscape. The cards are printed on 330 gsm black core stock with an air-cushion finish and gilded edges. Language: English Quality: 330 gsm black core, air-cushion finish, gilded edges, rigid two-part box Contents: 78 tarot cards plus 1 bonus card, English guidebook included Entirely hand-drawn by JuJu, with no AI generation involved.

The Isness Tarot Guidebook The Isness Tarot deck is built around abstract ink blot illustrations, and this guidebook is what makes those images readable. Amadea H. Ris, who created the deck, covers all 83 cards in depth: psychological themes, shadow aspects and philosophical reflections. The guidebook works equally for the Original Colour Edition and the Black & Gold Edition. Language: English Quality: Matte cover (300 gsm), interior printed on 130 gsm matte paper Contents: 336 pages, paperback Readers describe it as a study companion you sit with slowly, not a quick reference you flip through.

The Isness Tarot (Black Edition) The Isness Tarot (Black Edition) by Amadea H. Ris uses an ink-blot technique to create images that have no fixed figures or classic tarot scenes. The cards work through your own projections rather than telling you what a situation looks like. Reduced to black, white and gold foil accents, this edition is sharper in contrast than the original colour version and more demanding in how it asks to be read. Language: English Quality: 295 gsm card stock, velvet-soft matte finish, gold foil details on the back Contents: 83 cards + extended English guidebook The absence of colour pushes interpretation entirely into your own hands, which is exactly what this deck is designed to do.

The Isness Tarot – Original Color Edition Amadea H. Ris developed this deck over ten years using klecksography, a technique where forms emerge organically and are then read and interpreted rather than deliberately drawn. The result is 83 cards where symbolic meaning is opened up, not pinned down. The 336-page guidebook, which expands on the archetypal and intuitive layers of each card, is sold separately and is not included with this deck. Language: English Quality: 295 gsm card stock, matte finish, gold foil on the reverse, velvet pouch included Contents: 83 cards (78 traditional + 5 original cards), guidebook sold separately This is not a deck for quick answers, but for those willing to sit with an image until something surfaces.

The Baddeley Tarot Jake Baddeley is an internationally recognised painter whose work draws heavily on the techniques of the Old Masters. He painted all 78 cards by hand, building on Hermeticism, Neoplatonism and the Eleusinian Mysteries. The 368-page guidebook works out the historical and philosophical background of each card in full. Language: English Quality: Luxury edition with gold foil details, 130 x 185 mm Contents: 78 cards and 368-page guidebook This is not a beginner deck: the imagery is layered and the guidebook reads more like a scholarly text on Western esoteric philosophy than a quick reference.

Visionary Woman Tarot Kristine Gorman painted all 78 cards in oil and wrote the guidebook herself. For over eight years she read tarot live on her own FM radio show, and that grounded, no-nonsense approach runs through every card. The deck follows the classic Rider-Waite-Smith structure but makes deliberate departures, most notably a painted portrait of tarot pioneer Rachel Pollack as The World card. Language: English Quality: Oil painting reproductions, full-colour 160-page guidebook Contents: 78 cards and guidebook The Devil appears here as the King of Doubt, which tells you a great deal about how Gorman reads tarot.

Bird Vibes Meditation Cards Catherine C. Bastedo links fifty North American bird species to the eight chakras of the body, grouped by colour, habitat, or other characteristics. The cards are designed for meditation, for learning about birds, and for seeking spiritual guidance. Four seasonal cards round out the deck. Language: English Quality: 54 full-colour cards with a 152-page full-colour guidebook Contents: 54 cards + 152-page guidebook Bastedo’s background in Reiki teaching and yoga practice is present throughout the tone of the card texts.

Lady Stirling’s Wicked Garden Oracle Dieses Orakel baut seine Welt auf, bevor du auch nur eine Karte ziehst. Die Box enthält 32 Orakelkarten, eine vollständige illustrierte Novelle in Hardcover und ein separates vollfarbiges Begleitheft im Journal-Stil. Die Karten sind in satten Farben gemalt, mit Goldfolienakzenten und vergoldeten Kanten. Sprache: Englisch Qualität: Vergoldete Kanten, matte schwarze Kartenkanten, Goldfoliendetails auf Vorder- und Rückseite Inhalt: 32 Karten, 80-seitige Hardcover-Novelle, 80-seitiges Begleitheft, dekorativer Schlüssel Das Begleitheft ist als Lady Stirlings eigenes Tagebuch gestaltet und bietet pro Karte Reflexionsfragen statt fester divinatorischer Bedeutungen.

LUX Book of Sonnets Linnea Gits wrote an original sonnet for every card in the LUX tarot deck. This is not a guidebook with keywords or spreads, but a poetic interpretation of the Tarot de Marseille in verse. Black-and-white plates of the original linocut artworks appear alongside each hand-typed poem. Language: English Quality: Paperback, perfect binding, printed on premium paper in the USA Contents: 126 pages, first edition Anyone familiar with the LUX deck will find here how Linnea Gits condensed each card into fourteen lines.