Indie tarot decks

245 products

My Friend Fire

My Friend Fire is an oracle deck by Mari Hulick, the creator behind the Gentle Tarot. Sixty hand-drawn cards are divided across five themes – listening, nourishment, growth, reflection, and change – each marked by its own colour border. The set includes a full-colour guidebook and an expansion pack of twelve spread cards.

Language: English
Quality: Matte gold edges, compact size (68 x 104 mm)
Contents: 60 oracle cards + 12 expansion cards, full-colour guidebook

Card titles are clear enough to work with intuitively, without consulting the guidebook.

€ 75,00

The Gentle Tarot Seed Edition – Deluxe Black Set

The Gentle Tarot Seed Edition

The Seed Edition is a thoroughly revised version of the Gentle Tarot, with Mari Hulick redrawing and refining many of the original illustrations. The cards now have quiet white borders, and several traditional titles have been replaced with softer alternatives, including ‘Choices’ for Justice and ‘Emergence’ for Judgement. This set includes the deck, the expanded second edition of the guidebook, a cotton canvas deck pouch, and a reading cloth.

Language: English
Quality: 330 gsm Black Core card stock, soft matte finish, periwinkle foiled edges
Contents: 83 cards, guidebook (second edition), cotton deck pouch, reading cloth

The reading cloth is available in First Edition Maroon or black; note your preference at checkout.

€ 139,95

The Forest Knows Tarot

The forest in this deck is not safe, and not hostile either. Harpies chatter, flower spirits offer nectar while their roots wrap around a wanderer’s feet, winged shadows pass without a sound. The classic 78-card tarot structure runs underneath a visual world that sits somewhere between fairy tale and unease. Cards are printed on pearlescent paper with holographic gold foil edges that shift in the light.

Language: English
Quality: 350 gsm pearlescent card stock, lacquered finish, holographic gold foil edges
Contents: 78 cards and guidebook

The box has a hollow cut-out, so the cards are visible the moment you open it.

€ 50,00

Soul Splash Tarot Plain

Zielenspat Tarot

Zielenspat 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.

€ 55,00

Fate Strings Lenormand

This Lenormand deck is shaped like a coffin and built around the imagery of marionettes and fate. The cards show theatrical scenes: figures caught between obedience and rebellion, pale hands descending from above to pull invisible strings. The mood is dark and gothic, with deep blacks and crimson reds, and roses that keep their thorns.

Language: English
Quality: 330 gsm black core cardstock, air-cushioned finish, spot UV, special telescoping coffin box
Contents: 43 cards + guidebook

The coffin shape is part of the design language, not a novelty: every detail in this deck points in the same direction.

€ 45,00

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.

€ 55,00

Song of the Grandmother Oracle

This oracle is built around the idea of grandmother energy: emotional maturity, empathy and fierce nurturing wisdom that has nothing to do with age or gender. Kara Simons of Joyful Resonance designed 66 cards divided into six colour-coded categories, from Self-Love and Harmony to Destruction. Illustrator Mari in the Sky provided botanical, elemental and animal imagery throughout.

Language: English
Quality: Uncoated card edges, rigid two-part box
Contents: 66 cards + 6 blank cards + category overview card + double-sided spread card + 174-page guidebook

The six categories are colour-coded, so you can tell at a glance which domain a card belongs to before you read a single word.

€ 75,00

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.

€ 75,00

Seraphim Tarot: The Collector’s Edition

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.

€ 95,00

She's Wilderness Tarot

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.

€ 75,00

The Soul's Haven Tarot

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.

€ 60,00

The Time Changer's Tarot

The Time Changer’s Tarot

Caitlín Matthews built this deck around a question most tarot sets do not ask: what are you doing for the world around you? The guidebook works through every card on three levels, your own situation, your community, and broader social and environmental themes. M.M. Meleen’s illustrations keep the familiar Waite-Smith compositions intact while filling them with contemporary symbolism around time and change.

Language: English
Quality: Sturdy magnetic closure box, full-colour hardcover guidebook
Contents: 78 cards and a 360-page guidebook

The court cards are presented not as fixed personality types but as roles and stages of maturity that anyone can occupy.

€ 32,95

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.

€ 45,00

Isness Gold-Black Tarot Original

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.

€ 86,60

The Isness Tarot; Original Color Edition

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.

€ 86,60

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.

€ 42,50

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.

€ 35,00

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.

€ 31,00

Lady Stirling's Wicked Garden Oracle

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.

€ 39,95

Lux Tarot Book of Sonnets

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.

€ 49,95

Sublime Thresholds Tarot

Sublime Thresholds Tarot is an 88-card deck built from Baroque, Romantic, Gothic and Symbolist paintings, selected from over 4,000 works in the public domain. Each card carries a Greek term and a ‘Sublime Code’ that extend the arcana meaning into philosophical and poetic territory. The deck also includes lines of verse from writers such as Keats, Blake, Rilke and Mary Shelley.

Language: English
Quality: 350 GSM playing card stock with linen texture, matte UV tuck box
Contents: 88 cards (78 tarot + 10 oracle cards) and mini guidebook

Created by Nitasia Roland, who wrote her MFA thesis on the concept of the Sublime.

€ 89,95

Sublime Thresholds Oracle

The Sublime Thresholds Oracle gathers 78 cards featuring gods, goddesses and archetypes from ancient cultures. Nitasia Roland selected imagery from over 4,000 historical paintings dating from the 17th to 20th century, digitally restored and enriched with gold foil.

Language: English
Quality: 350 GSM with linen texture and gold foil
Contents: 78 cards + guidebook

An oracle that translates classical art into contemporary use.

€ 75,00

The Mushroom Tarot 2nd edition

Chris Adams is an artist and amateur mycologist from Oregon, and that shows in every card. Each one depicts a specific mushroom species, drawn with field-guide accuracy and the visual energy of punk graphics. The structure follows the classic Rider-Waite-Smith system, but the imagery is entirely its own.

Language: English
Quality: 280 gsm cardstock, copper metallic edges, improved box
Contents: 81 cards

The three extra cards, the Mycoguide Significator cards, serve as reading aids and are not part of the standard Arcana.

€ 35,00

The Loong’s Dream Tarot

Loong’s Dream Tarot

This deck follows the Rider-Waite-Smith system while drawing on Chinese dragon mythology, illustrated in deep gold, black, and red. The figures on the cards show horns, scales, and tails, painted in a style that blends traditional Chinese brushwork with digital detail. Cards are printed on 350 to 400 gsm stock with gold gilded edges, and the two-piece box features a raised gold foil design.

Language: English (card titles)
Quality: Gold gilded edges, 350-400 gsm card stock, luxury embossed box
Contents: 78 tarot cards plus 2 bonus cards, with guidebook

A deck you hold for a moment before you start to read.

€ 55,00

Buy indie tarot decks by independent makers

Indie tarot and oracle decks come from independent artists and small studios rather than the big publishers. That gives each one a strong, personal character and a look you will not find anywhere else. At Tarot.nl we hold a large indie range, often in small print runs, so many titles are rare.

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A style all their own

Indie makers set their own direction, from minimalist line work to lush, detailed art. Many also lead on inclusive imagery and themes that traditional decks rarely touch, which makes the range feel fresh and varied.

Sought after by collectors

Because print runs are small, popular indie decks sell out and are not always reprinted. If you like the newest arrivals, check our latest decks regularly.

Before you buy an indie deck

Are indie decks good for reading? Yes. Many follow the Rider Waite system, so they read like any tarot deck, with unique art.
Why are some titles sold out? Indie decks are printed in small batches. Once a run sells out, a reprint is not guaranteed.
Do they come with a guide? Almost always. The product page lists exactly what is included.
How fast will my deck arrive? On orders over 75 euro you pay no shipping. We send from our own stock in the Netherlands, so your deck is on its way fast.

Why buy at Tarot.nl? One of the widest indie ranges around, held in our own stock, with real photos so you can see the art before you buy.

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Indie tarot decks

My Friend Fire

The Gentle Tarot Seed Edition

The Forest Knows Tarot

Zielenspat Tarot

Fate Strings Lenormand

Broken Mirror Tarot Mercury Special Edition

Song of the Grandmother Oracle

Emblemata Oracle

Seraphim Tarot Collector’s Edition

She’s Wilderness Tarot

The Soul’s Haven Tarot

The Time Changer’s Tarot

The Isness Tarot Guidebook

The Isness Tarot (Black Edition)

The Isness Tarot – Original Color Edition

The Baddeley Tarot

Visionary Woman Tarot

Bird Vibes Meditation Cards

Lady Stirling’s Wicked Garden Oracle

LUX Book of Sonnets

Sublime Thresholds Tarot

Sublime Thresholds Oracle

The Mushroom Tarot 2nd edition

Loong’s Dream Tarot

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