Tarot cards

Japanese Art Nouveau Tarot Illustrator Marga Biazzi studied Japanese language and culture, and that grounding shows in this deck. She combines Japanese visual motifs with art nouveau linework, building on her earlier Yokai Tarot. Writer Debora Mayfair contributed the texts. Language: English Contents: 78 tarot cards and 128-page guidebook Published by Lo Scarabeo, scheduled for April 2026.

Jane Austen Tarot Every card in this deck is based on a character or scene from Jane Austen’s novels. The suits have been adapted to her world: candles for wands, pens for swords, and denarii (period coins) for pentacles. It is a full 78-card tarot, conceived and written by Diane Wilkes, with illustrations by Italian artist Lola Airaghi, who trained at the Scuola del Fumetto di Milano. Language: English Contents: 78 cards + 128-page guidebook The suits are renamed after objects from Austen’s era, but the structure of a standard tarot remains fully intact.

Chromatika Tarot Federico Babina is an Italian architect and graphic designer, and that background shapes every card. The Chromatika Tarot does not illustrate the arcana in the traditional sense. It encodes them, using bold lines, graphic icons, and colour to evoke the Rider-Waite-Smith system rather than depict it directly. Language: English Contents: 78 tarot cards and 128-page guidebook A deck that rewards attention, not just recognition.

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.

Oracle of the Mythic Heroes Rather than gods like Zeus or Athena, this oracle centres on the mortal figures of Greek and Roman mythology: Orpheus, Daedalus, Helen of Troy. Letao Wang, a professional astrologer and tarot specialist based in Hong Kong, links each of the 40 cards to a zodiac sign, a planet and a decan. The 256-page guidebook illustrates each card with concrete examples drawn from his own counselling practice. Language: English Quality: Sturdy cards, 127 x 172 mm Contents: 40 cards and 256-page guidebook The astrological layering per card, including decan and crystal pairing, makes this an unusually detailed oracle for a 40-card deck.

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.

Queer Tarot: An Inclusive Deck and Guidebook Ash + Chess, the duo of Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham based in Richmond, Virginia, built this deck on a clear principle: every single card is based on a real LGBTQ+ person, commissioned specifically for this project. The result covers the full 78-card structure of tarot, reimagined with a wide range of gender identities, sexual orientations, skin tones, body sizes, and physical abilities. The illustrations draw on risograph-style printing, with bold lines and saturated retro colour palettes. Language: English Quality: Flocked interior tray, magnetic keepsake box with metallic foil accents, flexibind guidebook Contents: 78 cards + 176-page guidebook Each card figure was drawn from a real person, which gives this deck a grounding that purely invented designs rarely achieve.

RWS Tarot – Pamela Colman Smith This is the original Rider-Waite-Smith deck from 1909, the edition that became the foundation for almost every tarot deck published since. Pamela Colman Smith illustrated all 78 cards, including the minor arcana, with narrative scenes, something that had not existed in tarot before. The print follows the original technique, including the characteristic dot structure that belongs to this reproduction. Language: Multilingual guidebook (including English) Contents: 78 cards with guidebook Anyone learning tarot will find that almost every course, book, and online resource refers back to this deck.

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.

Oilpainting Tarot Klára Sedlo is a painter based in Prague, working at the intersection of surrealism and symbolism. Each card in this deck started as an actual oil painting on canvas, painted in a style referencing 17th-century Italian and French tarot but with entirely new figures and archetypes. The deck holds 28 cards instead of the classic 22, with titles like ‘Hen’, ‘Architect’ and ‘Shoe Quarrel’. Language: English Quality: Reproductions of original oil paintings, full colour print Contents: 28 cards with guidebook Sedlo is also a synesthete who translates feelings into visual images, a background that shows in the layered, intuitively built compositions on the cards.

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.

The Land of Stories Tarot The Land of Stories Tarot connects all 78 cards to fairy tales, fables and myths that most people already know, from Alice in Wonderland to the Legend of the White Snake. The illustrations are designed as picture-book plates: colourful, detailed and faithful to Rider-Waite-Smith symbolism. The cards are designed for those who want to learn tarot through stories that already feel familiar. Language: English (card names in English) Quality: 350 gsm coated card stock with embossing finish, rigid box with gold foil Contents: 78 cards, size 66 x 120 mm The sturdy two-part box with thumb notches and embossed detailing makes this a well-presented gift as well.

The Byzantine Tarot The Byzantine Tarot draws directly from the iconographic art of the Eastern Roman Empire. Cilla Conway painted 78 cards in the style of Byzantine mosaics and icons, dominated by gold, deep ruby red and royal blue. The structure follows the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition, but the archetypes are translated into Byzantine figures and titles. John Matthews wrote the accompanying 160-page guidebook. Language: English Quality: Vivid colours, printed gold effect, cards 70 x 120 mm Contents: 78 cards and 160-page guidebook A tarot set that reads like a historical artefact, yet remains accessible to anyone familiar with the RWS tradition.

Quên Oracle The Quên Oracle is a set of 44 hand-painted cards by Vietnamese artist Duy Khanh Vo. Each card shows a dreamy, painted scene that invites you to feel rather than look up a fixed meaning. The name ‘Quên’ means ‘to forget’ in Vietnamese, and the cards are designed to bring back memories and emotions you may have set aside. Language: English Quality: 350 gsm card stock, anti-scratch matte lamination, holographic silver edges Contents: 44 oracle cards The Quên Oracle also works as a companion to the award-winning Quên Tarot, with silver edges that complement the tarot’s gold and copper tones.

The Noira Tarot The Noira Tarot is a compact set of 81 cards by Vietnamese artist Duy Khanh Vo, known for his award-winning Quen Tarot. The cards blend a 15th-century painting style with surrealist, asymmetric portraits in deep, contrasting colours. This deck is designed to help you look at how you feel right now, not to predict what comes next. Language: English Quality: 300gsm ivory card stock, double-sided smooth matte finish, 5 x 7 cm size Contents: 81 cards (78 tarot cards + 3 signature cards) and a fold-out instruction flyer The Noira Tarot fits easily in a bag or on a desk, making it a natural choice for a daily card or shadow work practice.

Eros: The Garden of Love Tarot A burlesque take on the Tarot de Marseilles in which Uusi combines the classic structure with bold humour and sensual imagery. This third edition includes the 78 standard cards plus the exclusive 23rd major arcana ‘The Seeker’ and five Luna cards. Language: English Quality: heavy cardstock with embossed linen finish, third edition of 1000 copies Contents: 83 cards with guidebook The Marseilles structure stays recognisable, but the imagery is outspoken and distinct.

Children of Ostara Tarot – Limited Gold Edition Alexandria Huntington’s second deck in the Children of the Wheel series focuses entirely on the plant kingdom. The cards show human figures literally merged with flora: root systems entwined with hands, flowers opening from skulls, branches growing through torsos. The structure follows Rider-Waite-Smith, but each of the 80 cards carries meaning through a specific plant. The included guidebook covers card meanings, herbalism, and spells. Language: English Quality: 350 gsm card stock, matte finish, gilded edges, hardcover flip box with magnetic closure Contents: 80 cards (78 + 2 exclusive bonus cards), full-colour guidebook The card back is identical to The Children of Litha, so cards from both decks can be mixed and matched.

Green Glyphs Box Set The Green Glyphs Box Set brings together four divination systems in one box: tarot, oracle, Lenormand and runes. Designer James uses colour-coding as a consistent guide across all decks, making it easy to see at a glance whether a card is favourable or unfavourable. The Lenormand is a revised second edition, and the rune set comes with four dice you can use alongside or instead of the cards. Language: English Quality: Gilded edges, orange box per individual deck, double-sided card stand Contents: 78 tarot cards, 50 oracle cards, 41 Lenormand cards, 33 rune cards, 4 runic dice, individual guidebooks, 380-page hardcover glossary, card holder The 380-page glossary covers all four decks and explains how to use them together as one combined system.

The Oracle of Many Paths James R. Eads designed this oracle as a single continuous landscape: all 78 cards fit together to form one vast map of a forgotten world, seen from above. Every path either continues into the next card or stops without warning. The back of each card is marbled using the traditional Ebru technique, in which pigment floats on water before being transferred to paper. Language: English Quality: Dark green metallic gilded edges, rose gold foil accents, cloth-bound hardcover guidebook Contents: 78 cards + 108-page guidebook The five spreads in the guidebook were designed specifically for this deck, taking into account how each card sits within the larger landscape.

Renaissance Fantasy Tarot The Renaissance Fantasy Tarot sets the Rider-Waite-Smith system in a world of Italian Renaissance architecture and fantasy: marble floors, vaulted halls, and figures with an otherworldly quality. The 80 cards are printed on 350 gsm paper with spot-UV accents and matte gold edges. No physical guidebook is included; the guidebook is available online in Chinese and English. Language: English (card titles) Quality: 350 gsm art paper, silky finish, spot-UV, matte gold edges Contents: 80 cards, guidebook available online Presented in a rigid magnetic hinged-lid box with embossed and gold-foil stamped exterior.

Valley of the Lambs Tarot The Valley of the Lambs Tarot replaces every human figure from the classic Rider-Waite-Smith system with a white lamb. The symbolism stays intact: postures, attributes and colour coding all follow the RWS tradition closely. Artist SENGIA printed the cards on 400 gsm art paper with a linen finish and matte gold edges. Language: English Quality: 400 gsm art paper, linen finish, matte gold edges Contents: 80 cards (including 2 bonus cards) and English guidebook Two bonus cards, ‘The Dream’ and ‘The Lamb’, fall outside the standard RWS structure.

Bonefire Tarot Gabi Angus-West painted all 78 cards by hand, drawing on the old-school tattoo style of Sailor Jerry Collins: bold black outlines, clear colours, symbols that read instantly. This second edition adds nine new cards and a revised 248-page guidebook with card meanings, three spreads and a symbol glossary. Language: English Quality: Hand-painted style, standard tarot size 76 x 102 mm Contents: 78 cards and 248-page guidebook The symbol glossary is organised by motif, so you can look up exactly what you see on a card and read what Angus-West makes of it.

La Santa Muerte Lenormand Mexican folk devotion meets the classic Lenormand structure. This deck combines the 36 traditional symbols with the iconography of ‘Our Lady of the Holy Death’, a figure who listens when others remain silent. Language: Bilingual cards (Spanish/English), guidebook in English Quality: Vivid illustrations with playing card inserts for layered interpretation Contents: 36 cards and 104-page guidebook with candle rituals For readers who seek direct answers and are not afraid of honesty.