Ostara tarotkaarten

Ostara Tarot – spring equinox awakening in city and wild

Ostara feels like that first moment when the air turns soft and the city wakes up again. After winter, movement returns to everything, including you. This deck captures that vernal equinox mood as a romantic homage to nature, with imagery that brings you back to the wilderness while still speaking to everyday life.

Why choose these cards?

Ostara Tarot connects traditional tarot symbolism with contemporary themes, with a clear emphasis on the feminine and on romance toward the natural world. In the Major Arcana you meet deities and mystical archetypes that convey 22 core lessons. The Minor Arcana works with animal guides, using instinct and symbolic creatures to illuminate messages you can link to your own situation.

Each card includes keywords, and the guidebook explains both upright and reversed meanings. The stated approach is spiritual renewal and identifying your relationship with the Earth, with attention to those tender moments when you feel part of nature again. It is described as a good fit for novices and collectors, and it includes both cards and book.

About the creators

Molly Applejohn, Eden Cooke, Krista Gibbard, and Julia Iredale are four illustrators living in Vancouver, Canada. After meeting in art school and discovering a shared love of the occult, they took on the ambitious task of illustrating a tarot deck together, letting their different styles create a single, shared world.

Their work ranges from comics to murals to children’s books, and that wide background shows up in the deck’s cinematic, story-driven feel. The guidebook also explains the artists’ intentions for each card.

Set contents

• 78 tarot cards
• Guidebook: 112 pages
• Publisher: REDFeather
• Publication date: June 28, 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780764352829
• Card size: 70 x 95 mm
• Set dimensions: 152 x 38 x 133 mm
• Weight: 1048 g

Who is this product suitable for?

This deck suits readers who experience the spring equinox as a turning point and want nature imagery, romance, and a distinctly feminine tone in their readings. It is also appealing if you enjoy mythic references in the Major Arcana, where various pagan and polytheistic traditions are echoed. The animal guides in the Minors can make the deck feel approachable, because you can enter the meaning through the creature’s symbolism and behavior.

It is also a good match for anyone who likes reading with reversals, since the guidebook makes room for reversed meanings card by card.

Tips for use

At the equinox, lay seven cards: one for what is waking up, one for what is still thawing, and five as a route-map for the weeks ahead. Then use the reversed meaning as a check-in: what shifts if you delay the theme.

Ostara Tarot is an English-language tarot kit with 78 cards, keywords, upright and reversed explanations, and a 112-page guidebook.