The Goddess Inspiration Oracle is an 80-card deck by talented artist Kris Waldherr, designer of the Goddess Tarot. The art displays 80 goddesses from diverse backgrounds and beliefs, and both well known and lesser known deities.
Illustrator/Author: Kris Waldherr
Name: Goddess Inspiration Oracle
Publisher: Llewellyn 2007
Type: Oracle Deck
Total Number of Cards: 80
Language: English
Companion Material: The 120-page "Goddess Inspiration Oracle Guide" companion book.
The Chakra Reading Cards are designed to balance the chakras, and achieve healing, wisdom, knowledge, and empowerment. It's a 36-card deck divided into nine suits of four cards each - one for each of the seven main chakras, as well as two additional chakras.
Illustrator/Author: Rachelle Charman, Renee Sarasvati
Name: Chakra Reading Cards
Publisher: Rockpool Publishing 2017
Type: Oracle Deck
Total Number of Cards: 36
Card Size: 3.46 x 5.51 in. = 8.80cm x 14.00cm
Language: English
Companion Material: Rachelle Charman's 112-page guidebook.
A collective tarot deck project, currently in progress, created to honor the magic of becoming a woman. The cards for the Diva Tarot are circular in shape to hold, and contain within them a variety of intricate and detailed designs meshed in with vibrant and colorful illustrations.
Illustrator/Author: Diva Tarot Artists
Name: Diva Tarot
Publisher: Unpublished
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
For an expert Tarot reader, or for meditation, the Haindl Tarot has non-traditional imagery and is highly recommended. The poet, Hermann Haindl, was influenced by the profound and convincing artwork of Qabbalah, Runes, I Ching, and Native American influences.
Illustrator/Author: Hermann Haindl
Name: Haindl Tarot
Publisher: US Games 1990
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Deck Tradition: Mixed
Minor Arcana Style: Unique Scenes With Suit Symbols
Suits: Cups, Stones, Swords, Wands
Court Cards: Mother, Father, Daughter, Son
The Fool is 0
Strength is 8
Justice is 11
Card Size: 2.75 x 5.00 in. = 6.99cm x 12.70cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
The Linestrider Tarot is a deck of linestriders of 78 cards, those who live their life straddling two realms, emotions, emotional states or realities. In order to make beautiful and evocative cards, this deck takes the idea and merges it with Rider-Waite type tarot symbolism.
Illustrator/Author: Siolo Thompson
Name: Linestrider Tarot
Publisher: Llewellyn 2016
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Suits: Wands, Swords, Cups, Pentacles
Court Cards: Page, Knight, Queen, King
Card Size: 2.76 x 5.00 in. = 7.00cm x 12.70cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: Rorschach-like replicated pattern of pale blues and grays.
Companion Material: 274 page instruction book by Siolo Thompson, artist and creator.
In a romantic, watercolour art nouveau style, the Art Nouveau Oracle is illustrated, and is visually quite close to the Tarot Art Nouveau. The deck itself has 36 cards and is based on the pattern of Lenormand.
Illustrator/Author: Antonella Castelli
Name: Art Nouveau Oracle
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo 2008
Type: Oracle Deck
Total Number of Cards: 36
Card Size: 2.44 x 3.94 in. = 6.20cm x 10.00cm
Language: None
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: A repeated floral pattern of art nouveau.
Via its 78 cards, the Paulina Tarot creates a magical, whimsical natural universe. The artistic style of Paulina Cassidy is extremely complex and full of detail, colored in subdued hues with watercolor washes. It's a bit Victorian, it's a bit Tim Burton-esque, and it's really enchanting.
Illustrator/Author: Paulina Cassidy
Name: Paulina Tarot
Publisher: US Games 2009
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Deck Tradition: Rider-Waite-Smith
Minor Arcana Style: RWS-Based Scenes
The Fool is 0
Strength is 8
Justice is 11
Language: English
Companion Material: A small white booklet
Tarot de Boig (Tarot of the Fool in Catalan), by the British figurative and symbolist painter, Ben J. Gross, is a collection of 22 original artistic canvases. The art is also influenced by Dali, Bosch, Chagall, Bacon and others while holding its origins in the Tarot de Marseille. The artist is providing prints of the main arcana, and the minor arcana is in progress.
Illustrator/Author: Ben J. Gross
Name: Tarot de Boig
Publisher: Self Published 2014
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 22
Major Arcana: 22
Deck Tradition: Marseilles
Language: None
The Medici Tarot portrays Florence, the prominent Medici family of the fifteenth century, through works by artists from the Renaissance who collaborated with them. With bright colour and detail, these 22 cards are beautifully printed of fine art standards.
Illustrator/Author: Londa Marks
Name: Medici Tarot
Publisher: Alchemist Publishing 2009
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 22
Major Arcana: 22
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Companion Material: Companion booklet with 28 pages, and a three-card spread leaflet.
The Japaridze Tarot is a 78-card fine art tarot with original artwork by the contemporary Parisian artist, Nino Japaridze. Her tarot artwork is bold and evocative, by collage-style surrealist paintings exploring tarot symbols. Released by US Games in a deluxe pack, and with a 176-page full-colour companion guide.
Illustrator/Author: Nino Japaridze
Name: Japaridze Tarot
Publisher: US Games 2014
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Card Size: 3.00 x 5.25 in. = 7.62cm x 13.34cm
Language: English
Companion Material: The deck is bundled with a 178-page companion book by Steve Lucas. It has full-page reproductions of the cards in color, plus explanations and interpretations of divinity.
Additional Info: The deck was released as a collaborative collaboration with Steve Lucas' own Gallery of Surrealism in New York City.
Inspired by the rich and detailed artistic style of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a Flemish painter, these cards expose in vibrant fashion the everyday life of a medieval peasant. It is a rather more earthy Tarot than the same author's Giotto Tarot - this one features intoxicated peasants!
Illustrator/Author: Guido Zibordi
Name: Bruegel Tarot
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
The Bosch Tarot deck, which is strikingly vivid, portrays beings, demons and dreams as Tarot cards. The art style is modelled on that of Dutch artist Hieronymous Bosch and has elements from his paintings. Intriguing.
Illustrator/Author: A. Atanassov
Name: Bosch Tarots
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo 2000
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Deck Tradition: Italian
Minor Arcana Style: Unique Scenes Without Suit Symbols
Suits: Chalices, Pentacles, Swords, Wands
Court Cards: Knave, Knight, Queen, King
The Fool is 0
Strength is 11
Justice is 8
Card Size: 2.60 x 4.72 in. = 6.60cm x 12.00cm
Language: Spanish, Italian, French, English, Dutch
Card Rear: Unknown
Companion Material: You also get a little white booklet.
The Golden Tarot is a sumptuous Tarot collage deck, combining medieval and Renaissance artwork skillfully into whole Tarot scenes. The Golden Tarot, long known as a digital card, is now being printed at the US Sports. In a durable case with a companion book, the edition comes with cards with gold edges.
Illustrator/Author: Kat Black
Name: Golden Tarot
Publisher: US Games 2004
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Deck Tradition: Rider-Waite-Smith
Minor Arcana Style: RWS-Based Scenes
Suits: Cups, Swords, Wands, Coins
Court Cards: Page, Knight, Queen, King
Major Titles: Fool, Magician, High Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, The Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World
The Fool is 0
Strength is 8
Justice is 11
Card Size: 2.91 x 4.84 in. = 7.40cm x 12.30cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: Tapestry-like, cream and brown pattern
Companion Material: Kat Black's 200-page book is bundled along with the deck.
In a stunning collection of large-size cards, the DruidCraft Tarot incorporates the natural spiritualities of Wicca and Druidry. The Druid Animal Oracle was created by famous druids Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm and artist Will Worthington, who also created it.
Illustrator/Author: Stephanie Carr-Gomm, Philip Carr-Gomm, Will Worthington
Name: DruidCraft Tarot
Publisher: Connections 2005
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Deck Tradition: Rider-Waite-Smith
Minor Arcana Style: Unique Scenes With Suit Symbols
Suits: Cups, Swords, Wands, Pentacles
Court Cards: Prince, Princess, Queen, King
Major Titles: The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Lady, The Lord, The High Priest, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, The Wheel, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, The Fferyllt, Cernunnos, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Rebirth, The World
The Fool is 0
Strength is 8
Justice is 11
Card Size: 3.54 x 5.51 in. = 9.00cm x 14.00cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: Plain, dark brown with slight details of gold in the middle and corners.
Companion Material: The 192-page softcover book is bundled in a cardboard box along with the cards.
The Chrysalis Tarot is a 78-card deck of luminous, informative paintings by author Toney Brooks and artist Holly Sierra with a Pagan feel and rich symbolism. A stunning and exclusive stand-alone set, with modern archetypes in the majors and fresh images in the minors and court cards, it takes a fresh and non-traditional approach to tarot.
Illustrator/Author: Holly Sierra, Toney Brooks
Name: Chrysalis Tarot
Publisher: US Games 2014
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Deck Tradition: Mixed
Minor Arcana Style: Special Scenes Without Symbols of Suit.
Suits: Stones (Pentacles), Mirrors (Cups), Spirals (Wands), Scrolls (Swords)
Court Cards: Page, Knight, Queen, King
Major Titles: 0 - Merlin, 1 - Ravens, II - Sorceress, III - Gaia, IV - Green Man, V - Divine Child, VI - Lovers, VII - Herne The Hunter, VIII - Ma'at, IX - Storyteller, X - Wheel, XI - Papa Legra, XII - Celtic Owl, XIII - Ariadne, XIV - Golden Flower, XV - Bella Rosa, XVI - Kali, XVII - Elpi, XVIII - Moon, XIX - Sun, XX - Phoenix, XXI - Psyche
The Fool is 0
Strength is 11
Justice is 8
Card Size: 2.75 x 4.75 in. = 6.99cm x 12.07cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: A butterfly's multi-colored mirrored pattern
Companion Material: A slim 60-page white paperback.
A complete re-conception and overhaul of the famous Greenwood Tarot is the Wildwood Tarot. This time around, author Mark Ryan is collaborating with John Matthews and DruidCraft Tarot illustrator Will Worthington to create this deck based on the ancient year's seasonal cycles and festivals.
Illustrator/Author: John Matthews, Mark Ryan, Will Worthington
Name: Wildwood Tarot
Publisher: Sterling 2011
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
The Osho Zen Tarot, based on the transcendental game of Zen, is a non-traditional 79 card deck. There are several modifications that match the Zen style, including one additional big Osho arcana card, and four fire suits, clouds, water, and rainbows. The cards range from the stunningly exquisite to the absurd and mundane, across the range of human experience.
Illustrator/Author: Ma Deva Padma, Osho
Name: Osho-Zen Tarot
Publisher: St Martins Press 1995
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 79
Major Arcana: 23
Minor Arcana: 56
Minor Arcana Style: Unique Scenes Without Suit Symbols
Suits: Water, Swords, Clouds, Rainbows
Court Cards: Page, Knight, Queen, King
Major Titles: The Fool, Existence, Inner Voice, Creativity, The Rebel, No-Thingness, The Lovers, Awareness, Courage, Aloneness, Change, Breakthrough, New Vision, Transformation, Integration, Conditioning, Thunderbolt, Silence, Past Lives, Innocene, Beyond Illusion, Completion
The Fool is 0
Strength is 8
Justice is 11
Card Size: 2.91 x 4.29 in. = 7.40cm x 10.90cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Non-reversible
Rear Design: Abstract design of gold, red and black. Not reversible physically, but similar enough visually.
Companion Material: The 176-page large format book is bundled with the cards in the kit.
The Universal Marseille Tarot is based on Claude Burdel's Swiss deck produced in 1751, keeping the woodcat look but with more realistic shading of color. It has now been launched as a standalone deck, and is expected later to be published as a package written by Lee Bursten with a companion novel.
Illustrator/Author: Lee Bursten
Name: Universal Marseille Tarot
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo 2006
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
A traditional Tarot deck, perhaps the most popular in the Western world, is the Rider-Waite Tarot. As the cards drawn by Pamela Colman-Smith and commissioned by Waite were the first to use detailed pictures on the minor arcana cards, it is sometimes considered the first modern Tarot deck.
Illustrator/Author: A. E. Waite, Pamela Colman-Smith
Name: Rider-Waite Tarot/Rider Tarot, Waite Tarot, Waite-Smith Tarot
Publisher: US Games 1971
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Deck Tradition: Rider-Waite-Smith
Minor Arcana Style: RWS-Based Scenes
Suits: Cups, Swords, Wands, Pentacles
Court Cards: Page, Knight, Queen, King
Major Titles: Fool, Magician, High Priestess, Empress, Emperor, Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, The Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World
The Fool is 0
Strength is 8
Justice is 11
Card Size: 2.75 x 4.63 in. = 6.99cm x 11.75cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: Thin lines of blue and black tartan on white.
Lenormand's The Dreaming Way is a 36-card Petit Lenormand with charming, scenic illustrations of the same artist's traditional symbols that created the Dreaming Way Tarot.
Illustrator/Author: Kwon Shina, Lynn Araujo
Name: Dreaming Way Lenormand
Publisher: US Games 2016
Type: Oracle Deck
Total Number of Cards: 36
Card Size: 2.50 x 3.50 in. = 6.35cm x 8.89cm
Language: English
Companion Material: This deck comes with a 92-page booklet.
The Celtic Lenormand has 45 stunning cards from the DruidCraft Tarot, illustrated by Will Worthington. There are additional cards for both the gender balance and to extend the Pagan and Celtic theme, in addition to the 36 usual Lenormand cards.
Illustrator/Author: Will Worthington, Chloe McCracken
Name: Celtic Lenormand
Publisher: US Games 2015
Type: Oracle Deck
Total Number of Cards: 45
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: In shades of yellow and gold, Celtic knotwork designs
Companion Material: This deck comes with a 188-page guidebook
A large, 36-card Lenormand deck with a fantasy fairy theme is the Fairy Lenormand Oracle. In a storybook world, the cards have sleek, detailed illustrations of pretty fairies.
Illustrator/Author: Davide Corsi, Marcus Katz, Tali Goodwin
Name: Fairy Lenormand Oracle
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo 2015
Type: Oracle Deck
Total Number of Cards: 36
Card Size: 3.46 x 4.92 in. = 8.80cm x 12.50cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: A pink and purple butterfly-like mirrored image on the background of leaves.
Companion Material: There are instructions in English, Spanish, Italian, French, and German in the 128 page guidebook by Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin.
In the 78 Rider-Waite cards, The After Tarot shows what could have happened next in each scene. The illustrations are a close replication of the original artistic style of Pamela Colman-Smith. It's a very creative notion, and a companion deck to the New Vision Tarot.
Illustrator/Author: Pietro Alligo, Corrine Kenner, Giulia F. Massaglia
Name: After Tarot
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo 2016
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Card Size: 2.56 x 4.72 in. = 6.50cm x 12.00cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: Roses and lilies surround the central yellow cross.
Companion Material: A little white booklet in six languages with the deck included. Also available is a kit edition with a full companion book by Corinne Kenner.
In the classic Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot, the striking, intriguing artwork was conceptualized by the renowned occultist and member of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley, and created by Lady Frieda Harris. The deck has 80 cards in this edition, which has three variations of the Magus game.
Illustrator/Author: Aleister Crowley, Frieda Harris
Name: Aleister Crowley Thoth Tarot
Publisher: US Games 1978
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 80
Major Arcana: 24
Minor Arcana: 56
Deck Tradition: Crowley Thoth
Minor Arcana Style: Thoth-Based
Suits: Cups, Swords, Wands, Disks
Court Cards: Princess, Prince, Queen, Knight
Major Titles: The Fool, The Magus, The Priestess, The Empress, The The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Adjustment, The Hermit, Fortune, Lust, The Hanged Man, Death, Art, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, The Aeon, The Universe
The Fool is 0
Strength is 11
Justice is 8
Card Size: 2.76 x 4.33 in. = 7.00cm x 11.00cm
Language: English
Card Rear: Non-reversible
Rear Design: On a checkered backdrop, a multi-coloured Rosicrucian cross.
Companion Material: This edition comes together with a 48-page companion booklet.
The Wild Unknown Tarot, based on the animal kingdom and the natural world, has basic but intuitive tarot diagrams. When it was released in 2012, it was an extremely popular standalone deck, and is now widely available in a box set that contains 78 cards and a 208-page guidebook.
Illustrator/Author: Kim Krans
Name: The Wild Unknown Tarot
Publisher: Harper Collins 2016
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: Black and white lattice pattern.
Companion Material: The deck contains a 208-page companion guidebook.
The Byzantine Tarot draws on the history, architecture, iconography and tradition of the 4th - 15th century Byzantine Empire. The 78 cards were developed by illustrator Cilla Conway in the rich and opulent style of the period. The deck is packaged with a detailed companion book by John Matthews.
Illustrator/Author: John Matthews, Cilla Conway
Name: Byzantine Tarot
Publisher: Weiser Books 2015
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Suits: Cups, Staffs, Swords, Coins
Language: English
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: The four-pointed central star is surrounded by smaller stars on a lush blue backdrop, angels in each corner, and a rectangular inset line.
Companion Material: The deck is bundled with a 160-page hardcover companion book by John Matthews.
The Impressionist Tarot pays tribute, with 78 cards in Parisian theme and feeling, to the artists of 19th century France. Wands' suits are based on the art of Manet, Cups are Monet, Swords are Van Gogh, Degas are Pentacles, and the majors are a blend of French artists.
Illustrator/Author: Corrine Kenner, Arturo Picca
Name: Impressionist Tarot
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo 2015
Type: Tarot Deck
Total Number of Cards: 78
Major Arcana: 22
Minor Arcana: 56
Language: None
Card Rear: Reversible
Rear Design: The picture of a framed painting on the back.
Companion Material: Multilingual 64-Page Paperback.