The Ring Cycle Tarot, created by Allegra Printz, is a complex, non-traditional tarot based on The Ring of the Nibelung, an opera by Wagner. The 78 cards are adapted from illustrations by Arthur Rackham and are part of a deep system based on the mythology, symbolism, plot, music and characters of the Ring Cycle. Read more Ring Cycle Tarot deck
Tarot of Saqqara is a premium Tarot deck developed from fine art paintings of Donald Beaman based on the ancient spiritual knowledge of Egypt.
Five thousand years ago in the sacred sands of the Sahara, on the west bank of the river Nile, the greatest Pharaoh of the Third Dynasty commissioned Imhotep to build the first pyramid of Egypt. It was here at Saqqara during a trip in 1981 that Mr. Beaman became inspired by the great monument which served as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. Read more Tarot of Saqqara
78 artists decided to design and create the 78 cards of the Tarot deck. At first sight this idea might sound a little bit crazy and the outcome quite eclectic, but surprisingly the result it’s outstanding. Kayti and her team simply surpassed themselves! Read more 78 Tarot deck – collective art creation
Artists often create some fabulous Tarot decks, but most of the time they are lacking the knowledge of the meaning of the cards and don’t have a deeper understanding of the symbols which have not exclusively decorative, but also incorporates practical functions. Ronit Wolf is a highly intuitive and expressive illustrator and he kept the traditional Tarot symbolism withing his modern approach of graphic design when he delivered his own vision of the 22 Trumps of Tarot. Read more Ronitarot by Ronit Wolf
Fabio Listrani’s Night Sun Tarot is one of those decks I couldn’t wait to get my little hands on. I would consider this an esoteric tarot deck. On the Majors, you have the astrological, elemental, and Hebrew letter correspondences in the card corners. In the Minors, you have the elementals and decanates. Read more Night Sun Tarot deck
This is a quite powerful and expressive, erotic fueled Tarot deck created by Gustafo Ferreira Kikkel, an art professor from Argentina. He called the project “Dark Idol”. Kikkel used strong shades of red, brown with contrasting black and white, yellow and gold elements, keeping the things simple and efficient. Read more Demeroticon Tarot deck
This author continues to be fascinated by artistic symbolism. For an artist there are many ways to depart from realism, which is a style, but also from reality, which is a aspect of life. An artist may want to escape from reality, such as in fantasy art, or he may want to transcend reality or discover a deeper reality, which is the domain of symbolism. I chose to include Michaël Bellon’s art in this abstract artists gallery because of the way he combines geometric abstraction with the mystique of symbolism. While geometric abstraction (compare Mondrian, Malevich) seems to be the domain of the cool, analytic mind, with which symbolic mysticism seems to be at variance, but not in the art work of Michaël Bellon. Read more Michaël Bellon – The Major Arcane of Tarot
The set is Taschen’s reworking of Giger & Akron’s Baphomet Tarot der Unterwelt set from 1994, and I recall this being one of the last things Taschen created with Giger after spending the previous decade producing a run of books, diaries and posters featuring his paintings. Inside a box you find a set of 22 oversize Tarot trumps presenting some of Giger’s works against metallic silver surrounds. Read more Baphomet Tarot a.k.a. the H.R. Giger Tarot
The Silver Witchcraft Tarot merges tarot with modern pagan symbolism and magickal understanding. Illustrated in deep, atmospheric colour, it has a multicultural cast of robed characters set in glorious nature-based scenes. The 78 borderless cards are enhanced by silver metallic edges, and there’s also a companion book by Barbara Moore. Read more Silver Witchcraft Tarot deck
The Isidore Tarot Deck (A Neo Victorian Tarot deck): A beautiful & whimsical tarot featuring anthropomorphic characters in surreal Victorian scenes! This is an art collage style tarot that uses whimsical vintage illustrations by J.J. Grandville to recreate the symbolism of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck. Read more The Isidore Tarot Deck
