White Sage Tarot
Animals
New age spirituality
78 cards + 2 chakra/reference cards + a 63-page LWB in a 2-part, lidded tin box.<br /><br />The cards are pocket sized, measuring 5.1 cm wide x 9.6 cm wide.<br /><br />The card stock is flexible, with a smooth, slippery semi-matte finish. Indeed, the cards are so slippery that shuffling becomes a challenge.<br /><br />The card backs feature a reversible, basket-weave design, with copyright information printed in the upper left and bottom right corners.<br /><br />Strength is 8 and Justice is 11. The Fool is numbered 0. No humans appear in any of the majors (or in any of the cards, for that matter). Many, though not all, of the majors feature animals.<br /><br />Suits are Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. The court cards are Page, Knight, Queen, and King. Instead of human courts, each suit features a different animal: raptors (birds of prey) in the court of Wands, otters in the court of Cups, big cats in the court of Swords, and elephants in the court of Pentacles.<br /><br />The minor arcana are illustrated, but not fully scenic. Some of the minors hint at RWS-style meanings, but others are little more than arrangements of suit symbols.<br /><br />To me, the White Sage tarot falls into the general category of "clean and contemporary" decks marketed to people who know nothing about tarot, but want something soft and pretty and Instagrammable. <br /><br />I can't see any way to read with this deck other than consulting the LWB, or applying memorized, rote meanings; there's not enough "there" in the images to spark intuition.
Hutch, Theresa
U.S. Games
© 2018
78 cards
English
Other
ISBN 9781572819542
WPA Tarot
WPA posters
78 cards in a plain white cardboard tuck box with a see-through window on the front. A small slip of paper accompanied the deck, providing basic details (title, artist, and Etsy shop URL).<br /><br />The cards measure 2.75" wide x 4.75" long. The cardstock is flexible, but doesn't "bounce back" as well as it might; I'd advise caution when shuffling. The cards have a smooth, matte finish with a barely discernable texture.<br /><br />The card back design is non-reversible, feauturing a red, white, and blue "Exhibition" poster.<br /><br />Justice is VIII and Strength is XI. The Fool is numbered 0.<br /><br />Suits are Cups, Pentacles, Swords, and Wands. The court cards are Page, Knight, Queen, and King.<br /><br />The minor arcana are not scenic; like all of the cards in the deck, they feature largely unedited pictures of WPA posters. <br /><br />Had this been produced as a majors-only art deck, I might be able to recommend this tarot -- but as a 78 card deck, it fails. The minor arcana simply aren't the same quality as the majors, in that the art doesn't seem to be intentionally matched with suits and numbers. Also, on some cards the art is stretched out of proportion.<br /><br />After being so disappointed by Bobby Alexander's "Golden Age of Horror" tarot, I was on the fence about this deck, but decided to give them one more chance. But I made a poor gamble. This is the last of Alexander's decks that I will buy.<br /><br />This tarot was initially marketed and funded via a Kickstarter campaign in 2020. I was a backer at the $25 level, for one copy of the deck. Following the conclusion of the campaign, the creator also began offering copies for sale in their Etsy shop.
Alexander, Bobby
<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1468389582/tarot-card-deck-based-on-1940s-wpa-posters-major-and-minor/description" target="_blank" title="WPA Kickstarter" rel="noreferrer noopener">WPA tarot - Kickstarter campaign</a>
Self-published
2020
78 cards
English
Other
Witchy Tarot
Witches
Witchcraft
Magic
Wicca
78 cards + a title card and an advertising card + an LWB in a standard cardboard tuck box.<br /><br /><span>Cards measure 12 cm tall x 6.6 cm wide. The card stock is very flexible, with a smooth, mostly-matte finish. This deck could easily be riffle-shuffled.<br /></span><br />The card backs are reversible.<br /><br />Justice is VIII and Strength is XI. The Fool is numbered 0.<br /><br />The suits are Cauldrons (<em>Chalices</em>), Boulders (<em>Pentacles</em>), Flames (<em>Wands</em>), and Broomsticks (<em>Swords</em>). The court cards are Celebration (<em>Knave</em>), Moon (<em>Knight</em>), Goddess (<em>Queen</em>), and Trial (<em>King</em>).<br /><br />The minors are fully scenic. They do not follow any discernable tradition, and seem to be telling their own story. <br /><br />To me, this seems like more of an oracle deck than a true tarot deck. Yes, it has 78 cards divided into 22 majors and 56 minors, but beyond that it diverges too far from any known tarot system.
Platano, Antonella (artist)
Tuan, Laura (author)
Lo Scarabeo
© 2003
78 cards
Multiple languages
Other
ISBN 978-0-7387-0445-6
Wooden Tarot
Animals
26 cards + a signed, numbered title card with a LWB in a clear, plastic tuckbox.
Why 26 cards? The 22 majors are here, plus the 4 aces.
The cards are larger than average, measuring 15.2 cm x 10.2 cm.
The card stock is wonderfully flexible, and has a smooth, matte finish.
The backs are fully reversible.
Strength is 8 and Justice is 11. The Fool is numbered 0.
The art is beautiful and unique, featuring animals and wildlife. There are no humans in this deck, though two cards (The Devil and Judgement) both depict human skulls.
My copy is # 202 out of a limited edition of 1000. This deck initially began as a Kickstarter project, but I was not a backer -- I purchased my copy after the Kickstarter campaign, via Etsy.
I paid $30 USD for this deck on September 8, 2013.
Swartz, Amy
<a href="http://www.skullgarden.net/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.skullgarden.net/</a>
Skullgarden
2013
26 cards
English
Other
# 202 of 1000
Original Oswald Wirth Tarot of 1889
Historical tarot
Art
22 cards + a signed and numbered title card, in a two-part, lidded, clear plastic box.
Cards measure 12 cm tall x 6.5 cm wide.
Card backs are plain white (and thus, of course, reversible).
The card stock is extremely flexible, with a smooth, just slightly glossed finish.
Justice is 8 and Strength (Force) is 11. The Fool (Le Fou) is unnumbered. Card titles are in French.
The Original Oswald Wirth Tarot of 1889 is number 25 in Adam McLean's Art Tarot series, and is limited to 100 copies. My copy is numbered 21, and the title card is signed by Adam.
A few cards are printed just slightly off-center.
McLean, Adam
Wirth, Oswald, 1860-1943
<a title="http://www.alchemywebsite.com/tarot/" href="http://www.alchemywebsite.com/tarot/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.alchemywebsite.com/tarot/</a>
Adam McLean
2012
22 cards
French
Oswald Wirth
#21 out of 100
Wicca Moon Tarot
Wicca
Witchcraft
74 cards in a standard cardboard tuck box. There's no LWB, but there is a 1 page (printed on both sides) foldout with tables of correspondences for the Majors and Courts.
Why only 74 cards? Instead of a separate Queen and King for each suit, the two are combined into a King and Queen card -- thus, each suit has only 3 Courts.
Cards measure 14.5 cm tall x 9.5 cm wide -- large enough that they are difficult to shuffle.
Card backs are non-reversible.
The card stock is slightly flexible, with a very smooth, matte finish.
The cards are borderless, and the card corners are square (non-rounded).
Suits are Pentacles, Wands, Cups, and Swords. Courts are Page, Knight, & King and Queen.
The minors are illustrated and sometimes contain suggestions of scenes, but aren't scenic in the typical sense. The Pentacles suit is the least detailed; the Pentacles minors are mostly just arrangements of suit symbols against a wintery background.
Strength is 8 and Justice is 11. The Fool is numbered 0.
The box is signed by the artist. The condition of the box is fairly worn, though still serviceable, as you can see in the scans.
There is no copyright date or date of publication on the cards, box, foldout insert, or on the Wicca Moon website. I purchased my copy in 2012, and a discussion of the deck on the Aeclectic Tarot forums began in 2012, so my best guess is that it was published in this century, and possibly as late as 2012, though the box hardly seemed "new" when I purchased the deck.
Personal note: As I was making the scans for this entry, I discovered that I have an extra 7 of Cups card, and I'm missing a 9 of Cups card. I will try to contact the artist to get a 9 of Cups card if possible.
Contact information for the Wicca Moon tarot:
Shirlee at Wicca Moon
50 Well Hall Road
Eltham
London
SE9 6SH
Shirlee at Wicca Moon
<a title="http://www.wiccamoon.org.uk/" href="http://www.wiccamoon.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.wiccamoon.org.uk/</a>
shirlee@wiccamoon.org.uk
Self-published
n.d.
78 cards
English
Other
Web Designer's Tarot
Web Tarot
Web Design
Internet
22 cards, full color, major's only deck originally created for the created for the 2011 ConvergeSE conference. Does not come with an LWB, bag, or box. There is one extra, blank card. (Comes wrapped in clear plastic with some miscellaneous advertising stickers, pins, etc. from UnmatchedStyle.)
Cards measure 12 cm tall x 7 cm wide.
The card stock is nicely flexible, with a smooth, matte finish.
The backs have a reversible grey and white pattern.
Each card bears a "traditional" title as well as a number and a unique title in keeping with the deck's theme.
For instance, The Fool is also titled The Client, and also bears the number 0.
Strength is 8 (also titled jQuery) and Justice is 11 (also titled Responsive Design).
I paid $25 USD for my copy, new, in September 2011.
It is un-numbered and has no ISBN.
DiFeterici, Giovanni
UnmatchedStyle
2011
22 cards
English
Other
Radical Wirth
Historical
23 cards plus a signed and dated title card, in a green bag with a purple lining, featuring a copy of the Star card on the front.
Cards measure 13.3 cm tall x 7.5 cm wide.
This copy came with two different Fool cards, each with different coloration. One of the Fool cards is numbered 0, while the other is unnumbered.
Death is untitled and unnumbered.
The title card is signed by the artist (Carol Herzer) and dated 8-4-11 (that's 4 August 2011).
As noted on the title card, this deck is based on the Tarot of Oswald Wirth, originally published in 1889.
The card stock is very flexible, and is laminated on both sides. The lamination is smooth and shiny, though not distractingly shiny.
The card backs are a light gold color with a field of white stars, and are reversible.
Herzer, Carol
Self-published
2011
23 cards
English
Oswald Wirth
William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination, Revised edition
William Blake
Poetry
Art
79 cards plus a card explaining the suits plus a LWB, in a standard cardboard tuck box. This copy is part of the 2nd (or revised) edition, 1st printing, a run of 2500 unnumbered copies. (The 1st edition was in 1995.)
It also shipped with 3 documents: 1) an order form for other tarot related products, 2) a copy of Ed Buryn's paper "Old Symbols for a New Age" which was presented at the 1st International Tarot Conference in Melbourne, Australian on July 12, 1997, and 3) a copy of Ed Buryn's "The Wheel of Eternity in the William Blake Tarot" chart and essay.
The cards measure 12 cm tall x 8 cm wide.
The card stock is flexible, with a glossy finish.
Card backs are non-reversible.
An unique feature of this deck is the 79th card (actually the very first card in the deck), titled "00 Eternity". It precedes "0 Innocence" (which is the retitled Fool card).
Justice (retitled Assessment) is 8, and Strength (retitled Energy) is 11.
Many, though not all, of the major arcana are retitled.
Suits are Painting (pentacles), Science (swords), Music (cups), and Poetry (wands). Courts are Angel, Child, Woman, and Man.
Retailed for $32 USD in June 2011.
Buryn, Ed
<a href="http://edburyn.com/Tarot/Tarot-Home.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://edburyn.com/Tarot/Tarot-Home.html</a>
T.A.R.O.T.
P.O. Box 720
Nevada City, CA
95959
United States
2010 (revised edition, 1st printing, 2500 copies)
79 cards
English
Other
978-0-916804-00-8
White Light Tarot
Reiki
Energy
Healing
Chakras
New Age
Spirituality
78 cards plus 3 cards with deck information, spreads, and general meanings, housed in a standard cardboard tuck box. No LWB.
Cards measure 10.8 cm tall x 7 cm wide.
The card stock is flexible, with a dull matte finish.
Card backs are non-reversible.
Justice is 8, Strength is 11, and the Fool is numbered 0.
The minors are illustrated and evocative, but not fully scenic. Each card has a keyword title at the top, in addition to it's suit name and number.
Suits are Swords, Disks, Wands, and Cups. Courts are Page, Knight, Queen, and King.
Wilson, Jessica Fisher
<a href="http://whitelighttarot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://whitelighttarot.com/</a>
White Light Tarot / self-published
2006
78 cards
English
Other
Whispering Tarot
General
Art
78 cards plus an informational card and a signed and numbered title card. Packed in a 2 piece lidded cardboard box. The box lid is numbered, next to the barcode.
My copy is #469 out of a limited edition of 500.
The cards are smaller than average, measuring 8.8 cm tall x 6.2 cm wide.
The card stock is flexible, with a matte finish.
Backs are reversible.
The majors are unnumbered. The minors are fully scenic.
Suits are Pentacles, Cups, Wands, and Swords. Courts are Princess, Knight, Queen, and King.
Hazel, Elizabeth
<p><a href="http://kozmic-kitchen.com">http://kozmic-kitchen.com</a></p>
Self published
2008
78 cards
English
Other
978-0-615-20997-5
#469 out of 500
White Bat Tarot
Bats
Art
Animals
78 cards + 5 cards with one-line meanings and a signed and numbered title card. Wrapped in a white silk handkerchief, inside a lidded tin. The lid of the tin is numbered and signed as well.
My copy is #22 out of limited edition of 25.
The cards are slightly smaller than average, measuring 10.2 cm tall x 6.7 cm wide (4 inches tall x 2 5/8 inches wide).
The cards have a shiny laminate coating on both sides.
Backs are reversible.
The majors are un-numbered. The Devil card is re-named "Over-Indulgence."
The minors are fully scenic.
Suits are Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles. Courts are Page, Knight, Queen, and King.
I purchased my copy from the artist's Etsy store for $85 USD on June 22nd, 2011.
Seilonen, Beth
Self-published
2010
78 cards
English
Other
#22 of 25