Tarot of PsyChicks

Creator(s): Lynyrd-Jym Narciso
Date: 2010
Country: Philippines
Publisher: self-published
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:  
Type: other
Reference: aeclectic









 
Notes:
This Majors only deck shows women dressed in the theme of each major arcana card. It is a miniature deck, which came with the Tarot Rikit, and isn't available separately.

The cards are numbered, but have no titles.

It is a limited edition, mine is number 33.

Tarot para Chicas

Creator(s): Alice Bensimon, Hilton McConnico
Date: 2010
Country: Spain
Publisher: De Vecchi
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-84-315-5000-4 
Type: other
Reference: De Vecchi






Notes:
The deck came in a box with compartments for the 78 gilt edged cards and an explanatory booklet. Booklet and the card titles are Spanish only.

 There exists also a French edition from 2009 called Le Tarot des Filles.

The images on the Majors  departs considerably from the established tarot, all Majors are renamed. The Minors are pips and the suits were renamed Emocion/ Accion/ Mental/ Triumfes rapidos.

Joseph Hilton McConnico  is a designer and artist who was born in Memphis, Tennessee but has lived and worked in Paris since 1965. He worked for fashion labels and as art director for films. Alice Bensimon  also created the El Tarot de las Mafias which is ment as the corresponding Tarot for men.

Ironwing Tarot

Creator(s): Lorena Babcock Moore
Date: 2004
Country: USA
Publisher: self-published
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:  
Type: other
Reference: artist's page 



 

Notes:
Lorena B. Moore is a blacksmith/metalworker who lives in Tucson, Arizona. Her Ironwing Tarot celebrates the ancient art of blacksmithing and its connection with shamanism. The deck is inspired by nature, geology and metallurgy, and the sacred Black Metal itself.

The Ironwing deck consists of slightly renamed Majors as follows: The Lodestone, The Magician, Red Earth, The Forge, The Anvil, Tradition, Connection, The Road, Crystallization, The Hermit, The Wheel, Strength, Trance, Death, Quench, Molten Iron, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, The Furnace and The World. The Majors depict iron geology, blacksmithing tools, and metal refining processes. Vignettes of the shaman’s initiatory experience also appear in many of the cards.

The Minor Arcana  beginning with Ore (Ace) and then proceeding from Two to Ten. The suits are Spikes (fire) which refer to thorns, spines, twigs and resins, Coils (water) refering to shells, flowers and  beach find, Blades(air), which refer to feathers, leaves, herbs and paper, while Bells (earth) refering to roots, gnarled wood, fungi and seeds.

The Face Cards, or Courts, in this deck have been appropriately renamed Spirit Guides, and are called Apprentice (Page), Gatemaker (Knight), Madrone (Queen) and Shaman (King). All are female and depict “four idealized stages of a woman’s growth in the skills and mysteries of the smith’s craft and the shaman’s calling.”


The Art is black and white ink scratchboard drawings. Major Arcana accented with three shades of red ochre, a natural earth pigment and iron ore. The Card backs are non-reversible. The card dimensions are 2.5" x 4.6", printed on white stock with a matte finish. This size is a little wider and shorter than a standard deck.

The deck comes with a spiral bound book, that includes, beyond card descriptions, short essays on iron geology and mythology, blacksmithing and Shamanism.The book is available for free download as pdf  on the artist' website.

Vanessa Tarot

Creator(s): Lynyrd-Jym Narciso
Date: 2007
Country: USA
Publisher: US Games
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-1-57281-574-2 
Type: RWS
Reference: aeclectic






Notes:
The deck has been inspired by the heroines of pop culture. The Emperor shows a woman looking like Hillary Clinton as president of the United States. The Two of Wands looks like Sophia Loren as a chemist. The Eight of wands has Samantha from “Bewitched” riding with an escort of empty broomsticks.

The cards are smaller than most Tarot decks and measure 9,5 x 6cm. The fully reversible backs show a purple-striped background with blue stars. The deck comes  in a purple tin box. In the LWB each Major card has a little description of the image and a set of meanings for upright and reversed positions, the minors are listed by number.

Kitchen Tarot

Creator(s): Dennis Fairchild, Susan Shie
Date: 2010
Country: USA
Publisher: Hay House
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:  978-1401924164 
Type: other
Reference: artist's website

Notes:
Susan Shie is a full-time artist who paints, draws, writes, and sews in order to create her artwork. Susan Shie began in 1998 with the Colander piece for the traditional Fool card. Each new mixed-media art quilt had its own size and proportions, and during the first year, she made only two pieces because her painting and hand sewing were so time-consuming. Later she learned to use both airbrush and airpen, and slowly switched from intense hand sewing  to  hand journaling and machine sewing. These changes allowed her to work faster.
Dennis Fairchild is a well known author of more than a dozen books and prediction calendars. 

The cards are larger than in traditional decks and follow RWS tradition only so far that Justice is 11 and Strenght is 8, but  the artist has changed completely the names of the arcana in order to fill the kitchen, e.g. instead of The Tower, we have The Pressure Cooker or instead of The Moon, we have The Calendar.The art shows many words as a sort of quick reference to the traditional name and meaning of the card.

Housewives Tarot

Creator(s): Paul Kepple, Jude Buffum
Date: 2004  
Country: USA
Publisher: Quirk Books
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-1-931686-990   
Type: RWS
Reference:  housewives tarot

Notes:
The deck came in a box with dividers that look like a 1950s recipe box.  The backs of the dividers have recipes, such as Divinated Eggs. 

The creators have used midcentury advertising artwork to create a RWS clone with a  50s look.

The Major Arcana cards represent various figures of inspiration and influences of the housewife on her journey through romances, conflicts, trails and tribulations of her suburban existence.

The suits are Pentacles (dishes), Swords ( knives), Cups (glasses) and Wands (brooms and mops).