Tarot de las Hadas (Zarzuela)

Creator(s): Alejandra Ramirez Zarzuela, Sandra Aguilar Latorre
Date: 2006
Country: Spain
Publisher: Libsa
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 84-662-1285-X   
Type: other
Reference:

Notes:
Tarot de las Hadas is Spanish for Tarot of the Fairies. Alejandra Ramirez Zarzuela is a published author and illustrator of children's books, who had done a lot of books on fairies.

Most of the majors, including Death and Devil, are female. Only The Emperor (El Rey Dagda) and The Hierophant (El druida) are male.

The titles of the majors are non standard, the minors are pips. The suits are color coded and the illustrations on the court cards match the corresponding element of the suit.

It is a deck suitable for children, completely without violence, even death and devil are represented by beautiful fairies.

Boxed set containing a deck of 78 tarot cards and a 192 page softcover book in Spanish with a lot of full-color illustrations.

Tarot (Bayless / Jarosz)

Creator(s): Laura Bayless, Katharina Jarosz
Date: 2006
Country: Germany
Publisher: Area
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-3899964011   
Type: Marseilles
Reference: albideuter






 
Notes:
Each  Major has a title in German at the top and a Roman number at the bottom. Most of the figures look like elves, some have animal heads.

The Minors are pips, they depict the appropriate number of the suit symbol, no title and a number at the top.

The cards are borderless with rounded corners and came as a set with a small hardcover book in German.

Tarot of the Sidhe (McLean Edition)

Creator(s): Emily Carding
Date: 2006
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: Adam McLean
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN: 
Type: other
Reference:  Adam McLean








Notes:
The Majors only edition of the Tarot of the Sidhe is "Art Tarots Number 5" from Adam McLean's Artwork Tarot Series. There also exists a mass market full 78-card version by Schiffer. 

These is a limited edition of 100 copies, mine is number 40. The borders are smaller than in the 78-card version, and it has a different back design.

Marie-Claude Purro Tarot

Creator(s): Marie-Claude Purro
Date: 2006
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: Adam McLean
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN: 
Type: Marseilles
Reference: artist's page

Notes:
Marie-Claude Purro is a self-taught artist, who was born on in 1962 in Fribourg, Switzerland. 1993-1994 she lived in Portugal, where she painted the 22 major arcana of the Tarot, which she exhibited in the little town of Praia de Mira, as well as, upon her return to Switzerland, at the "Espace Galerie Placette" and at the "Café des Grand-Places".

The cards are 4 1/8" (10.5 cm) high * 3" (7.5 cm) wide. It is a borderless deck with non reversible backs.

Limited edition of 100 copies, mine is number 83.

Universal Tarot of Marseilles

Creator(s): Claude Burdel, Lee Bursten
Date: 1751*, 2006
Country: Switzerland*, Italy
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-0-7387-1041-9 
Type: Marseilles
Reference: aeclectic

Notes:
The Universal Marseille Tarot is based on a Swiss deck created in 1751 by  Claude Burdel, retaining the woodcat look but recolored. The card images have thick black line-work, filled in with a rendered, smooth blend of colour.

The Trumps show the number centered at the top in Roman numerals. The outer white border on the faces of the cards also contains titles in six languages on the trumps and court cards . The Pips  show the number in small Roman numerals at the bottom of the card. 

In the LWB Bursten presents the 3 X 7 theory, based on Plato's theory of the soul being divided into three parts: The Soul of Desire, The Soul of Will, and The Soul of Reason. Trumps I-VII represent the Soul of Desire, Trumps VIII-XIV represent The Soul of Will, and Trumps XV-XXI represent The Soul of Reason. Cards I-V represent worldly powers. Along with the LWB, there also is a full book by Lee Bursten. 

Thoth Tarot

Creator(s): Aleister Crowley, Frieda Harris
Date: 1944*, 1996, 2006
Country: USA
Publisher: US Games
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-0-88079-308-7 
Type: Thoth
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 152, 157 

Notes:
Crowley referred to this deck as The Book of Thoth, and also wrote a book of that title intended for use with the deck. Crowley originally planned the Thoth deck to be a six-month project aimed at updating the traditional pictorial symbolism of the tarot. However, the project was to span five years, between 1938 and 1943. The deck was not published in the lifetimes of either Aleister Crowley or Lady Frieda Harris, the deck was only available as illustrations in Crowley's book from a limited edition of 200 copies -dated March 21 , 1944 - that Lady Frieda Harris herself had printed.

The first full publication -of inferior quality- was by Samuel Weiser  in 1969; There was another limited edition of 250  of equal poor quality in the same year by Ordo Templi Orientis / Simpson printing company. That edition was also known as the Sangreal One-Color-Tarot. The illustrations were photographed from  copy 105 of the  limited edition and printed on blue ink on the front and red ink on the backs. In 1977 Harris' paintings were rephotographed for a second edition. A further update with new photography took place in 1986, while this "Purple Box"- edition is based on a revision of the update and was first printed in 1996 and reprinted 2006. The deck comes in a standard cardboard box, showing the Two of Pentacles card surrounded by a purple border.

Card suit ("Trumps" for the majors) printed in large, light letters, with card title (majors, courts) or keyword (minors) superimposed in dark, small-size type. Titles on the majors are flanked by a Hebrew letter on the left, and an alchemical or astrological symbol on the right. This is the only edition that still retains the inclusion of the three variants of the "Magus" card. The LWB was edited and updated by Lynn Araujo, and includes two essays written by Lady Frieda Harris, along with commentary by Stuart R. Kaplan.

Traditional titles are used for the Trumps (Major Arcana), with the following exceptions: Magus (Magician), Adjustment (Justice), Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune), Lust (Strength), Art (Temperance), and Aeon (Judgment). The four suits are Wands, Cups, Swords, and Disks. The Court Cards are Knight, Queen, Prince and Princess.  The minors do not contain illustrated scenes as in the Rider Waite Smith style. The  image on the card backs is that of the Rose Cross, surrounded by a white border.  Within this cross is represented all 78 cards of the Tarot. The artwork itself shows the influence of both art deco and projective geometry (Rudolf Steiner) instead of the usual straight or curved lines.

Rotin Tarot

Creator(s): Peter Rotin
Date: 2006
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: Adam McLean
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN: 
Type: other
Reference:  Adam McLean

Notes:
The Rotin Tarot is "Art Tarots Number 8" from Adam McLean's Artwork Tarot Series. It has 22 minimalistic cards that work with the polarities and dark and light.

The Rotin Tarot contains black and white line drawings in ink, pencil and pen surrounded by a thin black border line. A double box at the bottom of each card contains the card name followed with the appropriate Trumps number. The cards follow the generally accepted Marseilles numbering system (Justice 8 and Strength 11) with no number  printed on “The Fool” card. The card backs are an evenly split black and white diagonal that would indicate a reversed card. 


Comment on the Fool by the artist:

 "I was always fascinated by the fact that The Fool is unnumbered, giving it a certain ambiguity in the flow of the Tarot. A couple of years back when I was studying the Tarot, I came about a book on numbers and another on buddhism about the importance of the discovery of the number zero by human kind and the importance of the concept of emptiness for buddhists. It was quite revealing at the time and helped me piece many thought processes together. What I tried to do with the front card was simply that. 
 
There are 21 cards drawn on the card but the card in itself is another card, becoming the 22nd one. It exists when the other 21 exist, a concept of buddhist interbeing. 

The Fool is the most important card in the deck, it is the beginning, the end, and the reference point of all the other cards. Like the number zero, it has no apparent value unless one is ready to understand that without nothing you cannot have something, that emptiness is the root of all being. "

RoniTarot

Creator(s): Ronit Hartmann (Ronit Wolf)
Date: 2006
Country: Germany
Publisher: Arun
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN: 3-86663-002-4 
Type: RWS
Reference:  albideuter






Notes:
Titles und numbering are traditional. Some  traditional male figures, as death, fool, magician, devil and chariot are female in this deck. The RoniTarot came in a box with a LWB in German  and a spreadsheet. 

Le Tarot des Imagiers du Moyen Age - Tchou edition

Creator(s): Oswald Wirth
Date: 1926, 2006
Country: Switzerland, Canada
Publisher: Tchou
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN: 978-2-7107-0728-8
Type: Papus-Wirth
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. I, p. 286








Notes:
Oswald Wirth was a Swiss occultist and kabbalist (1860-1943). He drew his first version of the 22 major arcana cards in 1889, basing them on the Tarot of Marseilles and other decks of the time. These cards were used to illustrate Le Tarot des Bohemiens by Papus. Wirth redrew his cards shortly thereafter, but the revised deck was not published until 1926 along with a book on the cards called Le Tarot des imagiers du moyen-age in 1927.

This rendition of Oswald Wirth's majors, included with a French Canadian edition of Wirth's book Le Tarot: des Imagiers du Moyen Age was first published in 1966 and in many editions since then. Mine is a 2006 photoreprint of the edition Sand 1984

The style is similar to that of the Marseille, with some changes Wirth made based on the writings of Eliphas Levi. Each card except Death has a Hebrew letter in the lower right corner, but Wirth does not use the Golden Dawn assignments. In Wirth’s system Aleph is assigned to The Magician, vice The Fool. The letters continue to be assigned in order until card 20. Wirth then assigns Shin to The Fool and Tau to The World. Death does not have a name or Hebrew letter on the bottom, though it is numbered 13 the top. There are very few Tarot writers who use this assignment of the Hebrew letters ( Wirth's Tarot of the Magicians, Papus' Tarot of the Bohemians, Mouni Sadhu's The Tarot and Elisabeth Haich's Wisdom of the Tarot )

Aquarian Tarot (US Games)

Creator(s): David Palladini
Date: 1970, reprint 2006
Country: USA
Publisher: US Games
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-0-913866-69-6
Type: RWS
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. I, pp. 229, 230

Notes:
The Aquarian Tarot Deck was first published by Morgan Press in 1970. It is now printed by AG Müller and distributed by US Games.

Palladini combined the symbols of the traditional Tarot with more modern, updated images in a combination of Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles.

The deck has a title card, a card with biographical information and came with a lwb.

Tarocchi di Connessione

Creator(s): Jessica Angiulli (Vocisconesse) 
Date: 2006
Country: Italy
Publisher: Museo dei Tarocchi, Hermatena
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:
Type: other
Reference: Museo dei Tarocchi







Notes:

Limited edition of 500 signed and numbered copies.

Many of the cards, which are numbered and titled both in Italian and English are renamed. Thus the Empress becomes Re-generating, the Emperor - Cultivating, the Chariot is renamed Direction, Judgment is Conscience and so on.

“Tarocchi di connessione” means “connection tarot” and emphasize the idea of “connecting” figures, symbols, meanings, events, thoughts, memories…that is inside TAROT, and also a peculiarity of visual language through images/pictures: putting together images and figures forming properly created to form a system of interactive meanings.
This is a personal interpretation of the 22 Major Arcana, with dreamy, symbolic, surreal, pagan, magical, mythical influences.

-Vocisconnesse

Tarot of the Renaissance

Creator(s): Giorgio Trevisian
Date: 1995 , mini 2006
Country: Italy
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-8883955907
Type: mini
Reference: Aeclectic Tarot









Notes:
Expanded, fully illustrated, 78-card edition of Trevisian's i Tarocchi Lanzichenecchi.