Mathematics Tarot

Creator(s): Karen West
Date: 2012
Country: Canada
Publisher: self-published
Number of Cards: 78+3
ISBN: 
Type: other
Reference: artist's page

Notes:
The deck was compiled from public domain and creative-commons diagrams available to the public. The Mathematics Tarot interprets the tarot archetypes through the lens of mathematics and physics. It came with three extra cards (The Mathematician, Möbius and The Empty Set).

Mine was number 40 of a limited edition of 50 copies. The cards are Poker-sized (2.5 by 3.5 inches) and the Handbook can be downloaded here

Lazy Afternoon Tarot

Creator(s): Karen West

Date:  2012
Country: Canada
Publisher: self-published
Number of Cards: 80
ISBN:    
Type: RWS
Reference: artist's website
 







Notes:
The Majors of the Lazy Afternoon Tarot were created in 2008 and the Minors in 2010. All the images were done in 5-10 minutes with markers on glossy cardstock.

The Lazy Afternoon Tarot is consisting of 80 cards, a full set of majors and minors with two extra Lovers cards. Each deck comes with a handmade cotton bag, the deck's story, and a card with the deck's number (mine is 44 out of 50).

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 )