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Montag, 8. April 2013

Fortuna's Wheel Tarot

Creator(s): Nigel Jackson
Date: 2007
Country: United Kingdom

Publisher: Adam McLean
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:   

Type: Mixed
Reference:
Adam McLean








Notes:
Nigel Jackson is an artist, symbolist and esotericist known for his Medieval Enchantment Tarot produced in 2000.  His Fortuna's Wheel Tarot is in the same style with detailed pen drawing and luminous glowing colours.

My copy is number 88 of a limited, numbered, signed edition of 100.

A book for this deck is published seperately and can be found here.

Mittwoch, 13. Februar 2013

Margarete Petersen Tarot

Creator(s): Margarete Petersen
Date:
2001, 2004
Country:
Germany
Publisher:
Königsfurt Urania
Number of Cards:
78
ISBN:
978-3-898756273 

Type: Mixed
Reference:
Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol.III, pp. 421, 425




Notes:
Margarete Petersen is a Berlin based painter who began painting Tarot cards in 1979. It took her about twenty years to complete the deck.

There are feminine undertones in Margarete Petersen's imagery but there is no apparent fundamentalist feminism.

Some of the Major Arcana have been renamed: The Magician/Magic, The Chariot/Chariotess, The Hermit/The Crone, The Hanged Man/Trial, Temperance/Mediatrix, and Judgment/Renewal. The Court Cards are Mother, Father, Daughter, and Son. The suits are Flames, Cups, Feathers, and Coins.

The cards are large (3 3/4" by 5 1/2"). The reversible backs have an orange pattern. The deck and accompanying LWB come as a set in a box with a lift-off top.

Dali Tarot


Creator(s): Salvador Dali
Date:
1984, 2004
Country:
Germany
Publisher:
Königsfurt Urania
Number of Cards:
78
ISBN:
978-3-898756433   
 
Type: Mixed
Reference:
Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol.III, pp 578, 580-581





Notes:
This deck was first published by Distribucions d’Art Surrealista and Comos Naipes of Spain in 1984. It consists of collage compositions which incorporate the works of other artists. Amanda Lear claimed to have assisted Dali in the completition of the collages.

Dali adds his own touch to each design by using washes of color and semi-abstract shapes and adding his abstract signature onto the cards, incorporating them into each design.

The Major Arcana bear German titles on top and Spanish titles below and are numbered I through XXI from the Magician to the World. Justice is numbered VIII and Strength is XI.

Hebrew letters are assigned to the cards starting with Aleph at the Magician through Resh at Judgment, and Tau is assigned to The World. The Fool is unnumbered and has the Hebrew letter Shin.  Planetary and Zodiacal associations are somewhat different from those usually found.


The four suit emblems are painted into the designs. Wands are painted as green staves with small leafs,  Swords are depicted as blue double-edged broadswords, Cups are painted as yellow lotus-patterned chalices and Coins are illustrated as flat disks of yellow with  pentagrams.

The Court Cards are titled in Spanish. The Suits Bastos, Copas, Espadas and Oros refer to Staffs, Cups, Swords and Discs, respectively. And the Court Cards Sota, Caballero, Reina and Rey are Page, Knight, Queen and King.  

Samstag, 2. Februar 2013

Röhrig Tarot

Creator(s): Carl Röhrig
Date:
2010
Country:
Germany
Publisher:
Königsfurt Urania
Number of Cards:
78
ISBN:
978-3-86826-527-9   
 
Type: Mixed
Reference:
Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol.IV, pp. 494, 497







Notes:
Röhrig created the 78 tarot pictures from 1990-1992. The first German edition of the tarot deck was published in 1993 by Aquamarin Verlag. It came with a book by Francesca Marzano-Fritz. In the first edition the Hanged Man and the Princess of Cups show genitalia. In all later editions they wear panties.

Mine was the 2010 edition, which came with a book by ROE & Kirsten Buchholzer. The cards are large size, 90 x 162 mm and, despite looking like a collage, they are created using an air brush technique. The artist included sketches and writing on the cards—mostly on lined notebook paper renderings, but also on the component images themselves to incorporate keywords and foreign language titles.

Each of the Major Arcana cards depicts a Hebrew letter, astrological glyph, and rune symbol. These are explained in the accompanying book. The Major Arcana have elements of RWS : Strength remains in position VIII and Justice in position XI; there is Temperance instead of Art, and The Judgment instead of The Aeon — although The Magus does not change to The Magician.

The suits are Disks, Swords, Cups, and Wands, with the Court titles following the Princess, Prince, Queen, and Knight tradition. At the top of each fully illustrated Minor Arcana card, the suit name is displayed in light gray,  while the keyword is superimposed in dark black. For the most part, the Minor Arcana share the same names as the Thoth Tarot, i.e. the Five of Cups is Disappointment, the Nine of Wands is Strength.

The backs are non-reversible, and depict a surreal image of water or space in blues, violet, and silver.

Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013

Tarot de Paris

Creator(s): Unknown
Date:
1625*, 1984
Country:
France
Publisher:
Grimaud
Number of Cards:
78
ISBN:
 
 
Type: Mixed
Reference:
Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 410, 420








Notes:
The author of the Tarot de Paris is unknown. On the 2 and 4 of Coins, and the 2 and 3 of Cups appears an incomplete reference that reads ·FAICT·A·PARIS·PAR· ("made in Paris by"). There are empty spaces reserved for the name of the maker but it is  missing.

The original deck is housed in a collection at The Bibliothèque Nationale. Under the direction of André Dimanche it was reprinted by Grimaud in 1984 as a not numbered limited edition. Dimanche has written a historically detailed essay for this deck’s booklet.

The original images were woodblock printed and stencil colored. The checker pattern borders  simulate the technique used in Italy in which the back papers were folded over the edges of a card. The Parisian cardmaker also  used the Italian suits of cups, curved swords, cudgels and coins.

The trumps have French titles at the bottom, but their spelling is sometimes strange e.g. LE PANDUT for LE PENDU, LA TREMPANCE for LA TEMPERANCE. The Tarot de Paris follows the numbering of the Tarot de Marseilles. Some of the card designs are clearly related to the TdM, but many have unique imagery or are related to other decks. Some of the details in the facsimile version published by Grimaud is difficult to see clearly, because the colours used in the original have darkened obscuring some of the lines.

Unlike in any other tarot known, the Aces feature the suit sign on a large flag held by a lion (Coins), a deer (Cups), a griffon (Batons) and an unicorn (Swords). This was probably influenced by German hunting decks, which often  have very similar flags appearing on the 10s of all suits . Another oddity is, that they are named 'AR' instead of 'AS'.


Freitag, 11. Januar 2013

Crystal Tarot

Creator(s): Elisabetta Trevisian
Date: 2001
Country: Italy
Publisher:
Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards:
78
ISBN:
978-0738700588   
Type:
Mixed
Reference: aeclectic
Notes:
This is the 78 card edition of a tarot, which was first published as a 22-card art deck, the Tarocchi di Vetro. The minors in the 78-card edition are a re-working of card designs originally by Eudes Picards.The Crystal Tarot is influenced by both the Rider-Waite and Thoth Tarot decks.

Wands are Fire and Coins are Earth, but Cups are Air and Swords are Water.The art is tempera paints on glass. The use of patterns within patterns gives depth to the traditional pictures of the Tarot.

Sonntag, 6. Januar 2013

Circle of Life Tarot

Creator(s): Maria Distefano, Pietro Alligo, Alessandro Starrantino 
Date: 2008
Country: Italy
Publisher:
Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards:
78
ISBN:
978-8883957888   
Type:
Mixed
Reference: aeclectic 



Notes:
The Circle of Life Tarot cards are illustrated by Pietro Alligo and Alessandro Starrantino. It is the first circular deck issued by Italian card publisher Lo Scarabeo.

The pictures are filled with different characters such as fairies, insects, mythical creatures, elves, nymphs, half human-half beast type characters.

The art is watercolor, the names of the cards (in 6 languages) flowing along the borders.

The LWB gives some  information about the tradition of round tarot cards, in this case to illustrate the cycles of life and also goes on to discuss the symbolism of circles according to different cultures. The multi-lingual booklet then includes a sentence or two about the meaning of each card .

Freitag, 4. Januar 2013

TCF Collaborative Deck 2012

Creator(s): Collaboration
Date: 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher:
Tarot Collectors Forum
Number of Cards:
22+1
ISBN:
   
Type:
Mixed
Reference:
Tarot Collectors Forum



 
Notes:
The TCF deck is not meant for sale, there is one deck for each participant, one deck for the forums host Adam McLean and one for the "Museo dei Tarocchi".

The deck has an extra "Happy Squirrel Card"

I did The Chariot and Justice.
 

Sonntag, 30. September 2012

Tarot de Jaques Vieville (Flornoy)

Creator(s): Jaques Vieville, Jean-Claude Flornoy
Date: 1650*, 2012
Country: France

Publisher: Jean-Claude Flornoy
Number of Cards: 2 x 22
ISBN: 978-2914-820110   

Type: Mixed
Reference:  tarot-history








Notes:

The deck  was made around 1650 in Paris by cardmaker Jacques Viéville, who was active from 1643 to 1664. The technique used by Viéville for the making of this tarot was woodblock prints, coloured by means of stencils.

The Tarot of  Viéville was created in the same time and place as the Jean Noblet Tarot, but is quite different. Many cards do match the cards in the Tarot of Marseilles tradition but the Tarot of Jacques Viéville seems to also be related to  the "Belgian Tarot", the "Tarocco Bolognese", and The "Ferrara" Tarots.

The Tarot of Viéville has no titles on the cards and the numbers seem as if they were added to the cards images and forced into place in available space rather than as part of the design. Nearly all the subjects of Viéville's tarot look towards the opposite direction faced by the ones of Marseille,  the engraver for Viéville presumably "copied" this tarot in reverse, using the "right" side of an old printed sheet as model. This edition of the Viéville majors presents them as they appear in the original deck and includes a mostly reversed option as well.

Mittwoch, 19. September 2012

The Fialko Tarot

Creator(s): Jeff Fialko
Date: 2012
Country: United Kingdom

Publisher: Adam McLean
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:   

Type: Mixed
Reference:
Adam McLean

Notes:
Jeff Fialko is an American artist and musician. The deck is painted with ink and watercolor in a sort of Marvel-Comic-Style. Some card images have more elements of RWS (Magician / High Priestess) others more of Marseilles (Sun / Lovers). The numbering with Justice at VII and Strength at XI is Marseilles. The cards are numbered but without title.

It is a signed and numbered limited edition of 50, mine is number 35. The Fialko Tarot is number 24 of Adam McLean's "Art Tarots" series. This deck is made cheaper than the earlier editions, the cards are without lamination, there are no card backs printed and it has no custom made but a transparent acetate box.

Samstag, 8. September 2012

HEXEN2.0 Tarot

Creator(s): Suzanne Treister
Date: 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Publisher: black dog publishing
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 978-1-907317-65-1
Type: Mixed
Reference: black dog publishing





Notes:
Suzanne Treister’s HEXEN2.0 project is an expansive cross-media investigation into the interwoven histories of government mass control systems, technological and scientific discovery, behavioural theory and countercultural movements, and diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to advances in technology such as the rise of cybernetics and the Internet.

HEXEN2.0 takes as its starting point the seminal Macy Conferences, New York, 1946–53, whose primary goal was to set the foundations for a general science of the workings of the human mind.


It is hard to recognize at the first glance, but the basic structure of this deck is traditional tarot such as RWS or Thot.

The cards have traditional titles and numbering. The Minor Arcana are split into traditional suits of 14 cards each and consist of: Chalices, Pentacles, Wands and Swords. The Court cards are represented by a mix of individuals, text, organisations and abstract ideas.

The cards are big (94 mm x 150 mm). There is no LWB included but there exists a seperate book.

The images are also related to the traditional tarot. For example The Empress. Traditionally she is a mother earth type figure who gives birth to many things. In Treister’s deck she is represented not by herself but by her offspring, namely a plethora of investigative agencies like FBI and CIA.

It's not every day that you you get Nikola Tesla,  H.P. Lovecraft, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Unabomber, Ada Lovelace, William Blake, Alan Turing and William Gibson together in the same tarot deck.

Langustl Tarot

Creator(s): Stephan Lange ("Langustl")
Date: 2008
Country: Germany
Publisher: self-published
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 
Type: mixed
Reference: langustl

Notes:
Unlike many self-published decks, the Langustl Tarot isn’t handmade or homemade – the cards have been professionally printed, cut and boxed. The cards are  printed in 8cm by 15cm, big enough to see the texture of the paper and the acrylic paint. They are surrounded by thin grey borders, titling is basic, with roman numerals on the majors and a number and suit symbol on the minors.

The cards are non-traditional in imagery but traditional in titling,ordered in the European style - Justice is VIII and Strength is XI – and using the standard Rider-Waite suits of Wands, Swords, Cups and Pentacles. The backs have a reversible check pattern with a grey line-drawn flower.

The artist tried to find the common foundation in the works of Waite and Crowley, and the disparate systems of numerology, Kabbalah and astrology. He pulls these together in his paintings, the tarot scenes in close focus with an emphasis on shapes and colours and the major elements of the cards, rather than realism or fine detail.

The cards are unusual in that they only feature people on the court cards - the majors and pip cards use hand gestures and colour instead of body language but convey the meaning just as effectively. The colours are roughly analogous across the suits; swords use cool colours; pentacles lively primary colours; cups purples and pinks; wands are red/orange.

The set includes the 78 tarot cards, a title card,  a  card signed by the artist and 32-page booklet in German and English.

Montag, 9. April 2012

Wormweird Tarot


Creator(s): George Highham 
Date: 2008
Country:
USA
Publisher:
eos press
Number of cards:
79
ISBN:
978-0-9710642-5-6
Type:
Mixed
Reference:
poepuppet






Notes:
The deck comes as a set with 80 cards including: 22 Trumps, 40 Suit Cards, 16 Court Cards, Title Card and a Wild Card. The set includes a 38 page book called “The Wormweird Codex or, The Anatomy of the Damned”.

All cards are numbered or titled and include a border that is colored according to Major Arcana or Suit. Court cards are associated with colors and each has its own emblem in the bottom corner.The card backs are black and lime green with a silhouette of skeletal angel-type figure hanging by the neck from a thorny branch. Justice is numbered 8 so Strength is 11.

There are some changes to titling of Major Arcana including: The Alchemist (The Magician) ; The Scream (Strength) ; The Wormwood Devil (The Devil). The additional Wild Card is called "Baron Alchymus".The court cards are renamed as Lord (King), Lady (Queen), Knight ( Knight), Fetus (Page). The suits are Nails (Coins/Pentacles - Earth), Shadows (Wands - Air), Flames (Swords - Fire) and Absinthe ( Cups - Water).

This deck uses real artistic sets. For each card the Author built wax figures, sets and with the use of his camera, mirrors and smoke created the image. He did not alter or digitally enhance the pictures.


Mary-El Tarot

Creator(s): Marie White
Date: 2012
Country: USA
Publisher: Schiffer Books
Number of cards: 78
ISBN: 978-0-7643-4061-1
Type: Mixed
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, p. 119








Notes:
The name Mary-el came from a contraction of Mary, a name often used for the feminine god principle, and also the root of the artists name Marie, and El an ancient Semitic name for God. The cards are created as traditional oil paints.

The main concept behind this deck is achieving a balance between male and female energies. The alchemical interaction (coming together, merging, dividing, etc.) between opposing forces permeated the whole deck.

Mary-el Tarot is clearly inspired by the Crowley Harris Thoth. Justice is numbered as Key 8 and the suits are Wands, Cups, Swords and Discs. The Court follows the RWS standard, with Pages, Knights, Queens and Kings. Not all Court cards picture an individual human, and the pip cards do not include suit icons. The traditional archetypal images that is associated with Tarot are not present in the Mary-el Tarot. It would be difficult to figure out which card was which without seeing its name.

In the 192 page companion book – “Landscapes of the Abys”, the cards are presented with black and white scans, a discussion of the card, and the imagery used, upright and reversed keywords, and traditional divinatory meanings.

White started creating these cards in 1997, self-published the Major Arcana in 2003 and 2012 it is finally being released by Schiffer Books.

Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2012

Heiri Steiner Tarot

Creator(s): Heiri Steiner, Mary Steiner-Geringer
Date:
1968
Country:
Switzerland
Publisher:
Rene Simmen, Zürich 
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:

Type:
Mixed
Reference:
Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, p. 491,492







Notes:
The cards are basically Marseilles Type with a bit influence by the Papus. The images look  a lot like children's drawings. The backs are not reversible. The cards have Roman nubers, German titles and Hebrew letters on the top.

The deck is accompanied by the book 'Das Tarot: Die Welt als Spiel' (The Tarot: The World as a Game) by Mary Steiner-Geringer, which also includes an essay by Sergius Golowin.


The book is in German, it has a chapter on each card and additional chapters on tarot and the zodiac, tarot and kabbalah as well as a lot of suggestions for spreads.

The tarot deck and the book are wrapped in a red cardboard box.

Book of Kaos

Creator(s): Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule
Date:
2004
Country:
Australia
Publisher:
self-publishedNumber of Cards: 80
ISBN:
Type: Mixed
Reference:
Aeclectic Tarot





Notes:
The deck was originally titled, 'The Bohemian Tarot' and the Major and Minor Arcana sets were published seperately as A5 limited-edition (100 copies) folios around 1991 ( as 'Tribal Tarot' in Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 195-196).

The 2001 Limited Edition, the completed 'BOOK of ChAOS Tarot Deck' , was published as a whole. The 111 copies sold within 6 months. The title changed from the 'ChAOS' of that edition to the 'KAOS' in the 2004 edition.

From the first edition 1991 to the 2004 edition about half of the major arcana have been redrawn, while most of the minors remain unchanged.

There are actually 24 major arcana cards, as there are two differing Lovers cards, and two Devil cards, one with Pan and one with Baphomet. Some titles of the Majors have been altered to a more Thoth-like titling

Dienstag, 7. Februar 2012

Gareth Knight Tarot

Creator(s): Gareth Knight, Sander Littel
Date: 1984, reprint 1985
Country: USA
Publisher: US Games / ASS
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:
Type: Mixed
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 595, 600-601





Notes:


Influenced by Crowley Harris and by Golden Dawn decks

There are no Knights, the court figures -king, queen, prince and princess- balance male and female personages.

Cat People Tarot

Creator(s): Karen Kuykendall
Date: 1985, reprint 1995
Country: USA
Publisher: US Games / Urania
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 2-908646-50-2
Type: Mixed
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 572, 574-575









Notes:

The deck is set in a fantasy world divided into five kingdoms. Vapala , the diamond kingdom, is the Major Arcana. Its people are called the Sky People. The suit of swords is Thnossis, the ruby kingdom, home of the Fire People. Twahihic, suit of wands, is the Emerald Kingdom, home of the Sand People. Azenghir, suit of cups, the Topaz Kingdom, is home to the Salt People.

The card images have influences from both Marseilles and RWS patterns.