Samiramay Tarot

Creator(s): Vera Petruk
Date: 2017
Country: Russia
Publisher: self-published
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:
Type: other
Reference: 









Notes:
This Tarot deck was created by the Russian illustrator Vera Petruk, who uses the alias Samiramay. There is another Tarot,  The Old Memories Tarot, by the same creator, which uses the same images for the Majors but different ones for the Minors. It also has different backs and a different border and isn't fully colored like this one.

The images are done in watercolors, liners and pencils. The cards are made look vintage with horizontal rippled stripes. It's a self-published deck, that is printed on demand and can be ordered on makeplayingcards.com. It's cards only, they are  shrink wrapped without box or bag.

Each card has zodiac and alchemy related symbols on it. The Minors are pips with a number at the center surrounded by symbols . Each suit has has a token image, which is displayed on the Minors. The suit of Wands shows a salamander, Cups display a set of three leaves, Swords has a violett flower and Pentacles come with a snake.


The Majors have the  usual number in yellow, most times (but not always) at the top center, additional they have most times (but not always) a Hebrew letter in the upper right corner and the corresponding numerical value of the Hebrew letter in the upper left corner. The astrological attributions in the Majors aren't compatible with the Golden Dawn system, but since there comes no booklet with it there is no explanation for the artist's choice.

The backs show a pattern with the Star of David and are not reversible.

Le Tarot Magique

Creator(s): Frédéric Lionel
Date: 1980, 1982
Country: Germany
Publisher: Aurum 
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN: 3-59108179-5    
Type: other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp.329-332



 




Notes:
Frédéric Lionel was a prolific writer on philosophical and esoteric subjects. His  cards were originally published in 1980 by the French publishing house Editions du Rocher to accompany the book Le Tarot Magique. In 1982, the German publisher Aurum issued the cards with a German edition of Lionel 's book, entitled Das Spiel der Spiele: Tarot.

The Roman numerals in the upper left-hand corner represent the symbolic quality of the card, while Arabic numerals in the upper right-hand corner indicate the cards' representative stages along the path of initiation. Neither numbering system follows traditional tarot numbering.

Most of the cards have the conventional titles (exeptions are The Divine Mistress / The Master instead of High Priestess / Hierophant and Serenity replacing Strength).The artwork is abstract and geometrical, consisting of line drawings with some regions coloured with watercolour.

The images as a composition look like the sigils found in magical manuscripts. They are constructed from various elements. There are a number of Egyptian images, like the eye of Ra or the Ankh, also appearing are the Chinese Ying-Yang, astrological signs, constellations and planets.The design of each card represents an abstraction of the idea of each arcana.

Tarot de Alma Ajo

Creator(s): Alma Ajo
Date: 2010
Country: Spain
Publisher: self-published 
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:    
Type: other
Reference: artist's page

Notes:
The art is a combination of surrealistic paintings and collage. The cards are numbered, Strength is 8, Justice 11, the titles are in Spanish. The deck came without book or lwb.

The deck exists in a standard version and as hand-colored version. The hand-colored decks have  paint and glitter applied to make each deck unique. There are 20 decks of each version. Mine is number 6 from the standard version.

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 of the Curious East

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




Notes:
The cards are landscape format and have traditional titles. Strength is 8, Justice 11.

The images contain elements from a variety of Asian mythos.

The Tarot of the Curious East was featured on the Tarot Lovers Calendar 2011.

It is a signed and numbered limited edition of 50 copies. Mine is number 48.

Tarot Rikit

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

Notes:
"Rikit" means "pretty" in the Tagalog language of the Philippines. The deck features Southeast Asian themes, influenced by Austronesian, Indian, Chinese, and even Moslem cultures - with main focus on  Indo-Malay-Filipino indigenous feel. The cards have traditional titles and are not numbered.

This majors only deck is a signed and numbered limited edition of 50 copies, mine is number 48.

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.

Elemental Tarot (Smith)

Creator(s): Caroline Smith, John Astorp
Date: 1988
Country: USA
Publisher: Dolphin Doubleday
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN: 0-385-24726-5   
Type: other
Reference:  Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. III, pp. 193, 194




Notes:
John Astrop is an astrologer and writer, and Caroline Smith is a painter and tarot reader. The Elemental Tarot fits a system of astrological combinations to the 78 cards of the Tarot. The card designs are vertically divided at the point of the golden section.

There are several symbols printed within the borders of each card. The suits are renamed. Earth refers to pentacles, air to swords, fire to wands, and water to cups. The corresponding elements are symbolized at the bottom by one of five geometric shapes. These five shapes are actually the Tattwa symbols. The Trumps are noted by an egg shape which corresponds to Spirit, the suit of Fire by a red triangle, Air by a blue circle, Water by a silver moon, and Earth by a green square.

Each card is also assigned a pair of planets which is meant to give additional meanings. This system of correspondences does not use the twelve zodiacal signs, but instead uses the ten planets, the midheaven, the ascendant, and Moon's node. The total pair combinations possible equal seventy-eight.

The Major Arcana are titled at the top, and have a descriptive keyword at the bottom. Some retain their traditional titles, such as The Sun, The Star and The Fool, others have been renamed, the Magician, for example,  is called the Trickster, it is the Pope instead of High Priest, and Aeon instead of the World. Within the side margins are lines from a Gnostic poem titled The Thunder, Perfect Mind. This text was one of several documents comprising the Nag Hammadi discovery in 1945.

Each Minor Arcana card is titled with an elemental based keyword and includes the name of a god or goddess from a variety of cultures at the bottom. The symbols found in the lower left margin of the Minor Arcana are Egyptian  hieroglyphs.

The court cards are Father, Mother, Son and Daughter and correspond to the traditional King, Queen, Knight and Page.

This is the first edition from 1988, which has sturdy slipcase packaging which houses a boxed set of cards and a hardbound book.The later edition by St.Martin'sPress in 1999 is of inferior quality.

Blue Moon Tarot

Creator(s): Julie Cuccia-Watts
Date: 2004
Country: USA
Publisher: self-published
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN: 0-9755510-0-0   
Type: other
Reference:  Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 248, 249




Notes:
The Blue Moon Tarot started as a moon calendar project in 1999 that Julie Cuccia-Watts was commissioned to do by Janet Berres and Ron Losczyk of the Light of the Moon occult bookstore. What evolved was a Pagan calendar based on the twelve full moons of the year and the thirteenth full moon, the Blue Moon.

In 2000 the  images were published as the first edition of the Blue Moon Tarot. That edition was printed on a laser printer and hand cut and glued to a sturdy cardstock. Mine is  from the second edition in 2004, which was printed by a commercial printer. The backs are blank. The second edition has rounded corners (the first had square corners).

This is a signed and numbered edition of 1000 decks. The cards came without a box and with a LWB. At the end of the book is the Blue Moon Tarot System Guide. This is a graphic, done in mandala format, that shows the relationship of the cards to the seasons and to the zodiac.

Tarots Universels

Creator(s): Segio Toppi
Date: 1991
Country: Italy
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:   
Type: other
Reference:  Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 570, 571








Notes:
Sergio Toppi (1932-2012) was an Italian illustrator and comic-strip artist

The original edition of the Tarocchi Universali from 1988 was limited and numbered; this is a later, smaller-format edition that is not officially released as a limited edition.

The deck has Italian titles. It included a title card, a card with a poem and came with two little leaflets in Italian only. The double-ended back design shows the bird from the Magician card.

Graphik Tarocchi

Creator(s): Zoltán Tamássi
Date: 1992
Country: Italy
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:   
Type: other
Reference:  Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 367, 370

Notes:
Zoltán Tamássi (1912-1997) was an important poster artist and graphic designer. In 1945 Tamássi was one of the leading graphic artists who renewed the visual language of the political poster in Hungary. He designed election campaign posters for opposite parties, like the Peasants’ Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Hungarian Communist Party. Tamássi was initially the propagandist of the Peasants’ Party, but he was commissioned by other political parties as well.

The art for this deck was rendered in tempura. Each card is titled in Italian and includes a poem by Gianni Brunoro. The reversable red and white back design shows a hand surrounded by the alphabet.

I Tarocchi dei Colori

Creator(s): Elena Assante
Date: 1991
Country: Italy
Publisher: Italcards
Number of Cards: 78
ISBN:
Type: other
Reference: Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 279, 284

 

Notes:
Limited edition of 3,000 copies. All cards are titled in Italian as well as in English, Spanish, French and German. The deck includes a title card and a card describing in Italian the artistic conception. Mine came with  an additional explanation sheet in German.

Bold areas of color form minimalistic figures and objects. The back design is wavy stripes in various colors.

Italcards stopped producing playing cards around 1993. The most recent date on any of their packs is 1992 (I tarocchi nei colori della Toscana).

The Word of One Tarot

Creator(s): John Cooke, Rosalind Sharpe, Alice Cooke Kent
Date: 1992
Country: USA
Publisher: Catalyst Enterprises
Number of Cards: 78+1,22,22
ISBN: 0-9634800-2-2
Type: other
Reference: Manteia



Notes:
John Starr Cooke was an American mystic and spiritual teacher who influenced the development of the counterculture movement that emerged in San Francisco during the sixties.

 T- The New Tarot for the Aquarian Age came into being, when a group of people gathered around John Starr Cooke, in 1962-63 received instructions about how to create the tarot from using an Ouija-board. John Star Cooke and his co-worker, Rosalind Sharpe, created an actual deck, that was published in 1969. 


John Starr Cooke died  in 1976. In 1979 his sister Alice Cooke Kent published Communify - A Game consisting of a black and white edition of the majors from "T" together with two other black and white major arcana decks.

One of the other two major sets is called The Atlantean Tarot, whose imagery was drawn by John Starr Cooke himself, and inspired by his wife's dreams. The second, named Medieval Gypsy was drawn by Rosalind Sharpe and is based on John Star Cooke's study of the traditional European tarot patterns.

In 1992 a re-edition of the three decks was published under the name of The Word of One, which includes not only a full 79-card color reprint of T- The New Tarot, but also a colored edition of the Medieval Gypsy Tarot plus the negative printed Atlantean Tarot.

The Atlantean Tarot represents the Major Arcana as they might have appeared in earlier ages, the cards represent the collective unconscious, and correspond to the matriarchal age. The Medieval Gypsy Tarot represents the patriarchal age, and is John Starr Cooke's interpretation of early French and Italian Tarot designs.


The Atlantean and Medieval decks could be used separately or combined into the larger deck, since all the cards have the same back design.

T- The New Tarot has no numbers on the Majors, they have been renamed, and the imagery is non-traditional. The pips arrange the suit symbols into geometric patterns. The suits are serpens (wands), pears (cups), blades (swords) and stones (pentacles) The court cards use different  kinds of symbolic objects as part of the design.

The packing is a solid cardboard box, which also contains the 70 page booklet .

Tarocchi Romantici

Creator(s): Giorgio Trevisian
Date: 1991
Country: Italy
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN:   
Type: other
Reference:  Encyclopedia of Tarot, vol. IV, pp. 494, 499







Notes: 
There are three editions of the "Tarocchi Romantici": a small edition with English titles, a larger edition with Italian titles and Roman numbering on the cards, and this small edition with Italian titles and Arabic numbers.

The English edition includes a card with a verse, the large Italian edition came with a LWB and has the verse on the box, my small edition has no verse and two explanation cards instead of the LWB. The back design is the same on all three editions.

The watercolor paintings are similar to Trevisan's Tarots of the Renaissance. 

Hive Tarot IV

Creator(s): Collaboration
Date: 2013
Country: USA
Publisher: The Hive Gallery
Number of Cards: 22
ISBN: 
Type: Other
Reference: The Hive Gallery

HIVE TAROT MAJOR ARCANA ARTISTS:

1. The Magician: Stephen Holman
2. The High Priestess: Branden Lukes
3. The Empress: Dustin Myers
4. The Emperor: Roxy Morataya
5. The Hierophant: Alex Schaefer
6. The Lovers: Charlie Chiodo
7. The Chariot: Josie Portillo
8. Strength: Allison Torneros
9. The Hermit: Daisuke Okamoto
10. Wheel of Fortune: Clark Walter
11. Justice: Brian Kesinger
12. The Hanged Man: Matt Dickson
13. Death: Taslimur
14. Temperence: McEvoy & Rodriguez
15. The Devil: Yoko D' Holbachie
16. The Tower: Alan Kocharian
17. The Star: J. Salvador
18. The Moon: Simon Lee
19. The Sun: Peter Adamyan
20. Judgement: Erik Siador
21. The World: Erick Rodriguez
22. The Fool: Lizz Lopez


Limited edition, which came in a transparent plastic bag.

Elemental Tarot (Turini)

Creator(s): Marco Turini
Date: 2010
Country: Italy
Publisher: Lo Scarabeo
Number of Cards: 79
ISBN: 978-0738721835  
Type: other
Reference: aeclectic  








Notes:
The traditional suits are represented by the elementals given by Paracelsus for the corresponding elements:

Wands /  fire / salamanders

Cups / water / undines

Swords / air / sylphs

Pentacles / earth / gnomes

The Minors are illustrated but they don't reflect the usual RWS scenes and meanings.

The deck has an extra Significator card and came with a LWB.