Quest Tarot

By Matt White

Quest Tarot This was published in 2003   and the author Joseph Ernest Martin says its designed to be easy to use, the publishers even promote for beginners!! This deck though may confuse people with the amount of detail, The court cards have been changed to father, mother, son and daughter. The Chariot is a UFO…

Sherlock Holmes Tarot

By Matt White

Sherlock Holmes Tarot Inspired by Conan Doyle and no doubt released to capitalise on the recent success of the BBC Sherlock TV series. John Matthews along with artist Wil Kinghan have produced the Sherlock Holnmes deck. This 2014 edition by Connections takes the stories of Sherlock Homes and weaves them into the Tarot.  For some…

Spill Tarot

By Matt White

Spill Tarot This comes in a heavy duty fabric lined case which seems to be collect dust.  Published in 2009 as part of the SPILL festival of performance. This was an artistic collaboration of a number of artists overseen by Robert Pacciti. Different artists were given different major arcana a cards to photograph as performance,…

SteamPunk Tarot

By Matt White

SteamPunk Tarot Will this be a short lived fad, I am not sure but this Steampunk deck by Llewellyn is an interesting pack Steampunk is too new as a single word for my spell checker though this deck dates from 2012 so interest has been there a few years now. The book is by Barbara…

Tarot of the Master

By Matt White

Tarot of the Master This is a traditional deck by Giovanni Vacchetta and was first published in 1893 in Turin, this is a coloured version as they were probably just black and white in the original edition with some copies hand coloured. The original artist was born in 1863 and died in 1940, Giovanni became…