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Esclarmonde replied to Tanga's topic in Tarot DecksTanga I'm not at home, so I don't have the deck to hand. But it's the Halloween Oracle by Stacey DeMarco, published by Llewellyn Worldwide. I'll try to post some photos later in the day, perhaps. -
Nemia replied to DanielJUK's topic in Tarot DecksYesterday, my tarot parcel from BookDelivery arrived, nearly exactly a month after I ordered it. That's a normal time for my little corner of the world. The new Llewellyn Tarot Calendar looks very interesting - new spreads, and I really like the format. I have been using these calendars since 2018, and I keep the old ones. There is simply so much information in there, and also new decks to discover. I have wanted the Woodland Wardens Tarot since it came out. I own the Woodland Wardens Oracle already, and also the Good Fortune Tarot (after I saw a picture in the Llewellyn calendar). I love Jessica Roux's artwork, it's precise and dreamlike at the same time. The book seems to be very good as well. The Mindscapes Tarot looks beautiful. Oil pastel is a very unusual material to use for tarot - I have lots of ink, watercolour, collage, computer generated and oil colour decks, oh, and also coloured pencils (all my Atanassov decks). The majors are impressive and it will be interesting to compare them to other landscape-oriented ;-) decks I own (Majestic Earth, Flow, Landscape Tarot), and the minors are completely original. They don't echo much of the RWS core meanings (although they do help interpreting the cards) but they show the changes of a landscape over time. I can't wait to dive into these new decks. It's always such a pleasure to open a parcel. -
Croat replied to DanielJUK's topic in Tarot DecksNot in the mail, but this past weekend was in a whacky store full of weird used stuff (example: waxed cylinders used for recordings 120 years ago). While there, I chanced upon the smallish Universal Monsters Tarot Deck. The LWB is missing, but all the cards are there, and for $5 what the hell. Being a fan of the old Universal monster movies since childhood, I'm having too much fun with these cards! Rather hilariously, the box is designed inside to depict a coffin. Even more peculiar, the suits are candles (which I presume to be wands due to shape and alignment with fire), crypts (presumably cups because they contain things), claws (swords I suppose, since used to tear bodies open), and castles (pentacles I guess). The Fool card is the newly "born" Frankenstein, which almost seems more appropriate than any other deck. The Empresss is Frankenstein's Bride which is wonderful. On the down side the backs are kind of a weird design that doesn't do much, but at least they're reversible. So much more. Will I actually use it as a genuine Tarot deck? Hmmm... At first blush I'd say no, but dang, they did such a good job with it I just might give it a fighting chance.
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Deck to Check
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Red Pencil Sketches (Tarot 33.6)
Author: Jamie Sawyer
Publisher & Year: Jamie Sawyer, 2022
Card Size: 2.75" x 4.75"
Purchase at: Out of Print (OOP)
This deck came in a boxed set with Sawyer's Path Tarot, for which it was a draft. You can learn more about it at Jamie's shop.
Related on the Deck Library - Sawyer's Path Tarot
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The Deleted World Tarot
If you're nostalgic about the early internet, or were born too late but wish you'd surfed it before corporations got their claws in it, this deck might be for you. It's a bit odd, like those weird sites you'd come across that felt like hidden treasures, since often you would need to stumble upon them or hear about them from a stranger in chat. (To this day I miss a site where you'd type words to change a simple line layout of an apartment. Like an early word cloud. Just in my memory, unless you remember it too? Or the Death Clock, which was more well known, and gave me a date I'm happy to say I passed years ago. 😅)
Artist/Author - Josh Urban Davis
Self-Published (2024, crowdfunded)
Card Size - Standard
Cards - 80 (One extra card "The Thing Between Worlds" and one deck number card)
Card stock - 350gsm premium linen (Matte. A lot like the MPC linen with a great feel, good for riffle, and a that slight woven texture on the card)
LWB - lwb Atlas of Deleted Worlds, 120 pages comes with deck
Box - Lidded hard cardboard
Edition - First, numbered
Purchase here - https://joshurbandavis.com/shop.htmlDetails: Art includes collage. No AI was used. Photo shows The Fool, 7 of Pixels (Wands), Ace of Glitches (Cups), card back, and on the second row the 5 of Glitches, Queen of Illusions (Swords) 6 of Components (Pents) and LWB. With the exception of courts, cards have a different title for upright or reversed (or if like me you don't read reversals, a second title to consider within the range of meanings for a card.) 10s are numbered Ø.
The art is surreal; the color pallet is meant to remind you of back in the day, and the theme is front and center throughout. It's not a RWS clone by any means, and not a deck I'd recommend for beginners.
From the creator: "The Deleted World Tarot is a tool for healing the rift between the choices of the past and the consequential loss of alternative futures. A tool and a story told out of order and out of time, it's a hope that illuminates the worlds we lose by the choices we make every day, and a call to consider what is worth saving. What is not saved will be lost."
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Maddonni Tarot
Artist - Silvia Maddonni
Publisher - Grimaud, Published in France
First Published - 1981
Ref - 394 152
Language - French, EnglishAvailability - Hard to Find, OOP
