Playing for time: Tracing the origin of tarot cards
You get out what you put in.
Tarot
The haunting photographic tarot deck, with an unexpected nod from Bruce Springsteen
Imagine deciding to execute your own tarot deck using the photographic arts. Not just the 22 cards of the Major Arcana, mind you, but the…
Social network tarot cards predict the predictable
Though one’s daily experiences on Facebook are generally fairly predictable (“like” cat pics, block racist uncle’s Alex Jones posts), a clever artist has created a…
A fucked-up Tarot deck with its own soundtrack by Thee Oh Sees’ John Dwyer
It’s a bit late to get ahold of it for a Christmas gift this year, perhaps, but I suspect that the sure-to-be-malign year of 2017…
Totally 80s tarot deck with Punk, Post-Punk and New Wave icons
It seems like there’s a tarot card set for freaking everything nowadays and this long list now includes a “New Wave” tarot deck by Amanda…
‘Tarot,’ a Krautrock tour of the Major Arcana
Walter Wegmüller is a 79-year-old artist and tarotist from Switzerland. Though you can still find copies of his New Age Tarot and Gipsy Tarot decks,…
‘American Horror Story’ tarot cards
Ligne claire whiz Derek Eads has concocted a gorgeous tarot set for fans of FX’s creepy shudder-fest American Horror Story. Using the stately Art Nouveau…
H.R. Giger’s nightmarish tarot cards (NSFW)
Sometime in the 1990s the Swiss occultist who goes by the name Akron suggested to his countryman H.R. Giger that he create a set of…
Simpsons tarot cards
It’s been ten years since Matt Groening told The A.V. Club that “I honestly don’t see any end in sight” for The Simpsons because “the…
Martin Sharp’s psychedelic tarot cards from 1967
Martin Sharp was an incredibly important figure in the development of the psychedelic aesthetic in the 1960s. He was an artist from Australia and from…