The Tarot Room – Georgianna

Here’s an interesting Tarot oriented Kickstarter Project … Mysteries of the Arcana, Chapter 5 by James Gray and Keith Wood.

Mysteries of the Arcana is an LGBT-friendly action comic book series based on Tarot’s Major and Minor Arcana, and it looks great.

Four issues have already been published, and you can see them all for free on-line at the Mysteries of the Arcana website. Take a look.

But to learn more about Chapter 5, the Kickstarter campaign supporting it, and the rewards you can get for donating, watch the video below and/or visit the project page.

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Here’s an interesting and quite beautiful new Tarot deck-in-the works … The Tarot of Creativity by Aliyah Marr.

Take a look at her Kickstarter video below, and/or visit the Tarot of Creativity project page to learn more.

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Here’s a sweet deck-in-the-making by Eden Gallanter – The Cheimonette Tarot.

Cheimonette is a word Gallanter came up with by mixing the Greek word cheimon, meaning storm, with the French suffix ette, for little.

Together they become cheimonette, or little storm, and refer to the burst of inspirational chaos one experiences in the creation of art, the very energy Gallanter clearly used to make this unique and beautiful deck.

To see some images from the cards and to learn more about the deck, visit the Cheimonette Tarot Kickstarter page, and/or take a look at the video below.

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Take a look at this Tarot Kickstarter Project video by James R. Eads for The Vision Project.

The Vision Project is a beautifully illustrated 78-card deck, and a series of 23 Tarot-inspired prints Eads calls The Prisma Visions Collection.

To learn more, visit the project page, and/or Ead’s website.

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If you’re a fan of Tarot, Steampunk and Fantasy, you might want to take a look at Jamie R. Stone’s The Immortals Tarot Deck.

He’s still got a ways to go on it, but so far it’s looking good.

Watch the video below, or visit his Kickstarter project page to learn more.

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Theresa Pridemore from Portland, Oregon is making a fabulous new deck dedicated to her beloved city.

The Portland Tarot is a digital photo collage deck, focusing on the people, places and quirks of Portland.

As you can see by the cards though, you don’t have to know anything about Portland to enjoy this deck.

The images tell their own story, and as Pridemore herself says it, they’re “subversive, whimsical and dangerously charming.”

Visit her Kickstarter page to learn more about the project. You might even want to donate and get a deck for yourself.

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Hannah Manocchio is a fourth year art student at Elmhurst College in Illinois who’s decided to make Tarot’s Major Arcana her Senior Art Capstone Project.

Manocchio is making 22 colour reduction woodcuts of all the Major Arcana cards, and the ones she’s done so far are great.

You can see them at her Kickstarter Page, where you can also read a little more about her and her project.

I wish she was willing to deliver her pledge gifts to Canada. I’d love to have a t-shirt with one of her card images on it.

And if she ever makes a full deck, I’d certainly be interested in getting one.

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Back in 1981, Donald Beaman, a professor of theatrical design at Boston University, visited Saqqara, the burial grounds for the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis.

Inspired by what he saw and felt at the 3,000 year old site, Beaman set about creating images based on early Egyptian systems of spiritual divination and transformation.

This past year, decades after their creation, dozens of these paintings were discovered in an old Inn and are now being made into a Tarot deck – The Tarot of Saqqara.

It’s quite beautiful. And if you’re a fan of sacred geometry, I think you might especially like it.

To learn more about the cards, the artist, and how this project even came into being, take a look at the video below.

And if you’re interested in helping the project come to life, visit the Tarot of Saqqara project page to donate.

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I wrote about this Kickstarter Project back in early June, but I guess Mercury retrograde is giving us an opportunity to revisit the story …

The Symbolist Tarot is a project by Richard Fox, an art historian and Tarot enthusiast.

He’s curated what looks to be a really nice deck of masterpieces from the Symbolism Art movement.

It includes works from artists like Franz Von Stuck, Gustav Klimt, John William Waterhouse, Edward Burne-Jones, and many more.  It’s beautiful.

But it’s not yet in print, and that’s what Fox is hoping to change by giving his project a second go at Kickstarter.

Though he was unable to raise the funds he hoped for the first time around, with some changes to the Backer Rewards and some other streamlining, he’s trying again.

And I hope he succeeds.

In the video below you can see the cards.  Or go to Fox’s blog, he has many of them posted there.

And of course, if you’re interested in supporting the project and getting a copy of the deck yourself, visit The Symbolist Tarot project page to donate.

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This Tarot Kickstarter project by Adam Blodgett is adorable!

Tagged as ‘a cute take on an ancient tradition’, Blodgett’s Chibi Tarot fulfills its promise. It’s absolutely darling, though not without an edge.

Blodgett is a serious student of the Tarot and he means his deck to be taken seriously.

But he’s also a huge fan of Chibi style art, so despite its traditional occult foundation, The Chibi Tarot is very, very cute.

Check out Blodgett’s video promo below. And visit his Kickstarter page to read more about the project and to see some of the cards.

You might even want to donate and get a special edition, over-sized deck for yourself.

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