Posts tagged with "tarot deck review"

Universal Waite Tarot

The Universal Waite Tarot is quite a pretty version of the Rider-Waite, with more appealing, softer artwork.



I also have this deck in my collection.

You can find more similar versions of Pamela Colman-Smith's Rider-Waite tarot, but this information will help you in selection of the deck(s) that you will like to have.

Robin Wood Tarot

With its Rider-Waite foundation, Robin Wood's Tarot deck contains Pagan symbolism. The illustrations in this popular deck are attractive, and brightly.


Rider-Waite Tarot

Rider-Waite Tarot, Rider Tarot, Waite Tarot, Waite-Smith Tarot

The Rider-Waite Tarot is a classic Tarot deck, perhaps the most well-known in the Western world. It is often called the first modern Tarot deck, as the cards drawn by Pamela Colman-Smith and commissioned by Waite were the first to use detailed pictures on the minor arcana cards.
 




Rider-Waite Tarot (University Books)

This version of the Tarot was published by 1959. Its colors are more vivid than later editions and the backs have a different background.

Radical Wirth Tarot

Radical Wirth Tarot

The tarot images used in the Oswald Wirth Tarot have been re-painted. The originals were flat illustrations with brown backgrounds, but these are richly decorated and multi-hued pictures.

Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot

In the Radiant Rider-Waite Tarot, Poshkus has re-illustrated and updated Pamela Colman-Smith's images. Compared to the original, these cards are much more luminously colored and three-dimensional.





I have this deck in my collection and find it excellent for reading and divination.

The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack

The Original Rider-Waite Tarot differs from the Rider-Waite Tarot, as it has less saturated colors and a brownish hue, titles as drawn by Pamela Colman-Smith, and a more decorative back pattern.





I personally found this deck not good quality. What was bothering me is that the quality of painting was really bad, and colors were really dull. Before you buy this deck, try to see if there are open sample decks.

Ended up, that I gave this deck away to my friend who lives overseas, so she can use them.

Illuminated Tarot

The Illuminated Tarot deck is another recolored version of the Rider-Waite. Every part of the scene glows with luminous brilliance.This are interesting cards, you can try to use them and see if you like them.

Herbal Tarot

The Herbal Tarot is another Rider-Waite style deck, except it pictures a different herb that corresponds with each card, such as garlic for the Tower, and a lotus in the Ace of Cups. Some herbal knowledge will be helpful to read with this deck.



Fairytale Tarot

The cards have a Rider-Waite basis and illustrate stories from the well known fairly tales taken from many diverse cultures.



I really think this is a very nice deck with beautiful inspiring images to have in your collection.

http://www.fairytaletarot.com/home.htm

Diamond Tarot

A reworked Rider-Waite type tarot, featuring Pamela Colman-Smith's original drawings with more psychedelic colors. The Diamond Tarot cards are inset into thick, almost tunnel-like, kaleidoscopic borders.






Colman-Smith Tarot

Colman-Smith Tarot a modern reinvention of the classic Rider Waite deck, infusing the original line drawings by Pamela Colman-Smith with colors drawn from the psychedelic digital age.



B.O.T.A. Tarot

Almost similar enough to the Rider-Waite to be classed as a clone deck, printed in black and white only. Seekers can pain this deck. When I first started, my girlfriend painted cards and I was using black and white cards for long time while leaving overseas, until this cards arrived in the former USSR.



Black and white cards give very interesting flavor for readings and divination.

Aquatic Tarot

The artist has repainted Pamela Colman-Smith's drawings in watercolors. The images are very soft and quite lovely. The Aquatic Tarot is definitely one of my favorite of the Rider-Waite clone decks.

It is rapidly becoming one of the most popular decks, due to both its spectacular beauty and its traditional imagery.




It is out of print, but you can search ebay or amazon, and you may find this deck.