MagicianMew
Hi everyone! I am about 70% done with my deck, and I was hoping I could get a bit of feedback on the pictures below.
I'm creating a minimalist tarot that can be a tool for new readers. The goal of it is to allow a new tarot reader to immediately be able to do basic readings without having to break the focus on their reading. It's no replacement for a good book or proper study. But it's essentially for those of us who picked up tarot at some point, and then put it down again for years because of the learning curve it has (or worse, never picked it up again!). A big reason that happens is because it's hard to just sit enjoy a reading in those early weeks and months of trying to learn the system. I'm hoping learners will be able to do that with mine, and quickly build up a set of associations.
My deck follows the Rider-Waite tradition pretty closely. I chose this system simply due to the sheer number of decks that are Rider-Waite-based to one extent or another, which will hopefully maximize the usefulness and translatability of my deck to other decks the reader may someday acquire.
I'm almost a bit shy to post my work here with all the incredible and intricate artwork I've seen, since mine is so simple! But that isn't the point of this deck; the point is for the images to be clean and memorable, and to compliment the other information on the card.
The Majors will have both a Roman numeral and numbers, in addition to definitions both upright and reversed.
The Minors have all of those things, plus each suit has a color, elemental, and keyword correspondence in the upper left corner.
Here's the Fool and the 3 of Swords side-by-side so you can sort of see the system. I've done my best to keep the cards from being cluttered!
What do you guys think?
Apprentice Tarot examples
I know this might not be the sort of deck a lot of people on this particular forum are dying for, but I am hoping it will help some people out.
I'm creating a minimalist tarot that can be a tool for new readers. The goal of it is to allow a new tarot reader to immediately be able to do basic readings without having to break the focus on their reading. It's no replacement for a good book or proper study. But it's essentially for those of us who picked up tarot at some point, and then put it down again for years because of the learning curve it has (or worse, never picked it up again!). A big reason that happens is because it's hard to just sit enjoy a reading in those early weeks and months of trying to learn the system. I'm hoping learners will be able to do that with mine, and quickly build up a set of associations.
My deck follows the Rider-Waite tradition pretty closely. I chose this system simply due to the sheer number of decks that are Rider-Waite-based to one extent or another, which will hopefully maximize the usefulness and translatability of my deck to other decks the reader may someday acquire.
I'm almost a bit shy to post my work here with all the incredible and intricate artwork I've seen, since mine is so simple! But that isn't the point of this deck; the point is for the images to be clean and memorable, and to compliment the other information on the card.
The Majors will have both a Roman numeral and numbers, in addition to definitions both upright and reversed.
The Minors have all of those things, plus each suit has a color, elemental, and keyword correspondence in the upper left corner.
Here's the Fool and the 3 of Swords side-by-side so you can sort of see the system. I've done my best to keep the cards from being cluttered!
What do you guys think?
Apprentice Tarot examples
I know this might not be the sort of deck a lot of people on this particular forum are dying for, but I am hoping it will help some people out.