Hm... sounds all kind of depressing. when talking money, but there are all sorts of other compensations when one is an artist. (or Tarot reader etc) Obvious reason why the value of the work is descending, among others, is an increasing number of decks available, if there would be only few decs, their creators would be bilionairs. This is when we are talking about Tarot creation apart from art profession in general.
Maybe Major Tom should put some powerfull spells to spare Tarot creators from poverty, and increase general valuation of work itself..
But there is another question here, drawing my attention, why there are so many people eagarly taking this challenge in past, let's say 10 years??? Is it just a coincidence or what?
There are numerous professional main stream artist as well, who do not participate in Tarot community and do not have ambitions to publish their work(I personally know two of them in Croatia), but are creators of remarkable Tarot interpretations.
Is it possible that massive Tarot creation movement is a sign of Spiritual Revolution (evolution?) is this expressing someting new and important in the core of civilization and human nature, and what??? Maybe one day in Utopia Society Tarot will become some kind of currency …(hm, my own brainstorming excerpt)
/cups for medical services, beauty etc, swords for intelectual, discs for …hm furniture, houses.., …/
PS
At present I am writing an essay for Art's magazine, and probably will bring up this topic on national TV (Coatia) as an art-history phenomena. So please post some opinions on that question
(Social phenomena as well considering incredibly increasing number of Tarot phone lines and all sorts of Tarot readers)