Tuttle Publishing

Combining the elegantly sci-fi world of Steampunk with the meta-reality of traditional tarot, The Steampunk Tarot opens the door to a new realm of visually-rich archetypes arising from the ancient wisdom.

Using the traditional tarot format as a foundation, The Steampunk Tarot becomes a magical place, enlivened by men, gods, and machines. Wil Kinghan’s illustrations tell a story in their own right. Bold … beguiling … sultry … his characters are placed in environments which are dense with symbolism and rendered in lush detail. Sometimes engaging the viewer, sometimes seemingly oblivious to our presence, they go about the business of their mechanistic world with dedication and intensity. The Matthews’ companion book begins with an overview of the Steampunk movement and then gives us a tour of this churning, Howard-Hughes-style fantasyland. Highly creative and carefully constructed, The Steampunk Tarot is a visual and intellectual treat! SHOP FOR THE BOOK

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Quirk Books

Can the walking dead speak to you?

Now they can. The Zombie Tarot gives voice to them in a unique and exciting way. Join the traditional tarot Fool as he enters an apocalyptic world controlled by zombies. The familiar format — Major Arcana and Lesser Arcana with its four suits — offers some comfort to travelers through this eerie world.

For brave souls who are willing to risk the journey, the rewards are potentially great. Written tongue-in-cheek, with an odd mixing of the morbid with the profound, this is a serious tarot deck which delivers insight and direction with the best of them. Reading about scraping zombie goo off our shoes and the odor of the pile of corpses in the backyard has the effect of making advice like “take a deep breath before you open the door” resonant at a deeper level (as you chuckle to yourself). Who can ignore being told to make a decision when it’s driven home with “You’re starting to mold!”

This a deck every serious tarot student will want to own. Zombie lovers will find that the clever illustrations on the cards are well-worth the price of the deck. It’s a win-win for everybody — living or dead! SHOP FOR THE DECK

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Tuttle Publishing

This exciting new tarot addition draws on a little-noticed work of Michel de Nostredame, discovered in the Central National Library of Rome in 1994. Matthews and Kinghan couldn’t help but notice how similar the drawings were to tarot symbolism. It would be fair to say that they became obsessed with the illustrations and with completing what they believe to be the beginnings of a tarot deck created by Nostradamus and illustrated by his son César de Nostredame.

The result of this modern detective story is a tarot deck that recaptures divinatory wisdom from the sixteenth century and pairs the revitalized illustrations with newly translated excerpts from Nostradamus’ prophetic quatrains. The companion book contains a chapter in which Kinghan recounts the gargantuan challenge of reproducing the existing drawings and filling in the missing pieces to complete the deck. These is also a chapter by Caitlin Matthews describing the process by which she retranslated Nostradamus’ famous book of prophecies.

The methodical, yet creative, manner in which this deck was constructed gives us a tarot deck which is visually exciting, symbolically dense, and rich in esoteric wisdom from a time in which such teachings thrived. If you love tarot, this is a must-have. SHOP FOR THE DECK

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Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin

Julia Cameron’s classic wisdom about creativity serves as the basis for this beautiful and uplifting deck. Each of the 64 cards has a quote from her book The Artist’s Way. The other side of the card has a creative quality, derived from the quote. The cards are designed to help people find their inner artist, develop their imagination, and learn to trust their creative nature.

The deck is meant to inform, inspire, and motivate, but the beautifully designed cards will also make an excellent tool for meditation and intuitive readings. For people who are beginning creative projects, suffering from artistic blocks, or looking to move their talent up a level, the bold designs, coupled with the concise gems from Cameron’s deep well of insight, should prove to be an excellent aid. The quality packaging makes this a perfect gift item for the upcoming holiday season. SHOP FOR THE DECK

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