I have created two tarot decks and am working on a third one. The Keeper’s Arcana: An Elven Tarot Deck was first. It is basically a Waite-Smith clone with a few changes based upon my personal understanding and how I read the cards. The Weaver’s Arcana: A Tarot of Fundamental Forces is a more expansive and expanded deck.
The Keeper’s Arcana is a 78 card deck with two alternative cards. Some of the major arcana had their names changed but an attempt was made to keep the card’s meaning intact. The deck is available for viewing here.
The main innovation of the Keeper’s Arcana was reformulating the court cards. Instead of the traditional feudalistic Page, Knight, Queen and King the deck uses Fledgling, Wanderer, Keeper, and Elder. This serves to de-gender the cards making it possible to elevate females for the two suits commonly associated with femininity.
The Weaver’s Arcana is a much more expansive deck containing 95 cards plus two alternative cards. The deck has three added major arcana and an entire extra suit called Spheres and based on the fifth element Aether. Some cards are below and the entire deck is available for viewing here.
The deck that is currently in progress and which I am extremely excited about is The Nexus Arcana: A Tarot of Human Connection. It builds upon everything learned from the previous two decks and takes things to a whole new level. This is definitely the last deck that I will be designing as I am incorporating everything that I have learned about Tarot into it. Labels have not been created yet, but following are some sample cards.
The cards above are left to right and reading down: The Chariot, The Moon, 6 of Spheres, 7 of Embers (Wands), 3 of Chalices (Cups), and 3 of Quills (Swords).
The deck is based on native peoples from around the world and go in roughly the order of expansion out of Africa: Major Arcana are African, Spheres are Australia and Pacific, Embers are Asian, Chalices are European, Quills are North American and Caribbean, and Coins are South American.
All 3 decks rely on AI for image generation with numerous revisions and increasing sophistication. For example the image prompt for the Romani 3 of Chalices above was 578 words.