Indie Decks
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Deck Review: The Hayworth Tarot
It’s time for another throwback review, with one of my all-time, old-time favourites: Jessica Hayworth's Hayworth Tarot. I’ve had this deck for years and years, and it shows up in my deep dives a LOT. Because I LOVE it. It is dark and creepy and fabulously unsettling. There’s a lot of inky black blood, a lot of viscera, and a general sense that something has gone terribly, terribly wrong... But in a good way, you know.
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Deck Review: Pixie’s Marseille Tarot
Pixie’s Marseille Tarot brings two of Tarot’s most influential traditions together, weaving Pamela Colman Smith’s familiar RWS figures into the pips, structures, and symbolism of the Tarot de Marseille. The result is clever, quirky, occasionally weird, and clearly made with enormous affection for both.
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Deck Review: The Hierophanies Tarot
The Hierophanies Tarot is a clever, strange, and tender queer reimagining of the RWS, weaving recurring natural forms through human bodies, technology, and the cosmos. Its richly symbolic cards explore identity, transformation, connection, and the exhilarating possibilities of becoming.
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Deck Review: The Slow Tarot
The Slow Tarot by Lacey Bryant was one of the very first indie Tarot decks I ever bought, and years later it remains one of my favourites. Created over six years as a true labour of love, every card began life as an original oil painting, resulting in a deck rich with atmosphere, symbolism, nostalgia, and dreamlike surrealism. If you enjoy Tarot decks that reward lingering, noticing details, and falling down symbolic rabbit holes, the Slow Tarot might be exactly your (vintage, chintzy) cup of tea.
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Deck Review: Earthbound Tarot
Created using hand-foraged earth pigments gathered from the New Mexico landscape itself, Celine Gordon’s Earthbound Tarot feels less like a deck merely inspired by nature and more like something physically weathered out of the desert. Full of burning skies, strange celestial signs, fissures opening in the earth, and moments of profound human tenderness, it’s one of the most numinous-yet-materially-grounded Tarot decks I’ve ever encountered.
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Deck Review: Chaos Blossom Tarot
The Chaos Blossom Tarot has inspired probably the most ambivalent review I've written so far. As a deck it's occasionally brilliant, occasionally baffling, and haunted throughout by a faint sense of symbolic uncanny valley. Some cards genuinely stopped me in my tracks (that Judgement card! OMG! 😍), while others left me staring at random giant sword-hamsters asking “but… why though?” A deck full of beautiful imagery and some mythological near-misses.
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Deck Review: Ever Ahead Tarot
A Tarot deck made of road signs, coffee cups, and loose change usually would not work for me… and yet, here we are! The Ever Ahead Tarot is a little treasure of a deck, and a fab travel companion - it takes the everyday and gives it just enough emotional weight to carry the whole RWS system - often very amusingly and with a surprising amount of heart.
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Deck Review: The Yukika Tarot
The Yukika Tarot by Stasia Burrington is a deck of soft watercolours and deep currents. Beneath its cosy, storybook surface runs something stranger: bodies, seeds, mycelium, quiet transformations. This is a Tarot deck deeply interested in growth, tenderness, and the invisible processes that slowly change us.
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Deck Review: The Endless Tarot
The Endless Tarot is less a deck you command and more a world you wander through. Drawn as a myriorama, its cards form a continuous panoramic landscape, rearranging themselves with every spread; a living, shifting story rather than a set of fixed meanings. Steeped in mythology, nostalgia, and that peculiar ache of anemoia, it positions you not at the centre of the action, but just slightly to one side of it. You are not the hero. You are the flâneur, the quiet witness, watching love, loss, celebration and fate unfold in twilight blues and starlit paths. Tarot here feels less like instruction and more like encountering a story already in…
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Deck Review: Tarot of Oxalia
The Tarot of Oxalia is a lush, self-assured, unapologetically feminine reimagining of the RWS. It balances softness with sharpness and roots its symbolism in cycles of flow: love, loss, abundance, decay. It feels both timeless and distinctly of its moment: mythic, earthy, and defiant.
