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Disclosure: I’m not the artist. I’m the project lead running the crowdfunding campaign. The deck is made in agreement with the publisher Glénat.

Olivier Ledroit is one of the first French artists to have brought gothic comics to the mainstream. His work on Requiem Vampire Knight (written by Pat Mills) is almost entirely black and red. This 78-card divinatory tarot is built on that universe.

The cards keep their classic names and structure, so the deck stays readable for any tarot practitioner. What changes is the lens. Take The World (XXI): in the comics, the world itself is called Résurrection, so the card of completion and wholeness is also read as a card of rebirth, of what comes back from the dead.

• 78 cards, 8.5 × 16 cm (bigger than a standard tarot)
• Rigid, book-shaped box with magnetic closure
• 70-page booklet
• One-time edition: it will not be reprinted or sold outside the crowdfunding campaign
• Part of the funds goes to an association

The campaign runs until November 5. Happy to answer any questions here.

Campaign page (English version available): https://www.ulule.com/tarot-requiem/

I created Jyotish Tarot as a 36-card divination system based on Jyotish Astrology, also known as Vedic astrology.

The 36 cards come from the planets, signs and houses used in Jyotish, but I developed the cards to work together as their own system for readings.

The artwork began as a way for me to study Jyotish more deeply. I created an original art piece for each card using collage made from materials I found in nature, along with paint and mulberry paper. Creating the images helped me explore and understand what each part of Jyotish represented. The photos show several of those original pieces next to the cards they eventually became.

When I turned the artwork into a physical deck, the original pieces went through the digital production process needed for printing, including resizing, cropping, color adjustment and preparing the images to fit standard card dimensions.

Jyotish Tarot has continued to develop from those original art pieces into a complete 36-card deck. I'm interested to hear what other deck creators and collectors think of the concept and the transition from the original artwork to the finished cards.

More about Jyotish Tarot at jyotishtarot.com

Hello everyone! The Pug-O-Ween Tarot deck is live on Kickstarter! I did want to share some of the cards that came in the proof. Let me know if you would like to see more of them and I can add them to this post. Thank you to those that have supported this as this is the first Kickstarter project my husband and I have been working on.

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