10 Beautiful Tarot Card Decks for Beginners
There are so many beautiful tarot card decks out there these days. From classic to holographic, it can be a challenge to choose the right deck. Especially if you are a beginner to tarot reading.
I love tarot and have been reading cards for many years. Since 1995 to be exact! Tarot cards always comfort me and provide valuable insight. They are an amazing tool for divination, connecting with your higher self, and a fun hobby, too. For these reasons, I felt inspired to share with you 10 amazing choices for easy-to-use, beautiful tarot card decks.
For the most part, each of these tarot card decks contains traditional tarot imagery. But each deck has a beautiful unique variation in the traditional artwork. Traditional imagery makes these cards easier to interpret, which is helpful if you are new to the tarot. Any of these beautiful tarot card decks would make the perfect gift for a beginner or expert tarot reader.
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Beautiful tarot card decks for beginners
1. Ethereal Visions Illuminated Tarot Deck
This beautiful tarot card deck was created by artist Matt Hughes. The style of the artwork is inspired by the Art Nouveau movement of the late 1800’s- early 1900’s. Each card has gold foil stamping to accentuate the hand-drawn artwork. The Ethereal Visions deck has 80 cards plus a 48-page booklet with all of their meanings.
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2. The Neo Rider Tarot Holographic Tarot Deck
Talk about eye-catching! The Neo Rider Holographic deck features holographic black and red foil on high-quality art paper. Each card is trimmed in gold foil. The artwork is the traditional Rider-Waite deck artwork. Rider-Waite is considered one of the traditional and most popular tarot card decks, originally created in 1909. This deck includes 78 cards and a 172-page guidebook.
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3. The Goddess Tarot Deck
The Goddess Tarot Deck is a beautiful, ornately drawn deck by artist Kris Waldherr. Goddess imagery merges with traditional tarot symbolism for a powerfully beautiful tarot card deck. Each of the major arcana cards features a different goddess. And the minor arcana cards are each associated with a nature element (earth, air, fire, water) and a goddess. This deck has 78 cards.
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4. The Linestrider Tarot
The Linestrider Tarot is a soft, elegant watercolor and ink-drawn deck created by Siolo Thompson. The images are traditional yet whimsical with white backgrounds. They have a minimalist feel. This deck has 78 cards.
5. The Wild Unknown Tarot Deck
This tarot card deck features striking black-and-white imagery with pops of rainbow colors. Created by Kim Krans in a minimalist style, The Wild Unknown Tarot is a 78-card deck, popular among beginners and experts alike. 200-page guidebook included.
6. The Miriyan Classic Tarot Card Deck
Designed by artist Pamela Colman Smith, this 78-card deck features classic tarot symbolism on linen-textured cards. The striking black and white mandala backs are gorgeous. The Miriyan Classic Tarot Deck comes with an online resource for interpreting the cards.
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7. The Bianco Nero Tarot
The Bianco Nero Tarot is a classic-style black and white tarot deck. The detailed artwork is striking. This deck comes with a 64-page booklet for interpretation.
8. The Artist’s Inner Vision Tarot
This beautiful tarot card deck is incredibly detailed and colorful. Interestingly, this deck was created by a team of twenty-six talented artists who were each assigned certain cards. The artists based their interpretations on the traditional Rider Waite tarot card deck. Although each artist used their own style, the deck as a whole was graphically edited by the overseer of the project, NoMonet. The Artist’s Inner Vision deck comes with 78 cards plus a guidebook.
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9. The Star Spinner Tarot
The Star Spinner Tarot is a beautiful tarot deck full of fairies and mermaids, It was created by artist Trung Le Nguyen. This deck is designed to feel more inclusive to the LGBTQ community and contains 81 cards, including multiple Lovers cards, rather than one lover card of a man and a woman. These cards are colorful with a fun, whimsical, comic-book-mixed-with-Art-Nouveau feel.
10. Modern Witch Tarot Deck
The Modern Witch Tarot Deck is a contemporary and fun deck created by illustrator Lisa Sterle. The artwork is in the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith deck style with youthful, modern, and diverse figures. This deck is one of the best-selling new tarot card decks
Concluding Thoughts
I hope you enjoyed browsing these 10 beautiful tarot card decks. Tarot reading is such a wonderful skill that is easy to develop.
A uniquely illustrated tarot deck sure does inspire me. I think my favorite of these gorgeous tarot card decks is The Ethereal Visions deck. What about you?
Please let me know your favorite tarot deck in the comments below, and have a beautiful day!
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