The Urban Tarot

by Robin Scott

Urban Tarot is a loving homage to the metropolis and all its diverse inhabitants. This stunning deck provides a map to your own inner city, a guide for the twenty-first century seeker of truth, insight, and magic living in the urban landscape. This unique vision of the tarot presents a set of ancient symbols, designed to help you see the miraculous in the modern and the mundane. The 78-card deck comes with an 84-page guidebook to help you find insight and understanding from the challenges of urban life. The book includes personal commentary by the artist about the people and events who inspired Urban Tarot.Board the train line that eats its own tail and journey with us. Feel the power pulsing below the pavement. Move to the music of traffic, and breathe in the smells of smoke and sweat, of hot pizza and the impossible. Within these cards, you will find the familiar and the fantastic sharing a four-story walkup apartment, where the avenues of Dream and Reality cross.About the artistRobin Scott is an artist, illustrator, graphic designer and web developer. She is a transgender woman, a feminist, a radical optimist, and a utopian socialist. She lives with her wife on the Upper West Side of New York City.

Genres: Tarot

84 pages, Paperback

Published May 31, 2019

Reviews

[Debbie Hoskins · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought The Urban Tarot deck. It is based heavily on the Thoth deck, conceptualized by Aleister Crowley and painted by Lady Frieda Harris. Robin Scott also draws significant inspiration from the Rider Waite Smith deck. The Thoth deck is related to traditional tarot interpretations. Crowley puts his own twist to the deck. He assigns words to each card. Robin Scott uses his words in her card designs. In the Thoth deck, VIII is Adjustment. This corresponds to the Justice card. Robin calls it Justice. In the Thoth deck XI is Lust. This corresponds to the Strength card. Robin calls it Strength. In the 16th or 17th century, the Marseille deck uses VIII as the Justice card and XI as the Strength card. Robin uses the Thoth minor arcana words on her minor arcana cards. These words differ slightly from the traditional meanings and would give querents a little different experience than a traditional Rider, Waite, Smith deck. I am only going to give the choice of Thoth decks to clients I have read for multiple times. In the Thoth deck instead of pentacles it uses discs. Robin Scott uses the Thoth court card labels of Princess, Prince, Queen, and Knight. The Knight is called a father, corresponding to the King, more than the Knight in traditional decks. She designates her court cards with delightful occupational titles unique to her deck.