Tarot Chimera

A stunning, mysterious, and spirited tarot deck that uses Symbolist art to deepen your connection to your dreams and the guidance of spirit.

The Tarot Chimera is a tarot deck and guidebook kit comprised of artwork by the well-known French Symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840–1916). Each of the eighty-three full-color cards with gold gilt edging has been digitally enhanced and interpreted for the tarot format.

 Symbolist artist on the cutting edge of surrealism, Odilon Redon’s work was a visual exploration of occult mysteries. His imagery—evocative of dreams and the deep unconscious—contains dark, fantastical figures from Redon’s own imagination and represents an exploration of internal feelings and the psyche. Redon’s imagery places “the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible” and thus provides a perfect pathway for the tarot.

Following the structure of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, creator Nitasia Roland has allowed Redon’s imagery to naturally evolve into seventy-eight Major Arcana and Minor Arcana cards, with an emphasis on the “chimeric”—dreamlike, illusory, transformative. Five auxiliary cards deepen your tarot-reading experience: the Chimera (enhancing the Major archetypes), the Muse (relating to Cups/water), the Loci (relating to Pentacles/earth), the Trickster (relating to Wands/fire), and Imagination (relating to Swords/air).

The card meanings are presented as non–gender-specific.

The Tarot Chimera guidebook includes information on getting started and working with your tarot deck:

• A brief biography of Odilon Redon
• Guidance on how to magically consecrate your tarot deck
• Suggested traditional tarot card spreads
• Full-page tarot card interpretations

Beginner and advanced tarot readers alike will discover a new, deeper side of the tarot to explore through Redon and Roland. 

About the Creator

Nitasia Roland is a writer, poet, digital artist, and independent researcher and publisher of esoterica. She has an interdisciplinary master’s degree in English, poetry, printmaking, and design, as well as an MFA in creative writing. She has an extensive background in handmade textiles, book arts, teaching Photoshop, and editing and publishing small-press journals. She practices magic/theurgy and divination, and is an avid tarot card reader and astrology enthusiast.