How to Create A Tarot Card Set

A few examples from one tarot card set.

Learning to create your own tarot card set does not require that you have an understanding on any particular tarot card set of which there are hundreds of sets and styles. You don't even have to particularly creative, or artistic to make your own tarot card set. What you do need is a basic understanding of symbolism and a little imagination, that coupled with the things you'll need in the list will allow you to make your very own tarot card deck that has meaning for you.

Things You'll Need

• Card stock
• Symbols or art
• Glue stick
• Scissors
• Notebook
• Book of symbols
• Colored pencils
• magazines
• Colored markers
• Stickers
• Paper
• A way to laminate your tarot card set

Instructions

1. Decide how many cards you are going to have in your deck. Contrary to popular opinion you do not need to have the standard 78 cards in your tarot deck. You can have as many as 100 or as few as 20. I just depends on how many symbols you think you need to to understand the deck's message to your subconscious.

2. Decide if you are going to use just simple symbols on your cards or if you prefer to actually create full-blown pictures for your tarot card set.

3. Make either a list of symbols or a list of picture ideas and their meanings for your tarot set. Deciding this ahead of time will help things to go more smoothly and quickly when you are creating your tarot set.

4. Decide on the size of your cards and draw them out with a ruler onto your card stock until you have the right number of blank cards for your tarot card set.

5. Cut out the cards from your card stock until you have your entire set of blank cards for your tarot deck.

6. Using your art supplies create whatever symbols, or art you want on each card. Once you've completed putting the symbols or art on your cards, shuffle them and do your first reading. You will find that using a deck with symbols and or artwork that has meaning for you will make doing readings far easier than if you are trying to learn someone else's tarot card set.

Tips & Warnings

• If you can't draw but want some kind of artwork on your tarot card set, consider collage or 3D art instead to complete your tarot card set.

• Laminating your cards is one way to protect the artwork and your tarot card set from damage.

• Another option to laminating your cards is glue them to heavy cardboard to keep them from getting damaged.

• Gluing your tarot cards to a heavy cardboard may make them more difficult to shuffle.

• Not creating a glossary for what your symbols or pictures mean to you could mean you forget their meanings later on.