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There is a review of a new Labyrinth tarot deck at the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books website
https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2021/12/labyrinth-tarot-deck-and-guidebook-by-minerva-seigel-and-tomas-hijo/
and yes, it is a tarot deck based on *that* Labyrinth, the movie featuring David Bowie and his, as the reviewer refers to it, "his inappropriate pants." I still remember those pants, vividly, and I think they were perfectly appropriate.
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Posted to The Art of Darkness blog
The Science Tarot
http://www.sciencetarot.com/
examples of some of the cards
http://www.sciencetarot.com/cards.html

I am including a snippet from the AOD post below because the blogger gives some descriptions of the suits and some specific cards and I must say, if one is interested in writing a technomancy story, this deck would provide a lot of inspiration for the world-building.

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...I have to give mad props to the clever artwork. The suit of Cups is represented by beakers, Swords are scalpels, Pentacles are magnifying glasses, and Wands are bunsen burners. The major arcana are all famous scientists, and the deck attempts to match their work with the various cards’ “meanings” (the nurturing Empress, for instance, is represented by Mendel and his peas). The minor arcana illuminate various scientific ideas, and again an effort has been made to match them appropriately: The ambitious Seven of Swords is represented by the expansion of a red giant star, and the partner-oriented Three of Cups is illustrated by an orchid and its symbiotic fungus.
In particular, the fact that the Wheel of Fortune is represented by Schrödinger’s Cat is utter genius.
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While I managed to bump into someone at Arisia years ago who mentioned having a braille tarot deck for sale, these seem to have become completely unavailable. The best approach would be to get a blank tarot deck and braille your own or to use an online version like
The Silicon Valley Tarot, Internet Version
http://www.svtarot.com/net/
Note that the page offers a list of every card in the deck--to skip to the button to get your reading, search for
See Your Fortune - Silicon Valley Style!

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Just in time for Halloween, come listen to Alice Hackney, tarot reader, as she takes you step by step through how to read tarot and answers your questions.
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