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Visionary Woman Tarot by Kristine Gorman — 78 Card Feminist Art Deck
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Visionary Woman Tarot by Kristine Gorman — a 78-card feminist tarot deck celebrating the strength, wisdom, and diversity of women through bold, expressive artwork. Each card honors a different archetype of womanhood across cultural and spiritual traditions, making it an especially resonant choice for queer and inclusive practitioners, Modern Seekers, and anyone drawn to self-love and empowerment readings.
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- Artist/Author: Kristine Gorman
- Publisher: Weiser Books / Red Wheel Weiser
- Contents: 78 gilded-edge full-color cards and full-color guidebook with foreword by Benebell Wen
- Best for: Rider-Waite-Smith readers, art collectors, practitioners seeking a feminist-framed tarot
Rider-Waite-Smith Tradition Through the Lens of Fine Art
The Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, first published in 1909 with illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith under A. E. Waite's direction, established the visual vocabulary that the majority of contemporary tarot decks still use. Its innovation was illustrating all 78 cards with narrative scenes rather than leaving the pip cards as simple suit symbol arrangements. That choice made the deck readable by intuition, and it has been the template for thousands of decks since. The Visionary Woman Tarot builds directly on that tradition, retaining the RWS symbolic structure while replacing Smith's illustrations with original oil paintings by Kristine Gorman.
Gorman is a gallery-exhibited American artist whose work has been shown across the United States. This is a meaningful distinction: the Visionary Woman Tarot is not a digitally illustrated deck working in a painterly style, but a deck built from 78 individual oil paintings, each a complete artwork. That origin gives the cards a warmth, texture, and luminosity that printed digital art rarely achieves, and it positions this deck as a legitimate art collector's object in addition to a functional tarot tool.
Feminist Framing and Benebell Wen's Foreword
The deck's title announces its orientation: the Visionary Woman Tarot foregrounds feminine and feminist perspectives within the RWS structure. Gorman's figures are predominantly women and read across traditions and aesthetics rather than representing a single cultural moment. The guidebook that accompanies the deck features a foreword by Benebell Wen, one of the most respected voices in contemporary tarot, whose endorsement signals the deck's seriousness as a study tool rather than only a visual object. The gilded card edges are a production quality detail that makes the physical handling of the deck a pleasure.
For practitioners who have studied RWS-based decks and want a version that speaks specifically to feminine experience while maintaining full compatibility with existing tarot knowledge, this is a direct answer to that need. Browse my full tarot collection for other decks across traditions.
How to Use the Visionary Woman Tarot
How to approach the Visionary Woman Tarot whether you are new to RWS or an experienced reader.
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Familiarize Yourself with the Art Before Reading
Spend time with the cards as art objects before your first reading. Gorman's oil paintings reward close looking. Noting how each figure is posed and what background symbols appear deepens your reading capacity from the first session onward.
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Use Your Existing RWS Knowledge Directly
If you already read with any Rider-Waite-Smith deck, your existing card meanings apply here directly. The Visionary Woman Tarot follows the RWS structure for all 78 cards, including illustrated Minor Arcana across the traditional four suits.
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Read the Guidebook Foreword Before Studying Card Meanings
Benebell Wen's foreword contextualizes the deck's feminine framing within tarot history. Reading it before the card meanings sets up Gorman's interpretive lens, particularly for Major Arcana figures whose gender and posture are deliberate choices.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock the Visionary Woman Tarot because it earns the "art tarot" label in a way that many decks claiming it do not. These are actual oil paintings by a gallery-shown artist, not digital art in a painted style. That matters for people who want a deck they will live with and return to, not just use for a season. The Benebell Wen foreword confirms the deck's place in the serious tarot tradition rather than as a novelty object. If you are exploring decks with strong artistic provenance, take a look at my oracle deck collection for other artist-led divination tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
The deck contains 78 full-color gilded-edge cards, matching the standard 78-card tarot structure: 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana across the four suits. The deck includes a full-color guidebook with a foreword by tarot author Benebell Wen.
Yes. The deck follows the Rider-Waite-Smith structure fully, including illustrated pip cards in the Minor Arcana. Readers who work with any RWS-based deck can apply their existing knowledge directly without learning a new interpretive system.
Kristine Gorman is an American oil painter with gallery shows across the United States. The deck uses 78 original oil paintings, not digital art, giving the cards warmth and texture associated with fine art rather than printed illustration.
The guidebook foreword is by Benebell Wen, a respected tarot author known for Holistic Tarot. Her foreword places the deck within tarot tradition and contextualizes Gorman's feminist framing of the Rider-Waite-Smith imagery throughout the paintings.
