Each of the different kinds of tarot cards in the deck of your choice will have a symbolic image, and an individual divinatory meaning. There is also a meaning for the card, if it is reversed.

The standard deck has four suits, containing fourteen cards. These are similar to our normal playing cards, and are known as the Minor Arcana, or the pip cards. The remaining twenty-two cards are called the Major Arcana. These have greater significance, and because of this, are known as the Greater Mysteries.

One of the best ways to learn about all the various decks, and find one that shouts out to you, is to read online reviews. In my own search I found a site that reviews more than nine hundred different kinds of tarot cards. These are full-length reviews, not just a couple of lines, with full size images of the cards, to help you make your choice.

As well as reviews of all the different kinds of tarot cards, there are also pages on tarot books, software, media, instructional videos, tarot dice, audio CD’s, and unusual types of tarot.

I found 360 Degrees of Wisdom particularly interesting. It is based on the Sabian Symbols, which is a channeling from the earliest Mesopotamian astrologers. Talk about different kinds of tarot cards, this is totally unique. It is a book with tear out pages, which are your cards, and it is designed to be much simpler to use than normal tarot cards.

If you are a lover of the unusual, the Kaleidoscope Tarot will fulfill your requirements. This is the forerunner to Leisa’s tarot of color deck. It has the attributes and color of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The deck has eighty opaque, stained glass tiles. This is two more than normal, and the extra tiles are for spirit and earth.

I do not know whether it is possible to use the words zany and beautiful in the same sentence, but when you take a look at the Ancestral Path Tarot, you will know what I mean. This deck combines feudal Japanese, Native American, Egyptian and Arthurian English images and symbols into what can only be described, as an extraordinary beautiful set of tarot cards. Each Minor Arcana suit matches with a particular tradition or culture.

I also love the Mystic Faerie Tarot. This deck is painted by Linda Ravenscroft in watercolors. It has gold edges and ornate borders, surrounding the nymphs, fairies, sprites and mermaids.

The attractive artwork of the Magna Tarot deck has illustrations in the Eastern manga comic style. Many of the images that traditionally showed men have been exchanged for women, and vice versa.
Staying with the unusual the Abyssal tarot is an adult deck, containing sensual underwater photography, which is otherworldly and romantic.