User:Thefountaintarot/The Fountain Tarot

The Fountain Tarot The Fountain Tarot is a contemporary Tarot deck co-created by Jonathan Saiz (Artist), Jason Gruhl (Writer) and Andrea "Andi" Todaro (Designer). Self-published in June 2015, the deck includes 79 original oil paintings and, in the tradition of the Rider-Waite Tarot, depicts full illustrations for each of the cards in both the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. An additional card ("The Fountain") was added to the traditional 78 cards, and is the namesake of the deck. The first edition includes: 79 cards, a 110-page booklet, and a foil-covered box with a magnetic closure.

As a contemporary Tarot deck, The Fountain Tarot aims to capture the essence of Tarot throughout time while providing accessibility and familiarity to people in the 21st century through visual, written and design features. Decisions to add or eliminate certain elements or symbols (as compared to the Rider-Waite deck), or to re-order certain cards (Strength and Justice) were made for a number of reasons: (1) to focus or highlight particular aspects of the cards, (2) to create inclusion through the elimination or reduction of Christian symbology, or (3) to return a particular element to its Italian or early origins.

The Fountain Tarot was originally funded through the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter in July 2014.