Devil's Advocate - Introduction

[Joan Marie]

Please allow mw to introduce myself.
This new section is dedicated to those controversial or unpopular opinions that you might otherwise hesitate to bring up.

You know you have them.

There are a few simple rules, posted at the top but since a lot of people don't see the pink box for some reason, here they are:

Forum rules
Greetings Trouble Makers.
This is the place where you can ask the difficult questions, raise some issues, be controversial, rattle some cages.

You just have to follow a few simple, fairly obvious rules:

1. The topic you bring up MUST be in some way tarot related (or Oracle, Lenormand, etc of course)

2. You can be controversial without being rude. The occasional emoji or accompanying image can do a lot to help you get your point and ideas across the way you mean them. Think of emojis as "clarifiers."

3. Let's all assume we all mean well. Sometimes, in writing words can come across harsher than they were meant (see rule 2 for help with this) but let's try to help each other gain clarity and not let discussions turn into arguments.

4. If you find yourself becoming heated about something here, go for a nice relaxing walk or something before replying. It's just an internet forum.

5. Stay open minded.

That should be enough for this to run smoothly.

Oh wait: VERY Important

6. This space is not for personal beefs with individuals. You can discuss the ISSUE but naming names in any derogatory way ain't gonna fly here. That's what Facebook is for.

Open your topic HERE under the main heading.

ALSO: Please reply to this post with your favourite Devil card Images. I will use them in the rotation of images in the permanent link to this forum I have on the home page.

Your opinion on this is, of course, also welcome.

Let's have some fun!

[Thelder]

I stumbled upon the following devil card image a couple years ago, and it has been my favorite ever since (although honorable mention must be given to Patrick Valenza's devil cards from his Trionfi Della Luna Tarot).

I believe this image was created by the artist Tadahiko Kawaguchi (Hesomoge) who also created the The Blue Birds' Tarot. From what I have been able to find out (so far), it does not yet appear to be part of a completed deck.

Although I have never liked The Blue Birds' Tarot quite enough to add it to my collection, I would like to see the artist create a deck more in the style of this devil card. That would make me part with some money.

[JudyK]

While I'm considering my controversial opinions, at least of the Tarot variety , here's a favourite Devil of mine, from the Winter Waite Revised Edition -

[Joan Marie]

Seeing as how I awoke this morning to a fresh blanket of snow outside, this little Devil was right on time @JudyK !

Thanks!
keep sending in your devils everyone. I need them for the home page link to the this new section.

[Thelder]

Although I have already submitted a devil card image, I found another unusual image from my collection that you might wish to add to your rotation, as it is one that some might not have seen before.

This devil card is by the artist Toshiko Tuchihashi. It is from a “majors only” deck published in Japan (around 1990) under the English title of “Tarot 22.”

[Joan Marie]

That's a real beauty for sure @Thelder !

A real candidate for the Hall of Tarot Devils that's for sure!

Thanks for sharing it.

Feel free to contribute as many as you like!

[Joan Marie]

Here's another lovely Devil:

by The Itinerant Bizarrium, for Button Soup Tarot

[Pen]

Well, you did say controversial...

From Tarot Corrumpe by Marcel Ruijters

[Joan Marie]

That's just amazing @Pen

I love it.

[Charlie Brown]

That's a cool card. Perhaps it speaks to my problems that I don't understand why it's controversial.

[Joan Marie]

I need more Devil card Images you guys!

(Yes I fully see the irony of using the prayer hands emoji when asking for Devil cards - )

[TalicaRed]

I recently received the Zombie Tarot as a gift, and found the imagery interesting. Here's the Devil from that deck:

[Joan Marie]

Thanks! @TalicaRed

That's a really good one!

[Pen]

I need more Devil card Images you guys!

(Yes I fully see the irony of using the prayer hands emoji when asking for Devil cards - )

I'll look out a few more, and you're more than welcome to pick up any of mine from the Fig Tree website, also The Wild Green Chagallian Devil, who is in the Library of Decks.

[Pen]

Crystal Tarot

Bosch Tarot

Old English Tarot

Stella's Tarot

Tarot of the Trance

Universal Tarot

[Pen]

Tarot of the Origins

Thomson Leng Tarot

Liber T Tarot

Grand Tarot Ellessia

[Joan Marie]

@Pen These are great!! Thank you so much.

What a wonderful world of devils there is out there!!

[JudyK]

Autonomic Tarot - David Keenan, art by Sophy Hollington

[Thelder]

I'm not normally a fan of Anime or Manga decks, but the Cruel Thing Tarot by Luciano Vecchio (pictured immediately below) has a strong gothic element that I find appealing.

One of the devils from Patrick Valenza's Trionfi Della Luna Tarot

Le Tarot de la Rea by Alain Bocher

@Pen Thank you so much for posting the Stella's Tarot devil card. I had that one on my list. Such a stunning image!

@JudyK Thanks much for posting the Autonomic Tarot. I always like being introduced to tarots that I was not aware of. I will definitely need to add this one to my collection. The art reminds me a little of Vladimir Tesar's, whose oracle deck I was lucky enough to find last year.

[JudyK]

@JudyK Thanks much for posting the Autonomic Tarot. I always like being introduced to tarots that I was not aware of. I will definitely need to add this one to my collection. The art reminds me a little of Vladimir Tesar's, whose oracle deck I was lucky enough to find last year.

Someone posted pictures of it and I was stunned to learn that it was published in the UK (where I am) and I'd never heard of it before. Immediately set about getting a hold of a copy. What I love about it, apart from the weird-and-wonderful artwork, is that it's a "stripped" tarot - trumps + Aces + 10s. And I agree, the art style is similar to the Tesař cards. That may have been part of the attraction.

[Thelder]

Here is another Devil who has volunteered to join your rotation. This one is from a lovely Majors-only deck called L'Escalier d'Aton (The Staircase of Aton) by Viviane Sérard.

[Thelder]

The Astral Tarot by Katherine Yurica (1969)

[sharmaakshay]

hey
thanks for posting rules
such an informative post