Black Violet Tarot

Throughout history, art and folklore, violets have represented life and fertility, death and remembrance - a striking contrast of joy versus grief, beginning versus end and future versus memory.

With their dramatic Art Nouveau style, the 80 exquisite cards of the Black Violet Tarot are designed to spark inspiration for art and self-expression. Use this tarot as a tool to contemplate what is and dream about what could be - whatever your creative endeavor. With a women-led take on Rider-Waite-Smith, this deck will help you reflect on any aspect of life - joyful or painful, meaningful or mundane - in order to tap into your creativity and artistic voice.

Throughout history, art and folklore, violets have represented life and fertility, death and remembrance - a striking contrast of joy versus grief, beginning versus end and future versus memory. The Black Violet Tarot reflects this idea of bittersweet dualities - of shining a light in times of darkness.

Heidi Phelps is an artist and illustrator from Washington DC by way of Providence, Rhode Island. Influenced by Aubrey Beardsley, Andy Warhol and Frida Kahlo among many others, she is fascinated by the process of giving shape and form to ideas through images and conveying multiple messages through visual art. When she’s not drawing (and often when she is), Heidi is hanging out with her husband, Erdem; their daughter, Leyla; and her two cats, Daisy and Eddie.