Chrystal was nominated for a TABI CARTA Award for her work on Vespertine Tarot, making the shortlist under ‘Best Aspiring Debut Artist’ in 2025.

The annual TABI CARTA Awards is an organization recognizing excellence in art, writing and artistic development within the field of Tarot and Oracle cards and books.

Vespertine Tarot brings classic meanings of the cards and weaves them into new artistic themes to convey the deep meaning amidst the backdrop of lunar energies, Pagan Gods and Goddesses and vespertine animals.

Following the Rider/Waite/Smith system of reading; with its 78 cards; Major and Minor Arcana, including The Courts, each card featuring a vespertine animal. Vespertine Tarot also includes two additional cards with a unique meaning.

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Vespertine: “That which is relating to, active of occurring in the evening.”

A diverse allotment of creatures to be found amongst the cards, with each suit’s representing element being a determinant for the kind of animal to garnish the card.

Each animal featured in the cards are known to be most active between dusk and dawn.

Swords suit= Air element: animals associated with the sky and communication

Wands suit= Fire element: animals associated with exuberance, aggression or predatory behaviour.

Cups suit= Water element: animals associated with bodies of water.

Pentacles suit= Earth element: land animals, or those that are prolific.

Minor Arcana with Full Moon Aspects

Vespertine Tarot takes every third Minor Arcana card and adds lunar energy to the meaning of the card. Each full moon we have annually is featured on one of the cards.

  • 3 of Swords: Mourning Moon of November

  • 6 of Swords: Crow Moon of March

  • 9 of Swords: Corn Moon of August

  • 3 of Wands: Buck Moon of July

  • 6 of Wands: Hunter’s Moon of October

  • 9 of Wands: Oak Moon of December

  • 3 of Cups: Seed Moon of April

  • 6 of Cups: Snow Moon of Februrary

  • 9 of Cups: Flower Moon of May

  • 3 of Pentacles: Wolf Moon of January

  • 6 of Pentacles: Harvest Moon of September

  • 9 of Pentacles: Strawberry Moon of June

The Court Cards

In Vespertine Tarot, the names of the Court Cards follow the phases of the moon.

  • The Page is now The Maiden and is represented by the Waxing Moon.

  • The Knight is now The Mother and is represented by the Full Moon.

  • The Queen is now The Crone and is represented by the Waning Moon.

  • The King is now The Sage and is represented by the Dark Moon.

The Major Arcana

Vespertine Tarot’s Major Arcana are made up of fresh images alongside traditional meanings. Each card has a has a vespertine animal embodiment to it with other symbolic characteristics offered as human or anthropomorphic form.

Vespertine Tarot All Cards

  • Ace of Swords

  • Crone of Swords

  • Eight of Pentacles

  • Four of Pentacles

  • Maiden of Wands

  • Two of Cups

  • Five of Swords

  • Mother of Wands

  • Wheel of Fortune

  • Three of Pentacles/Wolf Moon

  • Two of Swords

  • Seven of Cups

  • Judgement

  • The Blue Moon

  • Nine of Wands/Oak Moon

  • Ace of Pentacles

  • Sage of Swords

  • Seven of Wands

  • The Tower

  • Three of Wands/Buck Moon

  • The Star

  • Six of Swords/Crow Moon

  • Mother of Cups

  • Seven of Pentacles

  • Sage of Wands

  • Seven of Swords

  • The Magician

  • Eight of Wands

  • Two of Pentacles

  • Maiden of Cups

  • Six of Pentacles/Harvest Moon

  • The World

  • Ace of Wands

  • Temperance

  • Nine of Swords/Corn Moon

  • The Lovers

  • Five of Cups

  • Four of Wands

  • Crone of Cups

  • Eight of Swords

  • Strength

  • The Hermit

  • Maiden of Pentacles

  • Nine of Pentacles/Strawberry Moon

  • Ace of Cups

  • The Chariot

  • Ten of Cups

  • The Fool

  • Crone of Wands

  • Four of Cups

  • Five of Pentacles

  • The Devil

  • Six of Wands/Hunter's Moon

  • Mother of Pentacles

  • The Emperor

  • The High Priestess

  • Nine of Cups/Flower Moon

  • Sage of Pentacles

  • The Moon

  • Five of Wands

  • Maiden of Swords

  • Six of Cups/Snow Moon

  • Ten of Wands

  • The Empress

  • Crone of Pentacles

  • Eight of Cups

  • Death

  • Four of Swords

  • The Hierophant

  • Mother of Swords

  • Ten of Pentacles

  • Three of Cups/Seed Moon

  • Sage of Cups

  • Ten of Swords

  • The Moon

  • The Super Moon

  • Three of Swords/Mourning Moon

  • Two of Wands

Deck Specs

Vespertine Tarot is a standard sized 80 card deck (78 traditional with two extra cards).

Printed on 350gsm, white-core cardstock with a semi-gloss finish. The deck’s sides are finished with a blue foil. Vespertine Tarot comes with a 100+ page guidebook with black and white images and card meanings. All encased in a premium magnetic closure box.

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