What's New and Happening in the Tarot Workshop...
Last Update: December 1st 2011

* New * I am organizing a 14 day Tarot Art & History Tour
of Italy along with friends at the Tarot Museum!
It will take place: September 23rd - October 6th 2012
The tour outline is posted here

We conducted our first Tarot trip in the autumn of 2011. Here is a little video of our magical mystery tour! A high resolution version or if you prefer; a faster version which is a lower resolution.

I made a Family Court Card Deck using Tarot de Marseille as a template. Please check it out, it was a fun project!

U.S. Games published Transformational Tarot and we made a page where each card & description is viewable. I think they did a great job with it and I'm thrilled that its finally published by them, which was a long held dream. If you want a signed or personally inscribed copy, we offer it with free shipping within the U.S.

Take a peak at Leslie's Dreamythology Tarot and my sister deck, Lucky Pack Tarot. All cards & descriptions available to view, or order numbered, signed sets.

The Hero's Journey Tarot Set, which I have been handcrafting for over 15 years, sports a new art box! Each one is a signed, original design.
There are also smaller art boxes in a similar style but with various Tarot themes also available on the main art page.

Museo Dei Tarocchi asked me to host a collaborative deck with 22 of my favorite U.S. artists and that project, 'LiteraTarot America' is such a beautiful deck! If you want to order or see it, here are thumbnail images that lead to 22 larger cards and descriptions.

We visited the Tarot Museum in Bologna, and our dear friend Osvaldo Menegazzi of Il Menegello in Milan, Autumn, 2007. Here is a short write-up of that amazing adventure.

Please check out this mini website I've created to showcase the Tarot museum - details on their Limited Edition Tarot decks, esoteric tours, etc.
Last update: December 1st, 2011.

Please visit the Tarot art site I designed for 'il Meneghello'
- dedicated to the Italian artist and publisher, Osvaldo Menegazzi.
Updated December 1st, 2011.

A site I co-created with renown Tarot historian, critic and mail artist,
K. Frank Jensen (Denmark)

Next: Essays, Reviews, Interviews, Fun Projects...

Recently Tarot writer and creator of Tarot of the Masters James Ricklef interviewed me regarding Transformational Tarot

A podcast interview I did with a couple wonderful women from BATS (Anastasia & Rose Red from Bay Area Tarot Symposium ,) here. I think it went pretty well, considering I was nervous but they did a great job making me feel comfortable. Its available as a podcast on iTunes.

Diane Wilkes (of Tarot Passages) interviews Arnell

Artella 'Daily Muse' Interview with Arnell

Bonnie Cehevet's interview with Leslie Cochran & Arnell Ando

Some recent art group projects I contributed to and notes on the creative process

Arnell's favorite Tarot Spread is from Crowley's LWB. Here is an adaptation of it using Transformational Tarot .

A Handy Blank Celtic Cross Spread Chart for Your Clients or Journal (PDF)

(Download this (Free) Adobe Reader to Open PDF Files if Needed)

12 Day Tarot Art & History Tour of Italy, fall 2011 - pictorial essay to be posted soon.

Visit to the Tarot Museum (Museo dei Tarocchi) and to Il Meneghello - Italy - 2007

Tarot in Milan, Italy - 2004 (new details added 9/'08)

Tarot in Milan, 2000 (posted on the Tarot Passages site)

Michael & Arnell's 1st Italy Tarot Trip With Brian Williams, 1999

Deck Making/Publishing/Process

Making and Publishing Your Own Tarot Deck

Making a Collage Tarot deck

Review of an easy, fast and cheap way to make decks

Useful Tips on Making Your Own Collage Deck

The Creative Process of Making a Collage Tarot Deck

Why the 'H' Would You Put Your Own Image on the Devil Card?

(Other Authors on deck making)

Mary Griffin, artist of Hezicos Tarot shares her creative process and self-publishing details

Michele Jackson's helpful Tarot collage Article

Michelle Cohen shares her deck making method

Jean Hutter shares her deck making method

Fun, Experiential Exercises by Arnell

Marseille Family Deck: A personal, unpublished project of Arnell's family, who happen to fit the male to female ratio & the personalities of the Court Cards perfectly.

Arnell's Major Arcana 'Cliff Notes' (with movie references)

Creative Ways to Use a Tarot Journal

A Creative Tarot Story Project

A Visualization of the Fool's Journey

Sample Key of the Major Arcana

Sample Key of the Suits and Court Cards

A Major Arcana Journal Exercise

Tarot Truisms (Quotes) - Updated June 2011

Reviews of Arnell's Decks (and Collaborations)

A Review of LiteraTarot America on the Aeclectic Forum by Bonnie Cehovet, CTGM

Paula Gibby's In-depth Review of Two of Arnell's Decks, Hero's Journey & Transformational

A Few Reviews of Transformational Tarot

A Review of Arnell's Lucky Pack - Special Edition Tarot Set by K. Frank Jensen

A Review of Arnell's Lucky Pack Tarot Set, by Tarotist, Bonnie Cehovet

Arnell's Write-ups on a Few Favorite Tarot Decks

Write-ups with sample pics of most of the decks published by Museo dei Tarocchi

Steampunk Tarot self-published by Charissa Drengsen

Hezicos Tarot by Mary Griffin

el Tarot de Marcelino by Lynyrd Narciso

Isabel Snail Tarot by Beth Seilonen

The Morello Medieval Tarot created by Anissa Morello

The Odyssey Tarot by artist, Jean Hutter

The Eternal Dream Tarot by artist John Glock

Niki de Saint Phalle's Major Arcana deck

The Curious Tarot by collage artist, Michelle Cohen