Karma Tarot

The Karma Tarot is Danish artist Birgit Boline Erfurt's phantasmagoric rendering of the colorful people she saw at Christiania from 1976-1978. At that time, Christiania was a self-contained haven in Copenhagen for artists, musicians and other free spirits of the counter-culture. Erfurt sketched at night using the light of a wood fire, then added colors during the daylight - watercolors with gouache technique. She created her deck in sequence beginning with the Fool, and she used her friends and the characters around her as the models for her designs. The title of the deck comes from Karma Music, the artist's music concern. The company published a limited edition of 400 sets of the major arcana in 1978. The full deck was first published in 1983. The logo for Karma Music is the main feature of the back design.

Deck

Number of
Cards Card
Size Copyright Publisher Card Back Design

78
22 major
56 minor
3 1/2"
x
5 3/8" 1983 U. S. Games [back design]

Deck
Number of Cards	Card Size	Copyright	Publisher	Card Back Design
78 22 major 56 minor	3 1/2" x 5 3/8"	1983	U. S. Games

Language of Card Titles: English

Style of Suit Cards (2-10): fantasy-like scenes

Also Included: instruction booklet

Major Arcana:
Fool, Juggler, Wise Woman, Lilith, Osiris, Grand Master,
Lovers, Chariot, Strength, Hermit, Wheel, Justice,
Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, Devil, Tower, Star, Moon,
Sun, Judgement, World

Suit Names: Wands, Cups, Swords, Coins (Pentacles)

Court Cards: King, Queen, Knight, Page

SAMPLE CARD IMAGES:

[King of Cups] [Nine of Coins] [Nine of Wands]

Reference - The Encyclopedia of Tarot: Volume 3 by Stuart Kaplan, pgs. 594, 598-599.