The Uncommon Tarot

The Uncommon Tarot pairs artist Shaheen Miro's illustrations with guidebook text by Theresa Reed, known professionally as the Tarot Lady, in a seventy eight card deck published by Red Wheel and Weiser in 2020. It keeps the standard Major and Minor Arcana structure while presenting each card through dreamlike, celestial imagery in a soft, atmospheric palette, aimed at an intuitive rather than a strictly traditional reading style that leans on a reader's own impressions of each image alongside its established meaning.

Reed's own professional identity as the Tarot Lady, built across a long career of tarot writing and teaching independent of this deck, gives The Uncommon Tarot a guidebook voice shaped by that broader teaching practice rather than by a single deck's worth of original interpretation. Published the same year as Tarot of the Divine and Next World Tarot, it joined a cluster of decks released in 2020 that kept the traditional seventy eight card count while pursuing a distinct visual identity, in this case a dreamlike and celestial rather than a folkloric, punk or affirmation focused one.

Both Light Seer's Tarot and The Uncommon Tarot pursue an approachable, less intimidating visual style aimed at readers newer to tarot or reading more by feel than by fixed meaning, though Chris-Anne's warmly luminous figures and Miro's cooler, celestial palette arrive at that shared goal through visibly different illustration choices.