As of November 6, 2026 the project’s creator has stopped answering my messages. I do not hold much hope for the decks to ever see the light of day.
The First Edition of the ETA Tarot was publshed in 2017. The ‘Emerging Toronto Artists‘ group was founded in 2014 to support artists in and around Toronto ON. A few years later a call was announced to find 80 artists to create this collaborative Tarot deck.
After the success of the ETA Tarot project (creating original art, a gallery show, and then the deck) a call went out for the creation of an Oracle deck. The result is a deck of 56 cards with art inspired by “crown” and a specific key word. This was published in 2020.
The decks and guidebooks shown here are my personal copies. Both images link to a much larger version. The Tarot guidebook was reprinted in 2022, but both decks and guidebooks are now Out Of Print.
A call for submissions for the ETA Tarot II was announced in 2023 (iirc). With ETA now representing ‘Elevate Toronto Artists– an artist collective which has brought together 40+ Canadian artists to illustrate one beautiful & magical tarot deck. Each of the 80 cards in the ETA TAROT represents an original, physical artwork, created by hand with paint mediums on canvas & wood surfaces, with a total production time spanning over the past 6 months.
The deck was expected to be available late in 2024, but the project, and its co-ordinator, have experienced drastic issues. Personal ones for the co-ordinator, with massive changes in shipping, tariffs and other world economic factors impacting the new deck. There is no updated ETA (shipping date) for ETA II. I eagerly await the arrival of ETA Tarot II – and the fabulous images created by artists in my home town.
As of Spring 2026, the project is still alive- although progress is slow.
