Vibrating Tarot

What toys do you want to see featured in Vibrating Tarot? 

This is an open call for anyone who has some great ideas for toys that should be featured in the deck of cards.

It’s important that I include a variety of diverse voices in the conversation, and I’m happy to be reaching out to important people in our community for guidance.  

I come to this project predominantly from a graphic design standpoint and secondly from a Tarot and divination standpoint. What I need the most help with understanding is the pleasure product industry.

Over the past year, I’ve had the chance to reach out to dozens of the world’s leading companies in the pleasure product industry to secure permission to use imagery of their products in the Tarot deck.

I owe a lot to all of these companies. Without their permission, I wouldn’t be able to do this kind of work and this body of work would not exist. Thank you to everyone out there who has shown me their support. 

Follow this link for a list of product manufacturers who are involved in Vibrating Tarot.

One of my goals is to be able to consult with a variety of health care professionals along the way to build a more comprehensive understanding of the important decisions that need to be made in a project like this. Provided here is a list of sex education professionals who are well known members of the community.

Part of getting all the details right in Vibrating Tarot consists of tapping into the wealth of knowledge that is found within the community of product reviewers and sex bloggers. The genuine guidance they give is invaluable, especially to a project like this. Listed here are some notable voices in this field.

I’m particularly interested in chatting with other card designers in an attempt to uncover what our different processes look like when it comes to releasing independently made decks of cards. 

Right now, I have my hands full trying to learn as much as I can about crowdfunding, figuring out where and how I’ll print the deck, trying to build my email list, finishing the design process, and thinking about marketing. I've already learned so much from those who have come before me. Thanks to everyone for forging this path. 

What are the first things that you look at when reviewing a new deck? What are the top things you take into consideration? What are some essential details that I shouldn’t neglect? What are some of the things that I want to avoid? 

The community of Tarot and Oracle deck reviewers has been a hidden gem for me, and I'm grateful to be in a position to learn from them on multiple levels. Listed here are the names that have stood out for me.

Have you heard the news? Vibrating Tarot is Crowdfunding with BackerKit

If you've been following this project for the past few years, you might have seen me post about crowdfunding with Kickstarter. So what happened with Kickstarter and where did BackerKit come from?

See our Crowdfunding page at the link below for a detailed account of how Vibrating Tarot found a  home on BackerKit's crowdfunding platform, and please follow the links to join our crowdfunding mailing list.

It’s a major goal of mine to feature small businesses and independent artists alongside the big companies so that everyone can share the spotlight in this project. This way, the landscape of the deck will resemble a truer depiction of the unique nature of our own personal toy collections. 

Here again, is this full list of all the companies who are currently featured in Vibrating Tarot. Thank you to all of them. Without them, this project would not be possible.

Free colouring pages will soon be available for download. A bound version of the colouring book will be available in a limited quantity to those who pledge in a certain tier when the crowdfunding campaign goes live. 

After the crowdfunding campaign is over, it would be nice to see the colouring book continue to be available and sold with, or independent of, the deck of cards. 

I’m a typographer, so I just naturally came up with this idea. I wanted to follow through with it as just a small way of giving back to the community who has helped make this project a success so far. Plus, I’m hoping it’ll catch the eye of others who have not yet heard of Vibrating Tarot so that I can expand my base as we lead up to the BackerKit campaign. 

The font will be free for non-commercial use, so we’ll all be able to use it in personal projects, or for educational purposes, but we won’t be able to print the images on t-shirts or coffee mugs and sell them for a profit. 

Vibrating Font is very close to being finished, but I’m still in the process of seeking approval from every company involved. When they agreed to be part of Vibrating Tarot, the didn’t agree to be included in this font, so I need to touch base with everyone first in order to get the green light. 

Read the full story at our Vibrating Tarot Font page by following the link below.

As a way of giving back to the community that has helped make this project possible, I’d like to donate some original pieces of art to silent auctions that donate their money to charities that work with matters pertaining to sex education, sexual assault survivors, and LGBTQ+ rights. I’m in discussions right now with some of the toy manufacturers in order to obtain permission to do so. 

This project has always been one that has generated a bunch of questions. 

See this newly added Frequently Asked Questions page to see the answers to 24 of my most asked questions. 

A lot of questions have been asked about the copyright claim US Games has over the Rider Waite Smith Tarot Deck. 

Please read all about it here and discover how it all breaks down.