These 20th-century innovators sparked a renaissance. Their vision opened the floodgates for thousands of artists, writers, and mystics to develop their own tarot decks. Today, there are tarot designs for every culture, belief system, and artistic taste.

The tarot we know today would be almost unrecognizable without the influence of a secret society called the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. In the late 19th century, this British occult group took tarot beyond simple fortune-telling and reshaped it into a full-fledged magical system.