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Reading guide · Inclusive Rider–Waite
A practical way to read Rosario Salerno’s modern RWS-style deck: scene-based Minors, queer-inclusive casting, and a 120-page guidebook in the box.
The New Voice Tarot keeps the Rider–Waite–Smith map: 22 Majors, four suits, numbered Minors, and courts. What changes is who gets to occupy those archetypes. Fashion- and entertainment-inspired figures, diverse bodies, genders, abilities, and ethnicities, and a warmer tone than a sombre RWS reprint—without throwing out the esoteric structure Rosario studied while making the deck.
If you already read RWS, you do not start over. You practise the same cards with imagery that treats LGBTQ+ life as design, not a sticker. If you are new, illustrated scenes on every card plus the guidebook make this a strong first deck. Compare lineages in the Rider–Waite vs Tarot de Marseille guide if you are still choosing a system.
Use this four-step pass on a single card or a three-card line. It matches how the art is built: picture first, tradition second, people and place as meaning.
Every Minor Arcana card in The New Voice Tarot shows a full picture, in the Rider–Waite–Smith tradition. Before you reach for a keyword list, say what is happening: who is present, what they are wearing, where they stand, and what the weather of the image feels like. That is the reading.
This is not a new system. The 78-card structure, suits, and archetypes stay familiar if you learned on Rider–Waite apps, books, or classes. Inclusive casting is the point: the Magician, the Lovers, the courts, and the pip scenes are still those cards—drawn so queer, trans, and allied readers do not have to translate someone else’s world into theirs.
Rosario folded contemporary cities and skylines into the art—New York and Florence among them—so a spread can land in lived space, not only in medieval costume. When a card shows a street, a room, or a skyline you recognise, ask how that setting changes the advice you would give.
The boxed set includes a full-colour book with card meanings, sample spreads, and an introduction to reading. Use it as a check, not a script: look, name the scene, then confirm or stretch the meaning in the booklet written for these images.
Each set is 78 cards (88 × 146 mm) in a holographic magnetic-closure box, with a 120-page full-colour book covering meanings, spreads, and a reading intro. That book is written for these images—not a generic RWS pamphlet—so when a court or Minor feels unfamiliar, you are checking the same visual language you are holding.
Studio decks ship from us with the book included. You do not need a second volume to start. If you want a complete starter kit, see beginner tarot decks.
Stay with New Voice if you want scene-based Minors and a modern queer RWS table. Choose New Choice Tarot de Marseille if you want classical pip structure and flower language in the Minors. Same artist, two lineages; both are inclusive. For a buying shortlist, read best LGBTQ+ & queer tarot decks or browse the queer tarot collection.
Yes. It is a contemporary Rider–Waite–Smith inspired 78-card deck: illustrated scenes on every card, including the Minors, with inclusive, queer-friendly casting. If you already read RWS, the structure carries over.
Yes. Each set includes a 120-page full-colour guidebook with card meanings, spreads, and an introduction to tarot reading. Scene-based Minors also make it easier to start from the picture.
The system stays RWS. The difference is who appears in the archetypes—diverse identities, bodies, and cultures, fashion-inspired figures, and real-world places—so LGBTQ+ and allied readers can read without translating a generic deck.
The New Voice Tarot is a numbered studio edition with holographic gilding, a 120-page guidebook, and inclusive RWS art. Buy the deck, or start from the queer collection if you still want to compare lineages.