Check out Grimalkin’s Curious Cats Tarot if you haven’t already. The Fool has a cat pushing things off a table.
So I got the Cats Rule The World Tarot about six months ago. Every figure in the traditional RWS deck is replaced with a cat. The Death card has a skeleton cat riding a horse. Hermit card shows this old tabby holding a lantern. Queen of Cups is a Persian, which makes sense.
Tower is cats tumbling from a collapsing tower.
Check out Debra Givin’s Cat’s Eye Tarot. It came out in 2011, so not really vintage, but it has that older feel to it. The artwork reminds me of classic illustration styles. Givin shows cats doing normal cat things that match up with the tarot meanings, no weird human-cat hybrids or anything like that.
Publishers need to stop slapping random tabbies onto RWS scenes and calling it 'cat tarot.'If you want cats that actually mean something, check out Tarot of Pagan Cats
You want cute and big, Schrödinger’s cat deck. Also check the basics: card size and finish. If you read reversals, make sure the backs are two-way.
My first was the Tarot of the Cat People, and I still use it pretty regularly. The deck is based on Andre Norton’s books, Mark of the Cat and Year of the Cat.
Pretty sure Lunaea Weatherstone’s Mystical Cats is the same deck mentioned earlier, but I’ll call it out anyway. She blends the classic meanings with believable cat behavior, so the images make sense in a spread. The Three of Swords as a cat missing their human is a solid example.
I’ve been using the Mystical Cats deck as my main deck for a few years now.