The Halloween-Inspired Decor Trend You'll Be Seeing Everywhere In Fall 2025

Spooky season is officially upon us, but while we love a good jack-o'-lantern and ghost motif, the same old Halloween canon can get a bit boring year after year. So if you're in the market for some new Halloween decorating ideas that aren't just of the usual orange and black variety, you're in luck, because there's one Halloween trend that's full of mystery and magic and sure to be all the rage this year: tarot-inspired decor.

If you feel like you've been seeing or hearing a lot about tarot lately, it isn't déjà vu or a sign from the divine. Tarot — a set of 78 playing cards commonly used in fortune-telling — is indeed on the rise and becoming more ingrained in pop culture, with the tarot card industry projected to become a $93.80 million market by 2027. And it's already spilling over into home decor; Yankee Candle has a Mystical Tarot Card scent sold at Target, and Michaels is selling an assortment of tarot-themed mugs to sip from.

Some people, especially Gen Z and millennials, reach for their tarot decks as a form of therapy and comfort in uncertain times, and even fashionable A-listers such as Maisie Williams and Christina Ricci have shared their love of a good tarot reading. But while tarot cards can be a bit of fun or relaxing diversion from the stress of everyday life, their centuries-old history and association with the occult also make them perfect for introducing a bit of mystery and the supernatural into your Halloween home design and great additions if you want to decorate for Halloween with vintage-inspired items.

While the origins of tarot are a bit dubious, the Western version as we know it first appeared in Europe around the 15th century. It was a playing card game that was particularly popular among the nobility of Renaissance-era Italian courts. Tarot's association with divination and fortune-telling didn't emerge until the late 18th century. It became especially popular around the Victorian era of the late 19th century and again during the New Age movement of the 1970s.

The 78-card deck includes 22 cards known as the Major Arcana and 56 cards known as the Minor Arcana, with each card ascribed some special meaning when used as a form of divination to offer insight into a person's past, present, or future. The Minor Arcana are separated into four suits: cups, swords, pentacles or coins, and batons or wands. Each suit explores different life topics, such as money and material things, which correspond with pentacles or coins, and emotions, which correspond with cups. The Major Arcana or trump cards, on the other hand, represent major life moments and archetypes, such as The Fool, Death, and The Lovers.

If you're ready to bring some of the mystery and magic of tarot into your Halloween decorating, there are lots of ways to incorporate the trend. With tarot's ever-increasing popularity, it's easy to find home items embellished with illustrations of tarot motifs. A wooden tarot card tabletop display, for example, pays homage to traditional decks. If you're going for something a little more subtle, you can lean into a celestial vibe by emphasizing tarot's astrological elements of the sun, moon, and stars with a mystical table runner. Or you can fully embrace tarot's witchier side by decorating with items featuring Death or The Devil cards, such as a headless horseman Death card tapestry.

While tarot can surely fit in nicely with your Halloween getup, one of the best parts about this decor trend is that the designs and illustrations are beautiful pieces of artwork that won't feel out of place long after you've swept away the fake cobwebs, cleaned up the cheap plastic pumpkins you transformed into fall porch decor, and taken down other Halloween knickknacks. The illustrations that adorn tarot cards are often museum-worthy pieces of art that take inspiration from the medieval or art nouveau periods and can be left up year-round, if you wish. They can even double as decor for other holidays; items featuring The Lovers would make fitting Valentine's Day touches.