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The Rider Waite Smith Tarot is a widely popular deck for tarot card reading, [1] [2] first published by the Rider Company in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Tarot is a pack of playing cards with four suits and 21 trumps, originating from Italy in the 15th century. Learn about the different regional variations, the occult meanings and the history of tarot cards and games.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is a divinatory tarot guide, with text by A. E. Waite and illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith.Published in conjunction with the Rider–Waite tarot deck, the pictorial version (released 1910, dated 1911) [1] followed the success of the deck and Waite's (unillustrated 1909) text The Key to the Tarot. [2]
Learn about the first trump card in most tarot decks, symbolizing power, potential, and the unification of the physical and spiritual worlds. Explore its iconography, symbolism, and divinatory meanings in different contexts and traditions.
The Fool is a card in a tarot deck, often depicted as a jester or a beggar. It has a unique role in some tarot games, where it can excuse the player from following suit or playing a trump.
Learn about the suit of wands, one of the four suits in tarot, and its divinatory and occult meanings. Find out how the suit of wands relates to fire, creativity, ambition, and astrology signs.
Learn about the oldest surviving tarot cards, commissioned by the Visconti and Sforza families in Renaissance Milan. See the designs, meanings and history of the trumps, face cards and pip cards, including the missing Devil and Tower.
The name Tarot de Marseille is not of particularly ancient vintage; it was coined as late as 1856 by the French card historian Romain Merlin, and was popularized by French cartomancers Eliphas Levi, Gérard Encausse, and Paul Marteau who used this collective name to refer to a variety of closely related designs that were being made in the city of Marseilles in the south of France, a city that ...