![]() Divided into the Major and Minor Arcanas, the cards still have the original design by Pamela Colman Smith, carried out in accordance with A. First issued in 1910, each card is rich in symbolism and striking in its design. 'Extremely happy with the value and quality of these tarot cards' - ***** Reader review 'This is my favourite deck, I love it and feel such a connection with it' - ***** Reader review 'The only set worth having!' - ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************** The Original Rider Waite Tarot is the most popular and widely used tarot card deck in the world. With 78 cards and an instructional booklet, it is perfect for people beginning to connect with Tarot, and those more experienced readers. ![]() The lack of overt occult attributions and the Christian symbolism set this deck apart from other occult decks of the time such as the Egyptian decks or Oswald Wirth’s deck.The Original Rider Waite Tarot is the most popular and widely used tarot card deck in the world. Most importantly, Waite does not associate the Hebrew alphabet with the cards, which is the essence of occult Tarot. The card meanings are drawn partly from the Golden Dawn and partly from Etteilla. The Major Arcana are based on the Tarot de Marseilles with flourishes from Eliphas Levi’s descriptions and Waite’s personal symbolism. The deck contains many echoes of Smith’s illustration style, which shows she had a good deal of autonomy in creating the Minor Arcana images. Smith did research in the British Museum because she lifted some images directly from the 15 th century Sola Busca deck in the museum’s collection (notably the 3 of Swords and 10 of Wands). ![]() Recently, the tarot community has been correcting this injustice by referring to the deck as the Rider Waite Smith (RWS) or Waite Smith deck (WS). She not only didn’t benefit financially from the deck, but the publisher’s name was put on the deck instead of hers. He chose her for the job because of her talent, their common membership in the Golden Dawn, and because he believed her clairvoyant abilities would help her perceive the higher mystical truths he was attempting to convey with his deck. In 1909, Waite paid Smith a flat fee for illustrating his Tarot deck. She was also known for going into a trance and channeling drawings while listening to music, many years before the surrealists experimented with automatism in art. B Yeats and his brother on various literary and theatrical projects illustrated sheet music, advertisements, and children’s books and published illustrated literary magazines. During the high point of her career, from 1890 to 1910, she collaborated with W. In 1901 she acquired a London studio where she entertained her artistic and literary friends by dressing up in costume and telling Jamaican folk tales with an ethnic accent while using a miniature cardboard theater as a prop. She studied art at the Pratt Institute in New York then toured with an English theater company as a costume and set designer. Pamela Colman Smith was born in London to American parents and spent part of her childhood in Jamaica. His fascination with the occult scene drew him into membership in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but his spirituality gradually evolved away from ceremonial magic and toward Christian mysticism. In 1889, under the pseudonym Grand Orient, he published A Handbook of Cartomancy, Fortune-Telling, and Occult Divination, one of the first books in English on how to read tarot. Waite, the creator of the world’s most influential Tarot deck, was a spiritual seeker and mystic who supported himself with freelance translation and writing. Waite and were published by the Rider Company.Ī. The cards were drawn by illustrator Pamela Colman Smith from the instructions of academic and mystic A. Other names for this deck include the Smith-Waite, Waite-Smith, Rider-Waite-Smith, or simply the Rider tarot deck. ![]() The Rider Waite tarot deck originally published in 1910, is one of the most popular tarot decks in use for divination in the English-speaking world.
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