The Original Rider Waite Tarot Deck: 78 beautifully illustrated cards and instructional booklet

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Even if you have a sixth sense, it is much easier to ask for the basics first than to try to know the truth intuitively. Rider and Co did not put out another edition until the seventies when they re-packaged what was in effect the US Games edition, manufactured by AGM Muller.

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It is this harmony of the minds of Waite and Smith that created the deck most of us today refer to as the “Tarot”. KNIGHT OF WANDS—He is shown as if upon a journey, armed with a short wand, and although mailed is not on a warlike errand. In the year 1369 playing cards are not mentioned in a decree issued by Charles VI of France against various forms of gambling; however, 28 years later, the Prevot of Paris, in an ordinance dated January 22, 1397, forbids working people from playing tennis, ball, cards, or ninepins excepting only on holidays. Divinatory Meanings: The surety of possessions, cleaving to that which one has, gifts, legacy, inheritance. The Wands, for example, are often associated with spiritual matters, while the Cups are emotional, the Swords are intellectual, and the Pentacles are material.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Tarot cards were illustrated only on the Major Arcana cards. Divinatory Meanings: Fairy favors, images of reflection, imagination, sentiment, things seen in the glass of contemplation, some attainment in these degrees but nothing permanent or substantial is suggested. FOUR OF CUPS—A young man is seated under a tree and contemplates three cups set on the grass before him.

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Divinatory Meanings: The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are entirely antithetical—giving joy, mildness, timidity, honor, modesty. Reversed: The accounts vary; good woman, otherwise, distinguished woman but one not to be trusted, perverse woman, vice, dishonor, depravity. THREE OF WANDS—A calm, stately figure, with his back turned, looking from a cliff ’s edge at ships passing over the sea. People look at the card and sympathize that we have all had sleepless nights thinking, the past cannot be changed, or that the present is confusing.Waite begins by talking a little about the symbolism in the Tarot, and about the Tarot offering a key to the mysteries of the spiritual world. Tarot is an esoteric, historical and artistic discipline, and the symbols in the Tarot deck are its own language, helping users to connect and understand the message the cards are trying to convey. She introduced narrative scenes and characters to the minor arcana cards, elevating their interpretive potential and making them more accessible to a broader audience.