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

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lion’s head. Divinatory Meanings: Love, passion, friendship, affinity, union, concord, sexual relations. That which nature has santified. Reversed: False love, folly, misunderstanding. ACE OF CUPS—The waters are beneath, upon which are water lilies. The hand issues from the cloud, holding in its palm the cup, from which four streams are pouring. A dove, bearing in its beak a cross-marked host, descends to place the wafer in the cup—the dew of water is falling on all sides. It is an intimation of that which may lie behind the Lesser Arcana. Divinatory Meanings: True heart, joy, contentment, abode, nourishment, abundance, fertility, holy table, felicity. Reversed: False heart, mutation, instability, revolution.

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head of the Significator, and say: “This crowns him.” It represents (a) the best that he can arrive at, or (b) his ideal in the matter; (c) what he wants to make his own; (d) but it is not his own at present. Turn up the FOURTH CARD; place it below the feet of the Significator, and say: “This is beneath him.” It is his own—that which he has to work with and can use. Turn up the FIFTH CARD; place it on the side that the Significator is looking away from, and say: “This is behind him.” It is the current from which he is passing away, and it may be the past of the matter. Turn up the SIXTH CARD; place it on the side that the Significator is facing, and say: “This is before him.” It is the current that is coming into action and will operate in the specific matter. The first six cards (plus the Significator card) are now disposed in the form of a cross. The next four cards are turned up in succession and placed to your right, one card above another. The SEVENTH signifies himself, his attitude and relation to the matter. The EIGHTH CARD signifies his house, his environment in the affair—the influence, people and events about him. The NINTH CARD signifies his hopes and fears. The TENTH CARD represents what will come. It is on this card that you concentrate your intuitive powers, your experience and your memory in 33 THE LESSER ARCANA Otherwise, the Four Suits of Tarot Cards will now be described according to their respective classes by the pictures to each belonging, and a harmony of their meanings provided from all sources. Pamela Colman Smith was born in England to American parents. Her childhood years were spent between London, New York and Kingston, Jamaica. She became a theatrical designer, even collaborating with the notable W.B. Yeats on stage designs. She was an illustrator mainly of books, pamphlets and posters too. Hey there! I know this is kind of off topic but I was wondering if you knew where I could locate a captcha plugin for my comment form? Divided into the Major and Minor Arcanas, the cards still have the original design by Pamela Colman Smith, carried out in accordance with A. E. Waite's instructions.

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In the middle of the early years of the twentieth century, despite her natural talent trained in the artistic environment, she still endured social derision due to her pursuit of a single life, working and roaming everywhere while almost all young women of her same age were married and chose to live as a housewife. WANDS KING OF WANDS—The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. He CUPS KING OF CUPS—He holds a short scepter in his left hand and a great cup in his right, his throne is set upon the sea, on one side a ship is riding and on the other a dolphin is leaping. The implicit is that the sign of the Cup naturally refers to water, which appears in all the court cards. Divinatory Meanings: Fair man, man of business, law, or divinity, responsible, disposed to oblige the Querent. Also equity, art and science, including those who profess science, law and art, creative intelligence. Reversed: Dishonest, double-dealing man, roguery, exaction, injustice, vice, scandal. QUEEN OF CUPS—Beautiful, fair, dreamy woman (as one who sees visions in a cup). Divinatory Meanings: Good, fair woman, honest, devoted, who will do service to the Querent. Loving intelligence, and hence the gift of vision, success, happiness, pleasure, also wisdom, virtue. Reversed: The accounts vary; good woman, otherwise, distinguished woman but one not to be trusted, perverse woman, vice, dishonor, depravity. KNIGHT OF CUPS—Graceful, not warlike, riding quietly, wearing a winged helmet, referring to the higher graces of the imagination which sometimes characterize this card. Divinatory Meanings: Arrival, approach—sometimes that of a messenger, advances, proposition, demeanor, invitation, incitement. 19

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a b Kaplan, Stuart R. (2018). Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story. Stamford, Connecticut: U.S. Game Systems. pp.74–76. ISBN 9781572819122. Step 4 – If the card is in the Minor Arcana, summarize what you know about this suit. The Wands, for example, are often associated with spiritual matters, while the Cups are emotional, the Swords are intellectual, and the Pentacles are material. Having examined the little white book closely I began to realise that the publisher’s use of the word ‘original’ was rather ambiguous. In most cases any facsimile edition will usually give detailed information regarding the source material. This one does not. What I subsequently discovered is that this is not a reproduction of the first edition. Unlike with modern print techniques, as the plates wore out, the line drawings would have to be re-prepared. At the same time, practicing drawing a card to answer a simple question is also the most effective way to help readers remember the card.

merce; those are his ships, bearing his merchandise, which are sailing over the sea. Reversed: The end of troubles, suspension or end of adversity, disappointment, and toil. TWO OF WANDS—A tall man looks from a battlemented roof over sea and shore. He holds a globe in his right hand and a staff in his left rests on the battlement, another is fixed in a ring. The Rose and Cross and Lily should also be noticed on the left side. Divinatory Meanings: Between the alternative readings there is no marriage possible, on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence. And on the other, physical suffering, disease, chagrin, sadness, mortification. The design gives one suggestion— here is a lord overlooking his dominion and alternately contemplating a globe. It looks like the malady, the mortification, the sadness of Alexander amidst the grandeur of this world’s wealth. Reversed: Surprise, wonder, enchantment, emotion, trouble, fear. ACE OF WANDS—A hand issuing from a cloud grasps a stout Wand or Club. Divinatory Meanings: Creation, invention, enterprise, the powers which result in these, principle, beginning, source, birth, family, origin, the beginning of enterprises, according to another account—money, fortune, inheritance. Reversed: Fall, decadence, ruin, perdition, to perish, also—clouded joy. Step 9 – Since you read each Tarot card one by one, your eye may be drawn to a single image or symbol. That image may remind you of a word, phrase, or expression. It can create an image or a visual landscape in your mind. It can make you feel hot, cold, or elicit emotional reflexes. In fact, a Tarot card can activate one of your senses: seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and even tasting. Now, let’s put your reaction into words simply. Don’t worry if it is wrong or right, just express all your impressions of the card. The Sun. Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment; Reversed: The same in a lesser sense. Tarot itself is a fairly simple game. The instructions, with each card in its place having a specific purpose, are simple and easy. Over time, the cards can begin to really convey meaning, asking us to look more deeply into our motives, while pushing ourselves in the right direction. respect to the official divinatory meanings attached thereto. It should include whatsoever you may have divined from the other cards on the table, including the Significator itself and concerning him or it, not excepting such lights upon higher significance as might fall like sparks from heaven if the card which serves for the oracle, the card for reading, should happen to be a Trump Major. Thus basing your calculations, if you obtain a decisive judgment the reading is over, and you have only to formulate the result. In conclusion, as regards the question of complexions, their allocation to the Suits need not be taken conventionally. You can go by the temperament of a person; one who is exceedingly dark may be very energetic, and would be better represented by a Sword card than a Pentacle. On the other hand, a very fair person who was indolent and lethargic should be allocated to Cups rather than Wands. Great facility may be obtained by this method in a comparatively short time, allowance being always made for the gifts of the reader.