![]() ![]() ![]() When the Rider Waite was published, the process of getting pictures to card stock was comparatively easier. Tarot historians have recognised that the roots of some of the Waite-Smith cards go back as far as 1491, when the Sola Busca Tarocchi cards were created for an Italian family of that name, their images engraved on copper printing plates and the cards later hand-painted. The similarity to a decorative, playing-card arrangement is no coincidence part of Tarot’s roots lie in Italian Tarocchi - cards designed for Tarocco, a trick-taking game. Pip-based Minors, on decks like the Tarot de Marseille, or IJJ Swiss show a geometric arrangement of markers, such as six cups, lined up in a uniform, oblong pattern. Traditional decks frequently had ‘pips’ on the Minor cards (ie, the 40 numbered suit cards that form around half the 78 card deck). ![]() ![]() Whilst the Rider Waite is not the first deck to have featured a full, figurative picture on every card, this was unusual for its time. Already, rather like in a captured moment in a photo, we can see some sort of ‘story’ here, one of innocence, gifts, love, kindness and growth. The boy smells the flowers in a pot that he offers to the girl, whose hand is outstretched, ready to receive them. As an example, the Six of Cups depicts two children in a garden, with pots filled with white flowers around them. People new to Tarot are often surprised to find they can immediately start applying basic interpretation skills with the Rider Waite. The cards are a good size, with clear images, depicting recognisable scenes and characters from life, without over-complicated detail. I could use other decks, but I use the Rider Waite because it is the one people will have usually seen used in films and also because it presents an easy set of images to relate to. In my own mentoring and training work, I have followed her lead and introduced students to the subject through the Rider Waite images I even show them to attendees at my weekly Tarot talk, in a local health spa resort. The teacher generously shared a selection of decks, for us to marvel at their arts and styles, but it was the Rider deck she used for teaching card meanings. Teaching often centres on the Rider Waite cards, too I first came across them at a local Tarot class. When I was first interested to learn Tarot, such cards were not easy to locate and, if a high street bookstore was going to stock any, it was always the Rider Waite. The Rider Waite Tarot continues to be one of the most widely used Tarot decks, with various reasons for its enduring popularity, including its ready availability. To learn more visit our Tarot Articles Section The reason there are so many different kinds of Tarot decks is that Different Tarot decks may present this energy in different pictorial form. And each card, through the picture on the card, is trying to help you to feel the specific energy of that card. There are 4 suits (referred to as the minor arcana) and 22 other cards (referred to as the major arcana). The Tarot is a specific system that has 78 cards in total. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony. His strong interest in all esoteric matters, such as divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony, led to him penning a number of books. Waite joined the Hemetic Order of the Golden Dawn, became a Freemason in 1901 and entered the Societas Rosicruciana in 1902. Waite was born in 1857 in the US, but was brought up from a young age in Britain, after his father died. The cards were commissioned by Waite and drawn by Pamela Colman-Smith, one of his contemporaries. The classic Rider Waite Tarot was the first tarot deck to fully illustrate all 78 cards, with detailed pictures on the minor arcana cards. Waite - Designer of the Rider Waite TarotĪ E Waite – also known as Arthur Edward Waite – was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. ![]()
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