Tarot itself is experiencing a Renaissance. In short, the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot has been the most popular tarot deck for about a century, * and will likely continue to be. Tarot has touched every aspect of pop culture and art form and the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot is the most popular choice. The Magician, Death, the Hermit, and many more Rider-Waite cards have appeared in movies and television, in art and at concerts for decades. Even people who know nothing about tarot recognize Pixie's artwork and know that it's a tarot card. The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot is so popular it has become synonymous with "tarot." When you say the word "tarot" it's probably on of Smith's illustrations that pops into your mind's eye. With there are still quite a few tarot decks that use the ordering of the Marseilles decks, or create their own systems entirely, most tarot decks are based on the RWS Tarot. The Rider Waite Tarot is so popular that it has been the basis for many (if not most) other tarot decks. Rider-Waite Tarot Variations: Clones and Daughters But MOST tarot decks are based on the RWS Tarot, in numbering, symbolism, and card meaning. Some decks use the ordering of the Marseilles Tarot, or create their own systems entirely. The Rider Waite Tarot is so popular it has been the basis for many (if not most) other tarot decks. Whatever you call it, the Rider Waite Tarot is everywhere. It's such a popular tarot deck and is so frequently referenced that tarot enthusiasts often use the abbreviations "RW" or "RWS" to save time. Pretty much any combination of the words "Rider," "Waite," "Smith," or "Colman," are fair game. This has led to many calling it the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot, the Waite-Smith Tarot, or even the Waite-Colman Tarot. In recent years there has been a push to give more credit to the artist, Pamela Colman Smith, and rightly so. The Rider Tarot quickly became the Rider Waite Tarot, a tribute to its creator, or sometimes just the Waite deck. Since then The Rider Tarot has been known by many names. The tarot deck Waite and Smith created together is officially named The Rider Tarot – Rider being the name of the original publishers who first produced this deck in 1912. Some pip cards are abstract works of art while others are full tableaus of people in action. This gives all 78 cards a unique feel that fully expresses that individual card's story. In the Rider Waite Tarot each numbered suit card, or pip card, is fully illustrated. What Waite and Smith created was unlike any deck of tarot cards that had come before. Pixie, as she was known to friends, was a young and talented artist and a well-known illustrator for advertisements and theater bills. In the first decade of the 1900's, he commissioned a friend and fellow Golden Dawn member, Pamela Colman Smith, to illustrate a new deck of tarot cards. Frustrated with the limitations he saw in his Marseilles decks, he thought he could design a better tarot deck. We have lots of articles on Tarot.Arthur Edward Waite understood the rich symbolism and spiritual significance that is found in tarot. 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. Many Tarot books use the Rider Waite deck for their illustrations. It doesn’t have the more modern appeal of some recently published decks, but there are many subtleties in these paintings, which means that years after starting to use this deck you will be noticing new details. Each card is rich in symbolism and clear in its design. It has been the best selling Tarot deck of the twentieth century. Waite & Pamela Colman Smith Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) was a leading scholar of the occult who produced the Rider Waite deck in 1910 in collaboration with artist Pamela Colman Smith. The booklet gives a quick reference to the cards and the meaning.Ĭard dimensions: Original Rider Waite tarot cards are 70 x 120 mm.Īuthors: A. Pack information: 78 cards with a tiny booklet included in the box. The original and only authorised edition of the famous 78-card Tarot deck designed by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite.
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