![]() ![]() 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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