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

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Kaplan, Stuart R. (2018). Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story. Stamford, Connecticut: U.S. Game Systems. p.371. ISBN 9781572819122. 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.

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Step 6 – Pay attention to the color scheme of each card. What mood does that color convey? What is the main color? What do they add to the meaning of the card? For those who are using or interested in Tarot cards, especially beginners, the hardest part is interpreting the cards. Most online documents today only give the “description” or “meaning” of the cards with some vaguely general definitions. And sometimes finding out the information when spreading the cards is only rough or general according to intuition. 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. 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.Dean, Liz (2015). The Ultimate Guide to Tarot: A Beginner's Guide to the Cards, Spreads, and Revealing the Mystery of the Tarot. Beverly, Massachusetts: Fair Winds Press. p.9. ISBN 978-1592336579. 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. 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. Graham, Sasha (2018). Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider–Waite–Smith Tarot. Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 978-0738753195. Step 7 – Then describe the shape or character in the card. Describe their clothes, posture, expressions, attitudes. Imagine what they would say if you could hear them.

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wine is on the arched counter behind him. Divinatory Meanings: Concord, contentment, physical bien-être; also victory, success, advantage, satisfaction for the Querent or person for whom the consultation is made. Reversed: Truth, loyalty, liberty. But the readings vary and include mistakes, imperfections, etc. EIGHT OF CUPS—A man of dejected aspect is deserting the cups of his felicity, enterprise, undertaking or previous concern. Divinatory Meanings: The card speaks for itself on the surface, but other readings are entirely antithetical—giving joy, mildness, timidity, honor, modesty. Reversed: Great joy, happiness, feasting. SEVEN OF CUPS—Strange chalices of vision. 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. Reversed: Desire, will, determination, project. SIX OF CUPS—Children in an old garden, their cups filled with flowers. Divinatory Meanings: A card of memories and of the past. For example, reflecting on childhood, happiness, enjoyment, but coming rather from the past, things that have vanished. Another reading reverses this, suggesting new relations, new environment and new knowledge. Reversed: Renewal, the future, that which will come to pass presently. 21 Step 10 – Once you start speaking, don’t doubt yourself. Just go with that flow and continue to describe the flow of consciousness. Maybe random words and phrases will pop into your head. Say them out loud several times, even though it doesn’t make much sense. That is because the Tarot cards sometimes communicate with us through puns and punchlines. For example, you could say “Sun” (The Sun Tarot card), but the querent may hear “son”, and this would make the perfect message. At any level of meaning, expressing your impressions will help you evaluate each card, and you will even surprise yourself with the accuracy of your perception and intuition.Step 2 – Begin by reading the name of the Tarot card aloud. You can say “This card is Queen of Swords” An explanation of the personal kind–An illustration from mystic literature–A subject which calls to be rescued–Limits and intention of the work. WANDS KING OF WANDS—The physical and emotional nature to which this card is attributed is dark, ardent, lithe, animated, impassioned, noble. He The cards themselves are presented in text version only, with no graphic of the card. From the book: the priesthood, also unfortunate combinations, disunion, competing interests. 15. THE DEVIL—Ravage, violence, force, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, fatality, that which is predestined but not for this reason evil. Reversed: Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness. 16. THE TOWER—Misery, distress, ruin, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception. Reversed: According to one account, the same in a lesser degree, also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny. 17. THE STAR—Loss, theft, privation, abandonment, although another reading suggests hope and bright prospects in the future. Reversed: Arrogance, impotence, haughtiness. 18. THE MOON—Hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, error. Reversed: Instability, inconstancy, silence, lesser degrees of deception and error. 19. THE SUN—Material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment. Reversed: The same in a lesser sense. 20. THE LAST JUDGMENT—Change of position, renewal, outcome. Reversed: Weakness, pusillanimity, simplicity, also deliberation, decision, sentence.

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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 33In 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. a b Kaplan, Stuart R. (2018). Pamela Colman Smith: The Untold Story. Stamford, Connecticut: U.S. Game Systems. pp.74–76. ISBN 9781572819122. An image and its story form a symbol, and the Tarot can be viewed as a book of symbols. As A. E. Waite wrote in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: “The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.” Or as Willian Gray stated in Magical Ritual Methods: “Magical symbols are fundamental concepts for energy-exchanges between very different levels (or “worlds”) of living.” a b Michelsen, Teresa (2005). The Complete Tarot Reader: Everything You Need to Know from Start to Finish. Llewellyn Publications. p.105. ISBN 0738704342.