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Choose a beginner-friendly spread to guide your reading You can use a "spread" to guide your reading. A spread assigns each card that is dealt a different meaning.
Create your spread: Organize the cards that come out in a spread format of your choice. Feel free to tap into the three-card spread suggested above. Feel free to tap into the three-card spread ...
Stuart R. Kaplan's U.S. Games Systems, which had been founded in 1968 to import copies of the Swiss 1JJ Tarot, was well positioned to take advantage of this explosion and reissued the then out-of-print Rider–Waite–Smith Tarot in 1970, which has not gone out of print since. [86] Tarot card reading quickly became associated with New Age ...
Etteilla, the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist and tarot-researcher, who was the first to develop an interpretation concept for the tarot cards and made a significant contribution to the esoteric development of the tarot cards to a wide audience (from 1783), [1] and therefore the ...
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is a divinatory tarot guide, with text by A. E. Waite and illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. Published in conjunction with the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck , the pictorial version (released 1910, dated 1911) [ 1 ] followed the success of the deck and Waite's (unillustrated 1909) text The Key to the Tarot ...
The King of Swords card from the Rider–Waite tarot. The Minor Arcana, sometimes known as the Lesser Arcana, are the suit cards in a cartomantic tarot deck.. Ordinary tarot cards first appeared in northern Italy in the 1440s and were designed for tarot card games. [1]
In the late 18th century French occultists made elaborate, but unsubstantiated, claims about their history and meaning, leading to the emergence of custom decks for use in divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy. [1] Thus, there are two distinct types of tarot packs in circulation: those used for card games and those used for divination.
The card pictured is the Wheel Of Fortune card from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. A.E. Waite was a key figure in the development of the tarot in line with the Hermetic magical-religious system which was also being developed at the time, [1] and this deck, as well as being in common use today, also forms the basis for a number of other modern ...