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Gertrude Charlotte Moakley (February 18, 1905 – March 28, 1998) was an American librarian and a Tarot scholar. [1] Moakley is notable for having written the earliest and most significant account of the iconography of Tarot, a card game which originated in the Italian Renaissance. [2]
This tarot deck became the standard among tarot card readers, and remains the most widely used today. [1] [2] [3] Smith also illustrated over 20 books, wrote two collections of Jamaican folklore, edited two magazines, and ran the Green Sheaf Press, a small press focused on women writers. [4]
In the occult tradition, tarot cards are referred to as "arcana", with the Fool and 21 trumps being termed the Major Arcana and the suit cards the Minor Arcana, [38] terms not used by players of tarot card games. The 78-card tarot deck used by esotericists has two distinct parts: The Major Arcana (greater secrets) consists of 22 cards without ...
Using tarot cards as a divination tool didn’t come about until the 1700s when Jean Baptiste-Alliette, known by the pseudonym Etteilla, published one of the first books on tarot being used in ...
The Rider–Waite Tarot is a widely popular deck for tarot card reading, [1] [2] first published by the Rider Company in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
The Rider–Waite tarot was notable for illustrating all 78 cards fully, at a time when only the 22 Major Arcana cards were typically illustrated, with the Sola Busca tarot, 1491, being a notable historical exception. Prior to the publication of this deck, many esoteric tarot readers used the Tarot de Marseille playing card deck.
Tarot’s true origin remains unknown, but the earliest cards can be traced back to 15th-century Italy. Originally crafted for playing card games, tarot decks gradually evolved to feature ...
The Universal Tarot card ties into numerology and is calculated by breaking down the year into single digits before adding them all together to find our universal number: 2024: 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 = 8