RWS

Who else uses RWD? Also what books do you use to look up the meeting of the cards. Does anyone use the Irene Gad and Jana Riley books Thank you!

The Rider Waite decks are my favorite! These are so easy to understand and comprehend.

What do you think about the swords stuck on the deck of the boat? Ive understood it as a positive card, about leaving troubles and moving on to better things, but somehow I'm worried that the swords would pierce through the wood creating holes on the boat, and it might sink. What do you think? Maybe its just my personal view... I've always been somehow afraid of deep water, so being on boats scares me. I cannot look at this card without fearing that it'll sink. But wouldn't the swords create holes on it? Also this card reminds me of having seen news about refugees fleeing war, looking for a better life and then dying in the sea... do you associate this kind of…

For the last year or so I've been studying Tarot de Marseille and building my particular system for reading the deck. In the process, I realized that I wanted to apply a similar kind of systematizing to my approach to the Rider Waite. I've been working with the Rider Waite almost exclusively since around 2004-2005, and in the ensuing time I've evolved a workable set of meanings and associations for each card. At the same time, in the last few years I've found my readings with the deck to be a bit...immaterial? Broad? In other words, my readings tend toward lots of vague discussions of change, internal qualities of character and such, but not always very useful information…

I'm a big fan of the art on these cards. This is an exclusive project for a TV series and is not for sale. I'm curious to know if anyone knows of any similar deck that I can buy. thanks in advance!

Maybe someone has mentioned it before but recently while doing some research on a German deck I came across an amazing German language deck database with complete scans for 170 different decks. there's a page for each card showing that card for all 170 decks on the same page, and if you click any individual image it takes you to a page with only that image where you can click right or left to see the next or previous card in the same deck, including decent resolution scans for all 78 cards in every deck. this seems incredibly useful for researching various decks or comparing corresponding artwork across many decks. very cool! http://www.albideuter.de/html/narr…

Greetings! I was recently fortunate enough to acquire a 1968 mini Albano Waite. I almost didn't. It looked too clean, too new, the price was too low - IOW, too good to be true. I wasn't looking for an investment ("Accurate color tones!") just a good 1968 Albano ("NewColor Deluxe Edition"). When I saw this deck on ebay, I immediately jeered it as a bootleg. So much gratitude to @Rodney for giving me *just* enough encouragement to roll the dice: It arrived this morning. As new-looking as the photos on ebay. Go through the deck - check. Cards are all there. Colors - check. Box, check. But is it a scanned bootleg? One thing really bugged me: the sides are n…

Can any one assist with most reliable resources that define the history and meaning of the back of this card? Deck is Centennial edition Waite Smith.

I'm really interested in the symbolism in tarot and my readings come from the symbols in the cards. For my reference library, I wanted some great books about the symbolism in RWS, to refer to if I ever need to research symbols. Something more meaty and for reference than books about reading the tarot. So, do you have a fave or best RWS book like this? From looking on google, I know there is..... The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot by Evelin Burger and Johannes Fiebig (this seems to be from a quite Christian perspective according to reviews) Llewellyn's Complete Book of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot by Sasha Graham…

Greetings. I acquired this edition of the deck. Does the flower on the back of the card have any meaning according to Pixie or RW?

Greetings, I made a promise to show a pic of the back of the German pressing of the RWS premium edition, and I cannot locate that chat. So Here's a fresh post and I hope all who desire to see it find the path. My personal deck is on the left, it is the Centennial edition, standard size. On the right is also a standard, and it is my brand new from across-the-pond A.E. Waite Premium copy, which will be for clients only. Quite a difference, isn't there? Which do you prefer?

Hey y'all! I was curious to what some of your interpretations of this mural/painting in the card is. It looks like a castle/lighthouse on a shore. The border is like a black and white chess board pattern. It's also located behind the old man's head, as well as by the three pentacles that would represents the Pillar of Severity on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Personally, one way I saw it was all the established wealth in this card was just originally a dream or fantasy. The older man had to have drive and patience to get his desired outcome. It's possible that his original idea of wealth and legacy didn't play out or manifest in the way he thought it would, but r…

I got my first RWS Deck back in 1996 and while I still have the cards (wrapped in dark silk and kept in a wooden box), I have lost the original box and LWB. I have the miniature version included in the Universal Waite miniature deck in a tin and was wondering if it is the same. I've got a copy of 'The Key to the Tarot' by Waite with a forward by Liz Greene and can see the texts are derived from the same source. Are the original versions likely to be online to be online somewhere? The reason I want it is to do a video recap of my introduction to the cards.

(I really wasn't sure where to put this, so mods please move it if you see fit.) It's a "whatever happened to...?" blog post with a small reading and some theorizing. I had fun doing it. https://fennario.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/frankie-albano-please-call-home/ But I know a lot of you must have a different pet theory, or maybe you'd just like to post a reading on this. This is the thread for that!

Hi everyone! I am struggling with the meaning of nine of swords and death in the context of what I should cut off my life, something I should let go of. Can anyone please help me out? Blessed be.

Hello I’m quite new in tarot world, and I would like to listen to different points of view regarding reading and interpretation of cards. How would you read in a friendship related question these 3 cards: First - High Priestess Middle Page of Pentacles in reverse Third 4 of wands in reverse

Hey all. I'm new here. I've been reading tarots for a few years now. I'm currently in a relationship crisis...I won't go into details but I've been turning to tarot for guidance. Something about reading tarots for yourself while you're going through a difficult time... it makes you question the cards yourself and it is hard to separate myself from the situation to read the cards as they are. Wondering if anyone has further insight on this read? I asked: HOW will *name* and I be together again? The cards that flew from the deck are: 2 of cups followed by The Magician At the bottom of the deck: King of pentacles (interestingly the person I'm askin…

I'm not as experienced with Tarot but very interested to learn. I've tried to do a reading with three cards asking of someone will contact me in one week. The cards I got were Judgment, Knight of Wands, and Chariot. I asked the cards what action is he going to take with Chariot and got Ace of Wands. Will he contact me in one week? I personally would read this as a yes but not too sure. The contact would be by phone or text message. Any help and explanation would be appreciated. Answer

I have always loved tarot cards and having my tarot read, but never practised it myself until recently and wow, I have not been disappointed. My readings have been so incredibly accurate and I am enjoying every minute of it. I am creating a guidebook for myself with meanings and keywords. Another thing I would like to learn is letters that may appear in the shapes on each card. The psychic I see as well as a workmate practising tarot can both easily see letters in each of the cards. So for example, on The Fool card, I can see the letter "C" in his right arm and the letter "A" with his legs/the mountain. I was wondering if anyone ha…

I saw the Radiant Wise on Amazon, the one published by Llewellyn. But one of the reviews there said to get the Lo Scarabeo published one rather than the Llewellyn and gave an ISBN number. I found it on Amazon, not easily, and it said it was 18 and change, quite a bit less than the Llewellyn published one. An hour later, I looked at it in my orders and the price had gone up to over $40! In an hour. So glad I picked it up the Lo Scarabeo for so much less, timing is everything on Amazon, Anyway, I was wondering for those who have both decks, do you prefer one printing over the other? I'm getting it tomorrow, but I won't have the Llewellyn to compare to, so.…

Hello, I am new to the forum so I am not sure if there is another part of the forum that is much more fitting to post this thread: please bear with me. For a while now, I have been looking for a particular tarot deck. As the title implies I am looking for the Lovers' Tarot by Jane Lyle. I have looked online as to where I could possibly purchase the deck but to no avail; I could not find a seller. The question I have now is: Is this deck no longer in print? Any information on this deck, or a definitive answer to this question, is greatly appreciated. Blessings and best wishes to you all.

Tired of the Fool's Journey, self-discovery, psychological nuance, and Hermetic analysis in your tarot? Come back with me to the days when American tarot was just for fortune-telling. Come with me to a time before the Beatles, before Eden Gray; back to the Kennedy administration, when New York publishers didn't blink at saying to hell with British copyright. I'm talking about 1961-63, when the Merrimack Publishing Corp. hoisted the skull and crossbones and released a swipe of the (already pirated) University Books RWS deck. Squeezing their pennies till they gasped, Merrimack condensed Waite’s Pictorial Key to the Tarot into 5 columns of tiny type on 11 inches …

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This deck was recently recommended but I can’t seem to find it on the MPC website. Has it been deleted/made OOP? I’d really like to purchase a copy. best, Jay