RWS

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

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!

There is much symbolism in the Rider Waite Deck. Which is your favorite symbol? Or which symbol means the most to you?

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 had this idea to start this thread for anyone who is brand new to Tarot and learning from the Rider Waite. If you have any insights on the Rider Waite Smith deck and/or helpful tips for reading and understanding the cards, please share them here? 😊 Welcome all, and here we go.... I love how the more I learn about this deck, the more I also learn about myself. Anyone else experiencing this? I used to feel that my logical mind was causing me to place intuitive blocks on myself. But I'm learning that isn't true at all. Turns out I'm much more intuitive than I thought I was, using it in pretty much every situation.

I am always curious why someone has a type they prefer, or only use. I am definitely an RWS Crone. I know the reasons why. * Started with an RWS deck, so now it's just familiar * I'm visual (in other words, I like there are illustrated images that correspond to each card) * TdM decks I find BEAUTIFUL, but the pips don't inspire me to read with them To be honest, I haven't even approached the Thoth, probably for the same reason I didn't pursue the TdM very vigorously. I'm happy with the RWS decks I have and like reading with them. KUDOS to all who are "multi-lingual" when it comes to switching effortlessly between RWS, TdM and Thoth. So...if you are…

What is your favourite card in the RWS? And why? Mine is the high priestess. I like her mysterious look.

Personally, I love it because its straight forward. It is a great go to deck for quick and general messages. I haven't connected with them just yet but I sort of get them. I'm not sure if that makes 100% sense.

A lot of RWS cards are badly explained on the net. Feel free to post about that here! We'll start with the 8 of Pentacles. Andy's mentioned this before, and it's been on my mind: There's a man chiseling pentacles, much the way somebody might create a popular item again and again for their etsy shop. All the pentacles appear to be done correctly. There is no indication of another person on the card. So where are people getting "apprentice"? A google search on "8 of pentacles apprentice" returns 42,100 results. But there is no visual evidence of this. Waite says "An artist in stone at his work, which he exhibits in the form of t…

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

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…

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.…

Cliff: rashness, naivety, foolishness Dog: animal helper, guardian of the threshold, obedience, vigilance, fidelity, primitive instincts, unconscious animus, individuation, psychic evolution, trust, faith, guiding the souls of the dead, direction, protection Sun: optimism, primordial divinity, the God, cycles, fertility, the masculine, life versus death White Rose: purity, star, sun, regeneration, initiation, monastic wisdom, reunification of the world, aspiring love, the self, spirit over matter, life & death, secrecy, union of opposites, female energy, innocence Feel free to add other interpretations and symbol discussions as you see fit!

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…

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…

Infinity Symbol/The Lemniscant: infinite possibility, balance of opposites: male/female, dark/light, day/night, equality, wholeness, completion Ouroboros/Snake Belt: perpetual movement of the universe, infinity, unity, rebirth, life & death, cycles, Earth, creation, knowledge, sexuality, the unconscious, motion, continuity, self-fertilization, purity, wholeness Red Roses: the masculine, love, Venus, Aphrodite, spirit over matter, purity, life & death, heavenly perfection & earthly desire, fertility, chastity, secrecy, union of opposites, male energy, passion, star, sun, regeneration, initiation, silence, free thinking, wisdom, "the mysteries of spiritual…

Hi everyone, I almost never buy decks - in 40 or so years of reading tarot, I've managed to accumulate six decks in total. For years I read just the Sacred Rose, had a brief foray into the Thoth, but returned to the Rose; and then, three years ago, I bought and fell in love with the Radiant Wise Spirit, which I've been reading ever since. It's a wonderfully vibrant, well-made, sturdy, borderless deck that conveys with very high faithfulness Pamela's original drawings. A couple of weeks ago I discovered the Golden Art Nouveau Tarot, and thought it was beautiful. So, completely on impulse, I bought it, and it arrived today. I'll post so…

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 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!

hey everyone! I hope you're doing good! for the past few months I have tried to dive deeper into Waite's original meanings for the RWS Tarot. so, of course, I decided to start by reading the Pictorial Key to the Tarot... however, I soon ran into two obstacles. first things first, I am not a native English speaker – and Waite's writing style is pretty famous for being complex. so his book is pretty hard to decipher for me in the first place. secondly, I have no knowledge of esoteric subjects such as Kabbalah, astrology, and the like. these things make it really difficult for me to grasp the contents of the PKT. but I also don't want to g…

Okay, the Pictorial Key To The Tarot seems to wedge 0 - (the fool), between XX(last judgement) and XXI(The World). Wedging the Fool in that place seems... I don't know... it's not arbitrary, I mean the idea that the fool is caught between Judgement and The World seems quite poetic on some level, but it just feels 'forced'. Does anyone have any thoughts why he did this?

This may not be the best place for this, but wasn't sure which forum to use. I am very much a beginner, but have started doing a daily tarot card pull to work and learn the card I pull. I have RWS deck. Today I pulled the Tower and was sitting in the energy of it. I believe the the astrological planet for the Tower is Mars, but when sitting with the energy of it. I thought of Mars conjunct Uranus. This conjunction can lead to an explosion - shift in identity. Just curious if anyone else has made that association or if I am way off.

I am assuming its some kind of sign representing a blessing. Is there a name for it? Thanks.

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.