The Original Rider Waite Tarot Deck

This set comes with The Magician wooden Box

The Rider-Waite Tarot is one of two predominant Tarot decks in modern times - the other being Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot.

The Original Rider-Waite Tarot is a copy of the original deck, in which one of the major adjustments was improved depth of color. (note: The original palates were destroyed during the bombing on London during WW II.) The cards themselves are 2 3/4" by 4 3/4", of good quality, glossy card stock. The backs show a 1/4" white border surrounding the re-instituted background of white and blue Tudor roses and Lilies. The faces show the same 1/4" white border surrounding a central picture. The Greater Arcana show the card number at the top of the card, with the title across the bottom. The court cards show the suit and title across the bottom of the card. The pips show the card number across the top of the card, with full scenes in each card.

Each card is rich in symbolism and clear in its design. It doesn't have the more modern appeal of some recently published decks, but there are many subtleties in these paintings, which means that years after starting to use this deck you will be noticing new details.

Information Pack information:
Card dimensions: Original Rider Waite tarot cards are 70 x 120 mm
Authors: A. E. Waite & Pamela Colman Smith Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942)

Arthur Edward Waite was a leading scholar of the occult who produced the Rider Waite deck in 1910 in collaboration with artist Pamela Colman Smith. It has been the best selling Tarot deck of the twentieth century. Each card is rich in symbolism and clear in its design. It doesn't have the more modern appeal of some recently published decks, but there are many subtleties in these paintings, which means that years after starting to use this deck you will be noticing new details. Many Tarot books use the Rider Waite deck for their illustrations

A great tarot deck for beginners and for advanced!
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Why The Magician?


When the Magician appears in a spread, it points to the talents, capabilities and resources at the querent's disposal. Depending on the card's placement in relation to other cards, the message is to tap into one's full potential rather than holding back, especially when there is a need to transform something. There are choices and directions to take. Guidance can arrive through one's own intuition or in the form of someone who brings about change or transformation.

The card can mean that a manipulator is floating around, usually if it's reversed. He may be a beneficent guide,. He may also represent the querent’s ego or self-awareness. He can also represent the intoxication of power, both good and bad.

According to Arthur Edward Waite, this card signifies the divine motive in man.It is also the unity of the individual being on all planes, and in a very high sense it is thought. With further reference to the "sign of life", i.e. the infinity symbol and its connection with the number 8, it may be remembered that Christian Gnosticism speaks of rebirth in Christ as a change "unto the Ogdoad." The mystic number is termed Jerusalem above, the Land flowing with Milk and Honey, the Holy Spirit and the Land of the Lord. 8 is the number of Christ. so ideal as guardian of your destiny
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