78
Days
Welcome to Rider Waite Smith; a 78 day chronicle of the Tarot and also of the workings of Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith.
We hope to bring you our take on the cards, one day at a time. We welcome all positive comments on the cards, and hopefully to increase and share our own knowledge on the cards and their meanings.
There is no right or wrong with the Tarot, and the cards are deeply personal and we look forward to hearing your views and interpretations.
The Lovers
Attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome. Reversed – failure, foolish designs. Another account speaks of marriage frustrated and contrarieties of all kinds.
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The Devil
The Fool
Two of Wands
Eight of Cups
King of Wands
Majors
The Hermit
Prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption. Reversed – concealment, disguise, policy, fear, unreasoned caution.
Minors
Four of Swords
So, today, we have the Four of Swords. Waite gives this card the following meanings: Vigilance, retreat, solitude, hermit’s repose, exile, tomb and coffin. It is these last that have suggested the design. Reversed – wise administration, circumspection, economy, avarice, precaution, testament. To me, the imagery of the card tells the whole story. It is […]
Courts
King of Swords
And today we have the King of Swords. As usual, I’ll give Waite’s representation of the card, being: Whatsoever arises out of the idea of judgment and all its connexions-power, command, authority, militant intelligence, law, offices of the crown, and so forth. Reversed – cruelty, perversity, barbarity, perfidy, evil intention. The swords are all about […]