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 Fool
Two of Wands
Eight of Cups
King of Wands
Majors
The Tower
Misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin. It is a card in particular of unforeseen catastrophe. Reversed – according to one account, the same in a lesser degree also oppression, imprisonment, tyranny.
Minors
Nine of Pentacles
Today’s card is the Nine of Pentacles. As usual, I will give you Waite’s interpretation, being: Prudence, safety, success, accomplishment, certitude, discernment. Reversed – roguery, deception, voided project, bad faith. A lot of readers ascribe discipline to this card, and I meet that and the above somewhere in the middle. I see the Nine of Pentacles […]
Courts
Page of Pentacles
Application, study, scholarship, reflection, another reading says news, messages and the bringer thereof; also rule, management. Reversed – prodigality, dissipation, liberality, luxury; unfavourable news.