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RIDER WAITE
®
TAROT DECK
Based upon the original and only
authorized edition of the famous
78-card Rider-Waite
®
Tarot Deck
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Original drawings by Pamela Colman Smith
®
under the direction of Arthur Edward Waite
U.S. GAMES SYSTEMS, INC.
Stamford, CT 06902 USA
www.usgamesinc.com
Instructions excerpted from
THE KEY TO THE TAROT
by Arthur Edward Waite
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Illustrations from
the Rider Tarot Deck
®
,
also known as the Rider-Waite Tarot
and the Waite Tarot, are copyright ©1971, 1991
U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
Further reproduction prohibited.
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The Rider Tarot Deck
®
, also known as the
Rider-Waite Tarot Deck
®
, Waite Tarot Deck
®
,
and Pamela Colman Smith Tarot Deck
®
are registered trademarks of
U.S. Games Systems, Inc.
Stamford, CT 06902 USA
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INTRODUCTION
by Stuart R. Kaplan
r. Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) was a
genuine scholar of occultism whose published
works include
The Holy Kabbalah
and
The Key to
the Tarot
first issued in England in 1910. Waite uti-
lized symbolism as the key to the Tarot pack. In
The
Key to the Tarot
he writes: “The true tarot is sym-
bolism; it speaks no other language and offers no
other signs.” What are the Tarot cards about which
Waite so skillfully writes? What is the message of
each card and when and where did these fascinat-
ing cardboard symbols first originate?
The precise origin of Tarot cards in antiquity
remains obscure. Court de Gebelin writing in
Le
Monde Primitif
in 1781 advances the theory that
Tarot cards derived from an ancient Egyptian book,
The Book of Thoth.
Thoth was the Egyptian
Mercury, said to be one of the early Kings and the
inventor of the hieroglyphic system. Gebelin asserts
that it is from the Egyptians and Gypsies that Tarot
cards were dispersed throughout Europe.
The emergence of Tarot cards in Europe predates
by over five centuries the work of Waite. A German
monk, Johannes, describes a game called
Ludas
Cartarum
played in the year 1377. Covelluzzo, a fif-
teenth-century chronicler, relates the introduction
into Viterbo of the game of cards in the year 1379.
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In the year 1369 playing cards are
not
mentioned in
a decree issued by Charles VI of France against var-
ious forms of gambling; however, 28 years later, the
Prevot of Paris, in an ordinance dated January 22,
1397, forbids working people from playing tennis,
ball,
cards,
or ninepins excepting only on holidays.
It is generally accepted that playing cards emerged
in Europe in the latter half of the fourteenth century,
probably first in Italy as a complete 78-card deck—
or some inventive genius subsequently combined
the common 56 cards known as the Minor Arcana
with the 22 esoteric and emblematic Tarot cards
known as the Major Arcana to form the 78-card
pack.
During the fifteenth century Tarot cards were
generally drawn or hand painted for the princely
houses of Northern Italy and France. Subsequently,
the card packs became more numerous because
they were reproduced by techniques using wood-
cuts, stencils and copper engraving. By the six-
teenth century a modified Tarot pack called the
Tarot of Marseilles gained popularity.
There exists today, in the archives of the
Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, 17 Major Arcana
cards generally believed, probably erroneously, to
have been hand painted about the year 1392 by
Jacquemin Gringonneur for Charles VI of France.
These cards are likely of later Venetian origin, possibly
mid-fifteenth-century Tarocchi of Venice cards.
The Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City
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possesses 35 cards from a 78-card Tarot deck dating
from circa 1484 and believed to be the work of
either Bonifacio Bembo or Antonio Cicognara.
This deck apparently belonged to Cardinal Ascanio
Maria Sforza (1445-l505) or to his mother Bianca
Visconti Sforza and was probably not intended for
actual play but, instead, may have been merely a
pictorial representation of the times.
Other early European cards related to the Tarot
pack include:
• Tarocchi of Mantegna deck comprising of 50
instructive cards in five series of ten cards each;
• Tarocchi of Venice or Lombardi deck comprising
of 78 cards including 22 Major Arcana and 56 Lesser
Arcana cards;
• Tarocchino of Bologna deck comprising of 62
cards, believed to have been invented by Francois
Fibbia, Prince of Pisa, and containing 22 Major
Arcana and only 40 numeral suit cards;
• Minchiate of Florence deck similar to the regu-
lar 78-card Tarot deck but enlarged to 97 cards by
the addition of the signs of the zodiac, the four ele-
ments and three cardinal virtues.
Tarot fortune-telling readings generally take
into account not only the individual divinatory
meaning of a card but also the proximity between
two or more cards and whether the card is upside
down (which weakens, delays and even reverses the
meaning). The brief descriptive title on each of the
22 Major Arcana cards serves as a catalyst toward a
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