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SINCE WE HAVE SOME NEW TAROT DECK TRICKS
THIS WEEK, HERE IS A FASCINATING ARTICLE!
was nearly lost in history.
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"Hold a question in your mind, shuffle, select your cards and see into your future. For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.
The cards’ enigmatic symbols have become culturally ingrained in
music, art and film, but the woman who inked and painted the illustrations of the most widely used set of cards today – the Rider-Waite deck from 1909, originally published by Rider & Co. – fell into obscurity, totally overshadowed by the man who commissioned her, Arthur Edward Waite.
Now, over 70 years
after her death, the creator Pamela Colman Smith has been included in a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York highlighting many underappreciated artists of early 20th-century American modernism."- from the online article
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Pamela Colman Smith was a fascinating but mysterious figure –Â
a mystic who was part of the secret occultist society called
the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn.
The Rider–Waite tarot was notable for having all 78 cards fully illustrated.
Previously, only the 22
Major Arcana cards had illustrations
while the remaining 52 cards had only the pips and values of the four suits.
Smith’s varied mystical influences are evident in the subjects of the
detailed illustrations she created for each card in the deck.
The deck viewed as a whole is truly a work of art!Â
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