Illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith for the Rider-Waite tarot deck (1909, reprinted in 1937) (courtesy Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library) As Halloween approaches, it offers a chance to delve ...

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The first time I ever had my tarot cards read was almost 40 years ago, when I was 24. The tarot reader had the usual black lace skirt and silver jewellery, and said her name was Sian, but I could call ...

A portrait taken of Pamela Colman Smith (1878-1951) just after she had turned 33 depicts a gamine woman, with fiercely intelligent dark eyes that twinkle with intensity, her face bristling with impish ...

The Rider-Waite-Smith is the most popular deck of them all and the commonly used tarot deck worldwide. It was introduced in 1909 by mystic A.E. Waite and Pamela Colman Smith as the illustrator. This ...

Navigate emotional burnout and frustrating delays this week through planetary occultism with a five-card Rider-Waite-Smith ...

Whether you consider this the age of Aquarius or nah, it’s hard to deny how powerfully mainstream both cannabis and the esoteric have become. The normalization of plant medicine, moon rituals, and the ...