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.
The Devil
King of Wands
Eight of Cups
Queen of Swords
King of CupsMajors
The Chariot
Succour, providence also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble. Reversed – riot, quarrel, dispute, litigation, defeat.
Minors
Two of Wands
Waite’s description of the Two of Wands is thus: Between the alternative readings there is no marriage possible: on the one hand, riches, fortune, magnificence; […]
Courts
King of Pentacles
Valour, realizing intelligence, business and normal intellectual aptitude, sometimes mathematical gifts and attainments of this kind; success in these paths. Reversed – vice, weakness, ugliness, […]