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 Devil
King of Wands
Eight of Cups
Queen of Swords
King of Cups
Majors
The Hierophant
Today we have The Hierophant. Waite gives us these meanings in relation to this card: Marriage alliance, captivity, servitude; by another account, mercy and goodness; […]
Minors
Five of Cups
Today’s card is the Five of Cups. As usual, we’ll start with Waite’s view on the card: It is a card of loss, but something […]
Courts
Knight of Cups
Arrival, approach–sometimes that of a messenger; advances, proposition, demeanour, invitation, incitement. Reversed – trickery, artifice, subtlety, swindling, duplicity, fraud.