Divinatory meanings, keywords, attributes and descriptions for the twenty-two cards of the Rider-Waite Major Arcana tarot deck
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmNcRHWF9A_/ With light step, as if earth and its trammels had little power to restrain him, a young man in gorgeous vestments pauses at the brink of a precipice among the great heights of the world; he surveys the blue distance...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmkcFeCABNU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link A youthful figure in the robe of a magician, having the countenance of divine Apollo, with smile of confidence and shining eyes. Above his head is the mysterious sign of the Holy Spirit,...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmisk9rgaSj/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link High Priestess She has the lunar crescent at her feet, a horned diadem on her head, with a globe in the middle place, and a large solar cross on her breast. The scroll in her hands is...
Rider-Waite A stately figure, seated, having rich vestments and royal aspect, as of a daughter of heaven and earth. Her diadem is of twelve stars, gathered in a cluster. The symbol of Venus is on the shield which rests near her. A field of corn is ripening in front of...
Rider-Waite He has a form of the Crux ansata for his sceptre and a globe in his left hand. He is a crowned monarch - commanding, stately, seated on a throne, the arms of which axe fronted by rams' heads. He is executive and realization, the power of this world, here...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmiq7FxALkt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link He wears the triple crown and is seated between two pillars, but they are not those of the Temple which is guarded by the High Priestess. In his left hand he holds a sceptre terminating...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmixIPLgUi9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The sun shines in the zenith, and beneath is a great winged figure with arms extended, pouring down influences. In the foreground are two human figures, male and female, unveiled before...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmioULFA6da/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link An erect and princely figure carrying a drawn sword and corresponding, broadly speaking, to the traditional description which I have given in the first part. On the shoulders of the...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmiyPATAayg/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Rider-Waite A woman, over whose head there broods the same symbol of life which we have seen in the card of the Magician, is closing the jaws of a lion. The only point in which this design differs...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmkbK2TAIte/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link The variation from the conventional models in this card is only that the lamp is not enveloped partially in the mantle of its bearer, who blends the idea of the Ancient of Days with the...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmcu2IugYUY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link In this symbol I have again followed the reconstruction of Éliphas Lévi, who has furnished several variants. It is legitimate - as I have intimated - to use Egyptian symbolism when this...
Rider-Waite https://www.instagram.com/p/BmivqyrAuVX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link As this card follows the traditional symbolism and carries above all its obvious meanings, there is little to say regarding it outside the few considerations collected in the first part,...