Rider waite tarot
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It requires a lot more studying to understand these symbolisms.
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Meanwhile, the Thoth deck, named after the Egyptian god of wisdom, writing, moon and interpreting, is rich in alchemy, the occult and Kabbalah or Jewish symbolism.
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The narrative of the Rider Waite-Smith meanings is more linear, following a narrative from one card to the next, known as The Fool’s Journey. Its illustrations suggest ways in which these meanings can express themselves. It further simplifies the interpretation process by breaking it down into numerology and the four elements. It contains a lot of Christian iconography which was easy for Western population to understand intuitively back in the day. The Rider Waite-Smith was designed with the mindset of making divination more accessible and easier to learn using intuition. On the surface level, both decks have 78 cards, with four suits and a Major Arcana. Differences in Rider Waite Smith tarot deck The Thoth tarot deck comes from a different pair of author and illustrator from the same society. The classical Rider Waite-Smith which most decks redesign these days and whose system they all primarily follow, comes from an author and illustrator from the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. It was a secret society studying and practising the occult around the nineteenth and twentieth century. That being said, why does the Thoth Tarot Deck seem to be treated as separate from most tarot? Same origins, different takes At the same time, because visuals and symbolisms can be different, it empowers different dimensions of interpretation and, potentially, meanings. Yes, so long as the basic ‘rules’ and structure is the same, the visual possibilities are infinite. June last year we had a blog post explaining: Are all tarot cards the same? The answer then was yes and no.