Do you know where Waite got his card meanings for the Minor Arcana from for his deck? Before his deck, almost all decks over the past few hundred years didn't have detailed images for the Minor Arcana. The Sola Busca deck did, and Waite may have been influenced by those Minor Arcana, but it isn't like the card meanings would have been so easy to decipher. In his creation of his deck and in his Pictorial Key to Tarot, do you know how he came up with those card meanings for the Minor Arcana?
I find reading Waite a bit difficult to totally get exactly what he is trying to say sometimes, perhaps I am just not smart enough, maybe there is some British humor I am not fully getting like when he rags on other occultists in that book. HAHA What is that? But from what I gather from his Pictorial Key to the Tarot book, unlike others during his time, he didn't see the Tarot deck as coming from any ancient occult school such as from Egypt, nor did he think it had any true relation to the Qaballah. This surprised me as I would have thought him of all people, were fully into this idea of Tarot being a version of the Qaballah, some ancient wisdom from Atlantis or Gypsies or something. but if he just saw it as the true origin being just a card game, I suppose the Qaballistic framework of the cards, which many occultists of this type of occult system tend to follow, ironically the Rider-Waite deck would not have been designed like this, right? That's funny.
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Date: 2023-08-28 04:42 am (UTC)Do you know where Waite got his card meanings for the Minor Arcana from for his deck? Before his deck, almost all decks over the past few hundred years didn't have detailed images for the Minor Arcana. The Sola Busca deck did, and Waite may have been influenced by those Minor Arcana, but it isn't like the card meanings would have been so easy to decipher. In his creation of his deck and in his Pictorial Key to Tarot, do you know how he came up with those card meanings for the Minor Arcana?
I find reading Waite a bit difficult to totally get exactly what he is trying to say sometimes, perhaps I am just not smart enough, maybe there is some British humor I am not fully getting like when he rags on other occultists in that book. HAHA What is that? But from what I gather from his Pictorial Key to the Tarot book, unlike others during his time, he didn't see the Tarot deck as coming from any ancient occult school such as from Egypt, nor did he think it had any true relation to the Qaballah. This surprised me as I would have thought him of all people, were fully into this idea of Tarot being a version of the Qaballah, some ancient wisdom from Atlantis or Gypsies or something. but if he just saw it as the true origin being just a card game, I suppose the Qaballistic framework of the cards, which many occultists of this type of occult system tend to follow, ironically the Rider-Waite deck would not have been designed like this, right? That's funny.
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