The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack - Arthur Edward Waite, Pamela Coleman Smith

Old grandma-zeeman was the 7th daughter of a 7th daughter … which meant that she was destined to be quite a spooky individual from the cot onwards. She put her psychic powers to good use by becoming an amateur fortune-teller ... peering into other folks' destiny via tea-leaves left stranded at the bottom of a bone china cup, following a brew. Despite intensive tuition, young mr-zeeman never quite got the hang of this method of predicting the future ... it's an abstract approach, and quite tricky, even when employing the *correct* esoteric drinking vessel. So instead I plumped for reading ... more

I owned The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack for about three years before I even took it out of the shrink rap. At the time, I had quite a few divination tools at my disposal and I couldn’t figure out why I had bought the deck in the first place. Everything changed when I bought a copy of Seventy-eight Degrees of Wisdom and the deck finally began to make sense. What’s in ‘the pack’? The The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack is actually a small box containing the deck and the world’s tiniest book on Tarot. The enclosed book is The Key to the Tarot by Waite first published in 1910 with the forward ... more

I have done reading all my life and i do reading s for friends and family and i do like these cards i have other cards to .The cards themselves are laminated and therefore really glossy, thick and feel delightful to the touch. It also makes them quite slippery to shuffle sometimes. The cards are a nice size and fit in the hand comfortably. A lot of people have criticised this edition of the Rider Waite collection citing mute brownes and sepia's and lacklustre nature of the pictures - for a time even I thought they were plain ugly, however, on a closer inspection, I really started to appreciate ... more