The so-called Rider Tarot (due to its initial publisher, William Rider & Sons) continues to be the most popular Tarot deck sold worldwide. In the Tarot community this deck is usually called "RWS", standing for Rider-Waite-Smith; Waite for Arthur Edward Waite, mastermind behind the deck, and Smith for Pamela Colman Smith, artist and painter of the ( Read more... )

Once again the Tarot World has much to thank for mr. Koretaka Eguchi (a.k.a. Roppo for those of you who spend time at the Aeclectic forum). On his Occult Art Gallery site there is plenty of information on subjects such as W. T. Horton and Pamela Colman Smith (PCS). Another great PCS -site is the one by Holly Voley, and can be found here. What I ( Read more... )

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