the Rider-Waite tarot deck for the Rider and Company publishing house. Waite, like Smith and Yeats, was a member of the legendary Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which included prominent Christians ...

In the months that followed, I purchased my first Rider-Waite tarot deck from a bookshop in ... Initially a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn — a collective dedicated to the ...

It was the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, however ... and commissioned by Arthur Edward Waite for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (a secret society specialising in occultist study), its rich ...

However, Smith’s most lasting artistic contribution was undoubtedly her designs for the Rider ... Golden Dawn was similar—a secret society that looked at ancient texts, the kabbalah, and tarot ...

Smith could well have been describing how to use a deck of tarot cards. After all ... society known as the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”. Their mutual belief in spiritualism, rituals ...

Rider-Waite-Smith is the most common and good for beginners. Tarot de Marseilles is the oldest, out of Italy, and lastly, Thoth and Golden Dawn centers around the occult. Ignore the myth that have ...