In a softly lit room in Centennial, Lilly Cadillac Unger shuffles her tarot cards with practiced hands. The space, filled ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...