Understanding the Tarot Deck: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination

by Arthur Edward Waite

Authors: Arthur Waite Publisher: Citadel Keywords: secret, tradition, fragments, deck, tarot, understanding Pages: 368 Published: 2000-06-01 Language: English Category: Tarot, Divination, New Age,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806521139
• ISBN13: 9780806521138
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Basic Meaning of Waite's Tarot Cards

This tarot book is a basic edition of the meaning behind the cards.Arthur Edward Waite and Pamela Colman Smith created the current standard tarot deck, mostly used today.Yet,this book is fairly brief.And there are many other more imaginative tarot books around thesedays.My only qualm with this book is that it is too abrupt and not expansive enough, in it's characterizing of the individual cards.I would read this divination book again,because it's still a tarot pictorial classic.

An excellent edition of Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot

This is Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot, which is the same text as published by U.S. Games and Samuel Weiser, but with a couple of bonuses.The first bonus are two sections written by Gertrude Moakley - an introduction which gives nice background material on the deck and a section describing the rules of the tarot game, which I couldnt find elsewhere.The second bonus is that cards' pictures are not black and white outlines, as in U.S. Games' and Samuel Weiser's editions, but rather have shades of gray. This way the reader has a better impression of how the card looks without resorting to taking the relevant card out of the deck.With the availability of the text of Waite's book [excluding Moakley's text, of course] and cards on the web...