{"id":3251,"date":"2011-09-17T14:22:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T20:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2011-09-17T14:22:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T20:22:06","slug":"a-different-a-e-waite-tarot-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3251","title":{"rendered":"A Different A.E. Waite Tarot Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary K. Greer<a href=\"http:\/\/marygreer.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/17\/waites-second-tarot-deck%E2%80%94an-incredible-discovery\/\"> discusses a forgotten Tarot deck<\/a> designed by ceremonial magician A.E. Waite, whose collaboration with artist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pamela_Coleman_Smith\">Pamela Coleman Smith<\/a> produced the Tarot deck probably most commonly used in the past fifty years, at least in the Anglosphere. A new publication with commentary is planned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The commentary will be based on Waite\u2019s unpublished and extensive commentary on the images, which has led to a complete mapping of Waite\u2019s \u201csecret\u201d correspondences to the Tree of Life. Marcus [Katz] says that this set of correspondences is so blindingly obvious and \u201cmakes sense,\u201d such that he believes we will be astounded. It will be interesting to see if the mapping corresponds with the revised Tree of Life described in Decker and Dummett\u2019s book. Also, this clears up a long-running controversy about whether the Rider-Waite-Smith deck was designed with Golden Dawn Tree of Life Associations in mind. My feeling is that it was, as Waite clearly uses these associations in some of his Order papers, but it\u2019s also clear that he wasn\u2019t really satisfied with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary K. Greer discusses a forgotten Tarot deck designed by ceremonial magician A.E. Waite, whose collaboration with artist Pamela Coleman Smith produced the Tarot deck probably most commonly used in the past fifty years, at least in the Anglosphere. A new publication with commentary is planned. The commentary will be based on Waite\u2019s unpublished and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,159],"class_list":["post-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-magick","tag-tarot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Qr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8581,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8581","url_meta":{"origin":3251,"position":0},"title":"A Haitian Take on the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck","author":"Chas S. 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