The Complete Rider-Waite Tarot

What does a card show, and what are you adding when you interpret it? Vivian Harrowfield invites you to start from the image and to take the step toward a reading with its reasons in plain view.

This atlas of the Rider-Waite tarot gathers 78 profiles with an image and five fields: The Scene, The Detail That Slips By, What It Suggests, Don’t Confuse It With, and Keywords. It includes eight enlarged plates with a gaze path and six pairs compared side by side for telling apart scenes that memory tends to blend.

The chapters on method, the exercises with answer criteria, and the fictional cases let you practice observation. Then you can follow the direction of the figures and work with complete layouts, noting what repeats and what is missing before you interpret.

Indexes of motifs and of cards, a visual glossary, and a bibliography complete the book. It reproduces the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of 1909, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith. A book of reflection and entertainment for looking at the cards again, with attention.