The History of the Tarot podcast
Where did Tarot come from—and how did a Renaissance card game become a powerful language of symbolism, divination, psychology, and spiritual reflection?
In this episode of John’s Tarot, we trace the history of Tarot from the hand-painted Visconti-Sforza decks of 15th-century Italy through Hermetic philosophy, Kabbalah, Éliphas Lévi, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. We then explore how Arthur Edward Waite and artist Pamela Colman Smith created the revolutionary deck now known as the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot.
Pamela Colman Smith’s fully illustrated Minor Arcana transformed Tarot…
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