#Weiser Tarot

[alexesguerra]

The Weiser Tarot: A New Edition of the Classic 1909 Waite-Smith Deck (78-Card Deck with 64-Page Guidebook) The Weiser Tarot: A New Edition of the Classic 1909 Waite-Smith Deck (78-Card Deck with 64-Page Guidebook) Cards – September 14, 2022 by Arthur Edward Waite (Author), Pamela Colman Smith (Author), The Editors of Weiser Books (Editor) ---Brand New--- A fresh and vibrant reimagining of the classic 1909 Waite-Smith tarot. "Beautifully done and poised to become the go-to tarot deck for the century to come, The Weiser Tarot is a vibrant and luminous refresh for the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith that accentuates the elemental correspondences and updates this popular deck for modern readers." —Benebell Wen, author of Holistic Tarot The Weiser Tarot is a new edition of the most popular and influential Tarot art ever created, the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, first published in 1909. The cards have been newly repainted—while, of course, preserving Pamela Colman Smith’s original line art—creating a fresh, flowing aesthetic. Additionally, the cards provide Hebrew and astrological correspondences to the Major Arcana—not included in the original Rider-Waite-Smith deck—for those seekers who have interest in Qabalah and astrology. The accompanying book includes: A brief history of the Tarot A look at how the Rider-Waite-Smith deck came to be The story behind the creation of The Weiser Tarot Keywords for interpreting the cards Tarot spreads, including a new “Ankh” spread created especially for The Weiser Tarot An annotated list of recommended reading for further study The Weiser Tarot was created to speak to your own personal Tarot needs and desires. Whether you are new to the Tarot or a seasoned card reader, you can use The Weiser Tarot for divination, fortune-telling, self-transformation, spellcasting, or any other purpose. About the Author Arthur Edward Waite (1857–1942), commonly known as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Pamela Colman Smith (1878–1951), also nicknamed Pixie, was a British artist, illustrator, writer, publisher, and occultist. She is best known for illustrating the Rider-Waite tarot deck in collaboration with Arthur Edward Waite. This tarot deck became the standard among tarot card readers and remains the most widely used today. Colman also illustrated over twenty books, wrote two collections of Jamaican folklore, edited two magazines, and ran the Green Sheaf Press, a small press focused on women writers. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Weiser Books; New edition (September 14, 2022) Language ‏ : ‎ English Cards ‏ : ‎ 64 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1578637953 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781578637959 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.4 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 3.25 x 1.85 x 5.25 inches

[infjtarot]

Fool. Weiser Tarot. (Waite. Smith)

The Fool is the harbinger of new beginnings. When this card appears, the forthcoming life path is one of unbound potential and beginnings that come with a deeper spiritual meaning. The white sun represents power and a strong, vibrant aura emanating from the Seeker, but the Seeker’s power has not yet created worldly substances of value. It is about power, but no product.

Compare Key 1, The Magician, a figure who can harness power constructively (or destructively, when in reverse). When The Fool appears in a reading, it is about a point in the Seeker’s life when the next step could either send the Seeker flying into the air over that cliff with impressive accomplishment or falling down hard from naïveté. The temperament of The Fool is one pure in spirit, openhearted, and like a child, innocent and naive. There is a Peter Pan mentality—boastful, careless, a bit arrogant, and possessing a willful refusal to take responsibility or be mature. Yet the Seeker is a beautiful, creative soul—perhaps someone with a foolish belief in the attainment of impossibly beautiful goals. There is a trace of swagger and flamboyance in The Fool. He is a swashbuckler. The fanciful style of the Fool’s clothing suggests one who is attached to superficiality, a Seeker with great pride in his or her attractiveness. The Fool card can also mean that a choice is being offered, one of great significance. The choice before the Seeker may seem minor, but it is a choice that could affect a lifetime, so tread with caution (otherwise the Seeker might fall off the edge of the cliff). Compare: There are cards in the Minor Arcana that also indicate presentations of choice before the Seeker, such as the Seven of Cups or Two of Swords. The Minor Arcana choice cards indicate matters of immediate concern, from day-to-day life. When The Fool is drawn and represents a choice being offered, that choice will have a profound impact on the entirety of Seeker’s life or the progression of his or her spirituality.

Compare Key 6: The Lovers, which can also suggest a choice being offered, though, in The Lovers card, the choice often has ethical undertones. With The Fool, the choice is not over ethics or morality; it is a choice between two forks in the path. One fork will lead to attainment (flying, transcending the cliff) and the other will lead to likely demise (falling off the cliff). The Fool or Trickster is a universal archetype found across many cultures, such as Robin Hood, a skilled archer with a heart of gold, but who is vain, naive, and indiscreet; or Puck, the spirited woodland creature of English folklore; Kitsune, the clever fox of Japanese and Chinese myth, a mistress in the art of deception, yet she loves deeply and demonstrates unwavering loyalty; or the Chinese legend of Sun Wukong, the tender-footed Monkey King with supernatural abilities who defies the laws of heaven and hell. When The Fool card appears in a reading, the Seeker is embodying the characteristics of Peter Pan, Robin Hood, Puck, Kitsune, or Sun Wukong. The Seeker displays a naive disregard for rules, but because of his or her extraordinary innate abilities, can get away with such defiance. Traditionally The Fool card is unnumbered. Some systems, such as the Rider-Waite-Smith, assign “0” to it. Other systems assign “22” to the card and place it behind Key 21: The World, or, without numbering it, simply order it at the end of the Major Arcana. The Marseille-based Trumps shown in Appendix I provide an example of an unnumbered Fool placed at the end. The element of Air governs The Fool, so the attributions associated with Air will represent the external forces at play in the Seeker’s situation. In The Fool, yang energy is dominant. The number eight may be relevant. Benebel Wen

[babylon-crashing]

Q: what is the future of tarot cards?

For me Tarot is like the sonnet: a perfect form that needs no adjusting. In fact, I would go so far as to say that those attempts to make either form “better” simply turns them, in the end, into something else. Add an extra line and you no longer have a sonnet. Tweak the Tarot too much and you have an Oracle deck.

Granted, I realize that I am deeply biased when it comes to giving my opinion about the future of Tarot, since I can’t see myself not wanting to come up with new designs, but for an art form that’s been around since the 1450s (or so) Tarot isn’t going anywhere. One of the exciting things about being alive right now is that there are more new decks in circulation than ever before. If you’re curious about what is being produced right now I suggest visiting the good folks at Red Wheel / Weiser. They have an interesting collection.

Speaking of new things here is a random Suit of Wands that I’ve been mulling over.

At first I thought I was going to make a Cthulhu deck because who doesn’t love that lil’ ragamuffin? Except, as it turns out, there already are several Lovecraftian Cthulhu decks, and since I kinda loathe the man, I thought, “why not simply use the octopus head and come up with something new?” (As it turns out slap a cephalopod on any random body and many folks will say, “Ah, Cthulhu!” followed by, “Why does it have breasts?”)

I thought about calling the deck the Eldritch Abomination Tarot, but unfortunately, I don’t have a name for the central character yet. The Lovecraftian Name Generator came up with: Vh'iotla, Yiv'ixa, Ictaaxhi and Mhalthu … but I hesitate using names that I can’t actually pronounce. Right now I’ve been calling her Madam Thingy, but hopefully something better will come along.

[jasper-pagan-witch]

An Itemized List of My Beginner Books

I did not have any of these when starting out. I am so freaking lucky to be able to get these and read them with the benefit of hindsight. I've actually covered most of these in reviews and posts about books I recommend to beginner magic practitioners.

Grovedaughter Witchery: Practical Spellcraft. Author: Bree NicGarran. Publisher: Amazon. Additional notes: Review here. If y'all were here for that, you'll know that this book instantly turned me into a Bree stan. This is truly a secular book on magic and I am forever thankful that there are safety warnings out the wazoo present in these pages.

It's Witchcraft: a beginner's guide to secular & non-secular witchcraft: Second Edition. Author: Jamie Weaver. Publisher: Amazon. Additional notes: Review here. I got this book because I was trying to find more secular beginner resources to recommend. This book failed to impress me or to even be secular, as there's a lot of Wiccan influence (as usual) in it.

Kitchen Table Magic: Pull Up a Chair, Light a Candle, & Let's Talk Magic. Author: Melissa Cynova. Publisher: Llewellyn. Additional notes: I found this author first through her tarot book and enjoyed her tone and how she broke things down, so I got her more broad-scale book. The sections are small and meant to prompt you to get interested in a subject so you can go research them more on your own time. It's a small book that tries to pack a lot of information in.

of witchcraft and whimsy: a beginner's guide to witchcraft. Author: Rose Orriculum. Publisher: Amazon. Additional notes: Review here. This is basically a non-threatening secular book on magic that you would give a pre-teen or early teen who's scared of everything. We also love a book of spells that includes baneful magic in case someone needs to be popped in the face.

Queering Your Craft: witchcraft from the margins. Author: Cassandra Snow. Publisher: Weiser Books. Additional notes: By far the most Wiccan of my books (even though it claims to be "Pagan" with a capital P, which just means Wiccan as we all know), it's also the chunkiest of the beginner books. Frankly, I'd recommend leaving this one for last, or waiting to have your own personal base built up. There are some...UNFORTUNATE parts in here, like when the author says that "shadow work" (a Jungian psychology concept) is necessary, but it's worth more than its issues in my humble opinion.

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"...But a Sephirah cannot be understood upon a single plane; it has a fourfold nature. The Qabalah expresses this by saying that there are four worlds (*):

Atziluth, the Architypal World, or World of Emanantions; the Divine World.

Briah, the World of Creation, also called Kursiya, the World of Thrones.

Yetzirah, the World of Formation and of Angels.

Assiah, the World of Action; the World of Matter."

['The Mystical Qabalah', by Dion Fortune] (See also 'Qabalah Unveiled', by Samuel MacGregor Mathers) (photo of Tree of Life from 'The Qabalistic Tarot', by Robert Wang (Weiser))

(*) a.k.a., four dimensions

[greenthey]

New ancestor work deck just dropped with 82 CARDS 👀👀

by Carrie Paris, the maker of The Relative Tarot (Weiser Books)

[maeviuslynn]

I am absolutely so excited for this upcoming release from Weiser Books. This is a great companion book for anyone interested in using the Thoth deck. There is so much practical advice in this one. This new edition features new material and a forward by Diane Champigny (Priestess Thea).

Thank you so much to  for sending me this book. It's a real delight. Link to buy: https://redwheelweiser.com/book/tarot-mirror-of-the-soul-9781578637904/

[primordialsoundmeditation]

Your fate is never set in stone. In every moment, you have the power to change your future. You can step left instead of right. Zig instead of zag. Ask for help instead of staying silent. Or, choose to view one of your flaws as a gift. https://www.thetarotlady.com/twist-your-fate/ #tarot #astrology Red Wheel / Weiser Books

The Tarot Lady

[thefatfeministwitch]

Te Cards You're Dealt and the Weiser Tarot Journal by Theresa Reed | Book Review of Shadows

We are not always dealt the gentlest cards in life. Sometimes we’re dealt a very difficult hand. At some point all of us will be confronted by life’s inevitable tough passages: the loss of loved ones, a health crisis or illness, the endless thrum of national and global tragedies—as well as the empty nest, the loss of a job, the loss of a relationship, the loss of youth. When we’re going through…

[jamiesonwolf]

When there are those around you that need hope, all you can do is shine. For me, choosing positivity is a choice, it's a direction on my path that I can lean into or away from. It's my choice where the Chariot will go and which direction I will choose. Today, I am choosing to shine brightly so that those who need a beacon in the shadows will be able to find the shore. 🌟 Card from The Weiser Tarot #tarot #tarotreadersofinstagram #tarottribe #weisertarot #direction #choices #positivity #shine #brightly #beacon #hope #shore #sparkleon #shinebright #likeadiamond #cardoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CpxDkg9Od11/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rujit]

Ancestral Tarot - Book Review

Ancestral Tarot Book Review by Nancy Hendrickson

Author: Nancy HendricksonPublisher: Red Wheel/Weiser (25 April 2021)Book Pages: 224Audible Lenght:Platform: Kindle, Audible and Paperback About the Author: Nancy Hendrickson is author with decades of experience in genealogy and tarot. Her published work includes several genealogy books and magazine articles. Nancy has been interviewed on the topic of internet genealogy by the New York Times,…

[alexesguerra]

The Oracle of Awakening: (44 Full-Color Cards and 112-Page Guidebook) The Oracle of Awakening: (44 Full-Color Cards and 112-Page Guidebook) Contributor(s): Simone, Lalania (Author) ISBN: 9781578638628 Binding: Other Pub Date: October 07, 2024 Author: Lalania Simone Physical Info: 1.2" H x 5.5" L x 3.9" W (0.7 lbs) 112 pages Publisher: Weiser Books The Oracle of Awakening is a forty-four-card oracle deck and guidebook designed to help you open your heart and mind by directing you to aspects of your being that need your attention, love, and reflection. The Oracle of Awakening is infused with high-frequency energy and intention to help trigger a remembrance of your expanded self and your infinite potential. Each card is a portal, layered with vibrant colors, textures, people, plants and animals, symbols, and keywords. The accompanying guidebook is filled with inspiration for working with the energy of each card. Use these cards in your own way--as a daily draw, as inspiration for meditation, or in your personal rituals and ceremonies. You can also combine oracle cards with your tarot readings to expand and clarify your offerings and understanding. Additional spread ideas are included in the guidebook. We are in the time of the Great Awakening and are beginning to see through the illusions of our conditioning and realize that we are not separate from each other or the Divine. This deluxe package contains forty-four gilt-edged, full-color cards and a 112-page guidebook. The deck has a diverse representation of people, animals, plant life, and spiritual symbolism. Each card also features a selection of keywords to inspire your interpretation. "In The Oracle of Awakening there are no limits or boundaries, only infinite possibilities. Lalania Simone's work of exploration of human culture continues with the creation of this powerful oracle, which represents as never before an occasion to meditate and reflect but also to question and be provoked. She overturns the status quo with a work that explores the potential of the 'divine manifestation of life, ' with courage and sincerity." --Arcana Barcelona Biographical Note: Lalania Simone is a mystic artist "born in the cosmos and raised by the streets," as she says. Her mother is Mexican and her father Puerto Rican, but she descends from fifteen different regions of the world: this rainbow of different histories and heritages motivates Lalania to investigate the common root in the heterogeneity of the human being.

[infjtarot]

THE WEISER TAROT DECK | A REVIEW

The newly released Weiser Tarot deck has finally been released! I am excited to share the beauty of this deck with you. For anyone who knows me or listens to my podcast, Pagan’s Witchy Corner, you know I have a massive love of Tarot and Oracle decks. My collection currently sits somewhere in the range of 30+ decks. No judgment, please. So, I was thrilled to have the Weiser Tarot deck join my collection of cherished decks.

What a beautiful Tarot deck!

Surprisingly out of all my Tarot decks only two of them are in the style of the classic Rider Waite Smith deck. Being an artist, I often find myself drawn more to the more artistic and different styles of Tarot decks, but I am happily in love with the Weiser Tarot deck.

Furthermore, I love the art style of the deck, it is absolutely enchanting. The bold lines of the drawings of the traditional images with the soft whimsical beauty of the watercolor backgrounds, bring life to this deck.

While there are many things I love about this deck, here are a few of my favorite things. Firstly, many tarot decks often have flimsy cards. Those do not hold up to time and shuffling and will often have to be replaced quickly. In contrast, the Weiser Tarot is sturdy with a thicker cardstock for each card allowing it to easily stand on your altar. If you want to share your readings on social media or with clients, the matte finish on the deck is perfect for photographing your spreads.

The New Hebrew and Astrological Additions Are Exquisite

Secondly, I also love the new Ankh spread included in the guidebook. It is a great spread for connecting to your Egyptian deities or looking for the keys to life to achieve the best life possible. The Hebrew and astrological influences on the bottom of the Major Arcana cards. It is a particularly excellent addition for those who have curiosity about Qabalah and astrology.

In conclusion, this is a great starter deck for someone new to studying Tarot and is also a great addition for a seasoned practitioner, and I above all highly recommend it to all Tarot lovers.

[jasper-pagan-witch]

An Itemized List of My Tarot Books

When it comes to divination, tarot is my bread and butter, my sweet cheese, my good-time pal, my partner in crime, and so on.

Complete Book of Tarot Spreads: Includes 122 Layouts. Authors: Evelin Burger and Johannes Fiebig. Publisher: Sterling Ethos. Additional notes: I don't like how often the G-slur is used to refer to the Romani. Tarot is Italian, Catholic, and a product of the Golden Dawn. You don't have to use slurs for Romani people to sell your tarot book in the year...okay, 1997 from its original German in 1995, but the point still stands. I just scribble out the slurs and use some of the spreads. I don't need them to teach me how to read tarot, and frankly, I don't recommend getting this book for that purpose.

Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull Up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let's Talk Tarot. Author: Melissa Cynova. Publisher: Llewellyn. Additional notes: This was my introduction to Melissa Cynova's works. I was impressed with this book, and it's one of the first ones that I recommend to people who need help figuring out tarot. Not only does it go into all 78 cards, it also talks about their reversals!

Psychic Tarot: Using Your Natural Psychic Abilities to Read the Cards. Authors: Nancy Antenucci and Melanie Howard. Publisher: Llewellyn. Additional notes: I don't actually believe that you have to be psychic in order to use tarot. I refuse to believe I'm psychic, I'm just putting together the symbolism and meanings of the cards and applying them to people's situations. But if you're into all that psychic shit, this is a pretty okay book? It sure as hell isn't perfect, but it's here.

Queering the Tarot. Author: Cassandra Snow. Publisher: Weiser Books. Additional notes: I never actually wrote the review of this book, but it's...both inclusive and alienating. My main complaints is that the only card that is even vaguely a-spec is the Hermit and the Wheel card entry treats "nonbinary" as synonymous to transfeminine (and frankly the author should have just used transfeminine for that entry). It also misuses the term "karma", uses the erroneous term "Judeo-Christian", and isn't an easy read if you can't handle walls of text or have dyslexia, but it's very personal, sex-positive, kink-inclusive, and reassuring. It includes pushes for activism (but recognizes that there are people who can't do that stuff). Overall, it's clear that it was the author's first book.

Tarot for Troubled Times: confront your shadow, heal your self, transform the world. Authors: Shaheen Miro and Theresa Reed. Publisher: Weiser Books. Additional notes: Review here. This was first published in 2019. Let that sink in for a hot minute. Anyway, I found this book to be...clearly written for women in the text but not the cover or marketing.

The Book of Divination: A Guide to Predicting the Future. Author: Michael Johnstone. Publisher: Arcturus Holdings Limited. Additional notes: This is a BEEFY book. Even with chapters dedicated to tarot, playing cards, tea leaf reading, crystal divination, Chinese astrology, Western astrology, I-Ching, numerology, palmistry, Futhark runes, and prophetic dreaming, there's also a MASSIVE list of divination methods in the foreword. Unfortunately, my old enemy (the racist pseudoscience phrenology) gets a mention here, but there are also some hilarious divination methods such as "slap someone in the face with a single rose petal", scrying with wine, and "drop pearls onto a surface and see how they bounce and roll". And unlike many rune books, this one actually appreciates history and talks about how the "blank rune" was invented in 1980s - because let's not forget that runes were a writing system, and having a "blank rune" makes no sense when writing things down.

[upthewitchypunx]

PBW Witch Shop!

It’s a strange time for us at Portland Button Works. Our primary business is making custom pinback buttons, but with conventions canceled and gathering discouraged our primary is business is at a complete stand still. On top of the Covid-17 pandemic and a “stay home” order in Portland, we were forced to move out of the warehouse we had called home for 4 years. It’s a shame because we just updated our website and our next focus going to be making our shop as more of a community space. We had such great plans! I guess is sort of good we lost our space because in a few months, paying rent was going to get difficult in this climate.

Selling our catalog of items like our pre-made button designs, books, zines, tarot decks and other stuff has always been more of my hobby to be able to sell things I like and it was only about 20% of our business. While it was only 20% of our business, it was a large portion of physical things in our shop, so we had a lot of things to move. In the last week we moved 400 square feet of things from our shop into a 120 square foot spare room in our home, the spare room where I stated making custom button and selling zines over a decade ago. I guess we are now working from home like a lot of people.

I know not everyone has spending money right now, but if you do and you have thought about buying some of the books or zines or buttons shown above or anything in our catalog, right now would be a really great time to check out our PBW Witch Shop or even the rest of our catalog of zines, buttons, or other things.

Also, we have access to buying books through book trade distribution. If there is a book, witchy or otherwise, that you would like to purchase from a small business and not from Amazon, get in touch. This may take a week to get and it will cost cover price, but we can order any book by a major publisher.

If you are in Portland, Oregon we can arrange for a contact-less pick up.

If you don’t have any money to spend, hey, neither do we! You can still help us out. You can reblog this post or tell your friends who are looking to get some witchy goods that they should take a look at our shop. Also, if you have ever bought anything from us or even if you have read any of the zines or books we carry or even if you were gifted one of our buttons you can leave reviews of those items on our website and it helps us out.

We would appreciate any help you can throw our way, together we can get through this!

Here’s a link to the PBW Witch Shop!

[2tonestarot]

Ronald (UnWiser) Weiser

In this Episode of 2 Tone’s Twisted Tarot Tales, Alienated Michigan GOP Chairman Ronald (UnWiser) Weiser has No Defense about his inappropriate communication with someone related to his Sacrificing of his Pentacles of which he is No Longer Drowning in.