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Miniature Rider-Waite Tarot

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Original Price $15.95
Current Price $15.15
This classic deck has long been a favorite of beginners as well as tarot enthusiasts. Includes 78 cards sized 1.75" x 2.875"
Specs
  •  US Games 
  • Size Cards measure 1.75" x 2.875"
  • Language EN, ES
  • Artist Pamela Colman Smith
Artist

Pamela Coleman Smith was an artist, illustrator, and writer. Born in Pimlico, Middlesex (now London), Smith was the daughter of American merchant Charles Edward Smith and Corinne Colman. Smith’s life was often very transitory. Her father’s job with the West India Improvement Company stationed the family throughout Europe and North America’s eastern coast, and after her mother’s death when Smith was ten she was taken in by family friends who performed in the Lyceum traveling theatre.

In 1893, Smith moved to Brooklyn to be with her father. There, at age 15, she enrolled at the relatively new Pratt Institute and studied art under Arthur Wesley Dow. After her graduation four years later she returned to England, where she became an illustrator and theatrical designer.

Smith wrote and illustrated several books, and designed the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of Tarot cards for Arthur Edward Waite in 1909—designs still used today.

In 1909, Waite paid Smith a flat fee for illustrating his Tarot deck. He chose Pamela for the job because of her talent, their common membership in the Golden Dawn, and because he believed her clairvoyant abilities would help her perceive the higher mystical truths he was attempting to convey with his deck. She not only didn’t benefit financially from the deck, but the publisher’s name was put on the deck instead of hers. Recently, the tarot community has been correcting this injustice by referring to the deck as the Rider Waite Smith (RWS) or Waite Smith deck (WS).

She never married. After the end of the First World War, Smith received an inheritance that enabled her to move to Cornwall, an area popular with artists. She died in Bude, Cornwall on the 18th of September, 1951.

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Suzanna Schiefer

Love the mini tarot cards.

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Yell Heah
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My first tarot deck (not counting normal-horoscopes.tumblr.com's "Normal Tarot," which is quite different)!
I'm not spiritual enough to believe in divination, but I've always loved the aesthetic of tarot's IDEA. It academically seduced me within minutes of our first meeting. So I've long wanted to have some cards to use for divining for fun, and to use to learn the meanings of each card reading, and the Rider-Waite Tarot is the most recognizably "classic" deck, imo.

This deck delights me in its tinyness. It's portable enough for my pocket, which means I can whip it out during DnD and before MtG games to divine my odd of winning. Tarot spreads being what they are, my readings are amusingly difficult to interpret through such a "success vs failure" lens, so that's been a lot of fun.
Also, my ADHD demands I carry no less than 3 separate fidget toys on my person at any given time. A tiny deck to shuffle fulfils that purpose nicely.

I think I might have to stop trying to stack the deck to spring Guerilla Tower Reading Attack!s on my friends, tho. I lost literally every game in my MtG draft tournament, the day I tried that on my friends to fortell them losing our match. The tarot spirits I don't believe in don't seem to like that much.

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Suzanna Schiefer

Love the mini tarot cards.

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Yell Heah
DELIGHTFUL

My first tarot deck (not counting normal-horoscopes.tumblr.com's "Normal Tarot," which is quite different)!
I'm not spiritual enough to believe in divination, but I've always loved the aesthetic of tarot's IDEA. It academically seduced me within minutes of our first meeting. So I've long wanted to have some cards to use for divining for fun, and to use to learn the meanings of each card reading, and the Rider-Waite Tarot is the most recognizably "classic" deck, imo.

This deck delights me in its tinyness. It's portable enough for my pocket, which means I can whip it out during DnD and before MtG games to divine my odd of winning. Tarot spreads being what they are, my readings are amusingly difficult to interpret through such a "success vs failure" lens, so that's been a lot of fun.
Also, my ADHD demands I carry no less than 3 separate fidget toys on my person at any given time. A tiny deck to shuffle fulfils that purpose nicely.

I think I might have to stop trying to stack the deck to spring Guerilla Tower Reading Attack!s on my friends, tho. I lost literally every game in my MtG draft tournament, the day I tried that on my friends to fortell them losing our match. The tarot spirits I don't believe in don't seem to like that much.