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T H EA N T I D O T E -WA I T E -
S M I T HMO T ION PIC T U R E
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F O L I O E D I T I O N
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SHORT IN TRODUCTION TO
T he A n T idoT e -WAi T e - Smi T h
moT ion PicT u r e TAroT deck
The methods and practices of foretelling the future
through divinatory application is the Art, and here it is
given, in brief, the symbolic significance of the Trumps
Major. The records of the Art are ex hypothesi the records
of findings of the past experience; as such, they are a
guide to memory and those who can master the elements
may still ex hypothesi give interpretations on their basis.
It is an official and automatic working. On the other
hand, those who have gifts of intuition, of second sight,
of clairvoyance—call it as you choose and may—will
supplement the experience of the past by the findings of
their own faculty, and will speak of that which they have
seen in the pretexts of the oracles.
[ 4 ]
THE DIRECTOR
Folly, inspiration, guidance, ego,
mania, extravagance, intoxication,
delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
R EvERSED
Indulgence, negligence, absence,
delegation, carelessness,
apathy, nullity, vanity.
aka The Fool
[ 6 ]
THE PRODUCER
Skill, diplomacy, address,
subtlety; sickness, pain, loss,
disaster, snares of enemies;
self-confidence, will.
R EvERSED
Magus, mental disease,
incompetence, bankruptcy,
disgrace, disquiet.
aka The Magician
[ � ]
THE PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Secrets, vision, constructiveness,
the future as yet unrevealed;
silence, tenacity; mystery,
wisdom, science.
R EvERSED
Passion, moral or physical ardour,
conceit, surface knowledge,
myopia.
aka The High Priestess
[ 10 ]
THE PUBLICIST
Fruitfulness, action, initiative,
length of days; the unknown,
clandestine; also diff iculty,
doubt, ignorance, reif ication.
R EvERSED
Light, truth, the unravelling
of involved matters;
according to another reading,
vacillation.
aka The Empress
[ 12 ]
THE STUDIO HEAD
Power, protection, realization;
a great person; also aid, authority,
conviction and will.
R EvERSED
Benevolence, compassion, credit;
also confusion to enemies,
obstruction, insanity,
immaturity, punishment.
aka The Emperor
[ 14 ]
THE EDITOR
Marriage, all iance, captivity,
servitude; by another account,
mercy and goodness;
inspiration.
R EvERSED
Society, good understanding,
concord, overkindness, enigma,
enervation, weakness.
aka The Hierophant
[ 16 ]
THE ACTORS
Attraction, love, beauty,
trials overcome, inner radiance,
perquisite packages,
exposure, idolatry.
R EvERSED
Failure, foolish designs, vanity,
irrelevance, desperation,
publicly indecent.
aka The Lovers
[ 1� ]
THE FIRSTASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Succour, control, providence;
also war, triumph, expedition,
presumption, vengeance.
R EvERSED
Riot, quarrel, dispute,
l it igation, defeat,
disorder, tardiness.
aka The Chariot
[ 20 ]
THE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Power, energy, action, courage,
munificence, magnanimity;
also complete success and
honours; the Sun.
R EvERSED
Despotism, abuse of power,
false l ights, weakness, discord,
blindness, voyeurism,
sometimes even disgrace.
aka Strength
[ 22 ]
THE WRITER
Prudence, circumspection,
solitude, dialectical; also and
especially treason, dissimulation,
roguery, corruption.
R EvERSED
Concealment, disguise, policy,
plagiarism, glossoholic,
unreasoned caution,
obsolescence.
aka The Hermit
[ 24 ]
WORLD PREMIERE
Destiny, fortune, success,
elevation, luck, felicity,
extravagance, boffo B.O.,
superf luity.
R EvERSED
Bomb.
aka The Wheel of Fortune
[ 26 ]
THE ATTORNEY
Equity, rightness, probity,
execution, obfuscation;
triumph of the deserving
side in law.
R EvERSED
Law in all its departments,
excessive complications, wronging
rights, bias, excessive severity,
damages punitively.
aka Justice
[ 2� ]
THE ASSISTANT
Diligence, circumspection,
discernment, trials, sacrif ice,
intuition, recordation,
devotion, prophecy.
R EvERSED
Selfishness, error prone,
dyslexia, schmooziness,
dis-ordered, false reward.
aka The Hanged Man.
[ 30 ]
THE EXECUTIvE PRODUCER
End, mortality, destruction,
corruption; also the loss of a
benefactor, many contrarieties,
espresso.
R EvERSED
Inertia, sleep, lethargy,
petrifaction, somnambulism;
hope destroyed,
half-caf skim latte.
aka Death
[ 32 ]
THE LINE PRODUCER
Economy, moderation, frugality,
management, accommodation.
R EvERSED
Things connected with
churches, religions, sects, guilds
and Unions; also disunion,
unfortunate combinations,
competing interests,
kickbacks.
aka Temperance
[ 34 ]
THE TALENT AGENT
Ravage, violence, vehemence,
extraordinary efforts, force,
fatality, arrogance, pomposity;
that which is predestined
but is not for this reason evil;
death from a thousand cuts.
R EvERSED
Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness,
vengeant, assassinator,
enlightened.
aka The Devil
[ 36 ]
THE STUDIO
Misery, distress, indigence,
adversity, calamity, disgrace,
decay, deception, ruin;
unforeseen catastrophe.
R EvERSED
According to one account,
the same in a lesser degree;
also oppression,
imprisonment, tyranny.
aka The Tower
[ 3� ]
THEOvERHEAD
DEAL
Hope and bright prospects;
another reading says loss of
self-respect, theft, privation,
abandonment.
R EvERSED
Arrogance, haughtiness,
subservience, impotence,
self-abnegation.
aka The Star
[ 40 ]
THEDEvELOPMENT
PROCESS
Hidden enemies, danger, calumny,
darkness, terror, deception,
occult forces, error.
R EvERSED
Instability, inconstancy,
silence, lesser degrees of
deception and error.
aka The Moon
[ 42 ]
THE ACADEMY AWARDS
Material happiness, contentment,
fortunate marriage, prospects,
white teeth, effulgence.
R EvERSED
Thievery, snub, rip-off,
obscurity, schadenfreude.
aka The Sun
A F TERWOR D*
by pat robertson
god’s humble protector
Q.
Where does it say in the Bible that God is against tarot
card readings?
A.
I would look at the book of Isaiah, particularly where it
talks about the ‘spirits that peep and mutter.’ You can look
in the book of Deuteronomy and Leviticus, particularly,
and you can see the prohibitions against witchcraft and
sorcery. Tarot cards are part of the sorcerer’s tools. God
said, ‘Should not a people turn to the Living God and
not to these spirits that peep and mutter?’ There is a
prohibition against those who engage in witchcraft.
As a matter of fact, in the Old Testament, they were
*http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/BringItOn/FalseReligions-index.aspx
stoned to death. It is wrong. It was executable by stoning
in the Old Testament regimes, so this is not exactly
something that God approves of.
All these—the Chaldeans, the magicians, the astrologers,
the soothsayers—they are all part and parcel of the same
thing. They are demonically oriented.
t e x t u a l i n s p i r at ion
Arthur Edward Waite, oct. 2, 1�57 – may 19, 1942.
He was an occultist, scholar, are a widely recognized
weirdo. A.E. Waite joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn in 1�91 and also entered the Societas Rosicruciana
in Anglia in 1902; in 1915 he formed the Fellowship
of the Rosy Cross. Waite was a prolific author of occult
texts on subjects including divination, Rosicrucianism,
freemasonry, black and ceremonial magic, Kabbalism and
alchemy; he also translated and reissued several important
mystical and alchemical works. His chief claim to fame is
authoring the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards with
illustrator Pamela Colman Smith.
pictorial inspiration
Pamela Colman Smith, feb. 16, 1�7� – sept. 1�, 1951.
She was an artist, illustrator, and writer. She studied art
at Pratt Institute under the noted artist teacher Arthur
Wesley Dow. She graduated four years later, moved to
England in 1�99 where she became a theatrical designer
for a miniature theatre and an illustrator. She joined the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1903, and met Waite.
Her chief claim to fame is designing the Rider-Waite-Smith
deck of tarot cards with writer Arthur Edward Waite.
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