Modern Tarot: 1909-Present
Modern tarot was born in 1909, when a scholar named Arthur Edward Waite designed a new tarot deck—and when he asked Pamela Coleman Smith to execute his designs. By trade, …
Madame Lenormand’s Cards of Fortune
In Paris, a fortuneteller named Marie-Anne Adelaide Lenormand was renowned for her card-reading skills. Though her deck wasn’t a tarot deck, her technique set the tone for generations of seers …
The Casanova Cards
In Russia, a teenage peasant girl named Zaira learned the art of card-reading from travelling fortune tellers. In 1765, when she became the love slave of the notorious Giacomo Casanova, …
Bianca Maria Visconti’s Tarot
Above: Bianca Maria Visconti as the Virgin with her eldest son, Galeazzo Maria, as the Child Jesus Christ and her husband, Francesco Sforza (left), as Saint Franziskus of Assisi and …
Tarot’s Language of Love
Tarot cards were first developed in Italy, and then spread to France. Given the fact that those are two of the most romantic cultures in history, it’s probably not surprising …
Madame Sosostris
Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards. Here, said she, Is your card, …