✦ Tarot Decks

Decks

There is no single tarot — there are lineages. The three great traditions (Rider-Waite-Smith, Thoth, Marseille) and the modern art-deck explosion, and why Sage reads RWS.

Rider-Waite-SmithThe deck Sage reads — Smith's illustrated Minors and the scaffold beneath.ThothCrowley & Harris — the esotericist's dense, demanding deck.Tarot de MarseilleThe elder — bare-pip Minors read by number and intuition.Modern DecksThe RWS-based art-deck explosion, and which deck to actually get.

Whichever deck you hold, the card meanings are here — the whole library, RWS all the way down.The Tarot Library