What makes The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith stand out is how much the book emphasizes the creative process and treats the cards like art.

For many of those searching for new spiritual practices and meaning, reading tarot cards satisfies a yearning for a coherent personal story transmitted through a ritual. Tarot also encourages the ...

But the tarot was truly adopted for purposes of fortune telling in France around 1780 — and hit pay dirt in 1909 — when Libra mystic Arthur Edward Waite commissioned Pamela Colman Smith ...