Alright, let’s talk about this Universal Waite Tarot Deck. I ain’t no scholar or nothin’, but I know a thing or two about cards, ya know? Folks been usin’ ’em for ages to figure stuff out, like what’s gonna happen and what they should do.
So, this Universal Waite deck, it’s like a fancy dress-up version of some older cards. They call it the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, real famous one. This lady, Mary Hanson-Roberts, she took them old cards and slapped some new colors on ’em. Made ’em look all bright and purdy. She knows her stuff, this Mary, ’cause she even made her own deck of cards too, the Hanson-Roberts Tarot. Don’t know how she does it, all them tiny little pictures, but they’re somethin’ alright.
They got other names for it too, this Rider-Waite thing, like Waite-Smith, or Rider-Waite-Smith, or just Rider Tarot. It’s like when folks call ya by your first name, last name, or both, ya know? Anyways, this deck, it’s everywhere. They say there’s more’n a hundred million of ’em floatin’ around, in like twenty different countries! That’s a whole lotta cards, I tell ya. Must be somethin’ special about ’em if so many folks got ’em.
- Marseilles deck: The oldest one, they say. Been around longer than me, that’s for sure.
- Rider-Waite(-Smith) deck: This is the one everyone uses, the one they study. Guess it’s the easiest to understand, or somethin’.
- Crowley and Lady Harris’s Thoth: Now this one’s fancy and complicated. For them brainy types, I reckon. Too much thinkin’ for my old head.
They say the oldest cards they found, somethin’ called the Visconti-Sforza Tarot, well, they was painted way back when for some rich folks in Italy. That was a long, long time ago. Even back then, they had these cards, with all them special picture cards, just like we got now. Ain’t that somethin’? People been lookin’ for answers in cards forever, seems like.
Now, I ain’t gonna lie, I ain’t never seen one of them fancy old Italian cards. But I got myself a Universal Waite deck. It’s easy on the eyes, that’s for sure. The colors are bright and the pictures, well, they tell a story, even if you don’t know nothin’ about tarot. You got your cups, your swords, your wands, and your pentacles. Each one means somethin’, they say. Like, cups are about feelings, and swords are about fightin’, and wands are about doin’ things, and pentacles are about money. That’s what I heard, anyways.
And then you got the big cards, the ones with the fancy names. The Fool, the Magician, the High Priestess. All them folks, they’re like characters in a play, and they all got their own part to play in your life, or so they say. I just look at the pictures and see what comes to mind. Sometimes it makes sense, sometimes it don’t. But it’s always somethin’ to think about.
I heard you can even buy this deck on Amazon. Yeah, that big store where you can get anything. Guess they sell just about everything these days, even fortune-tellin’ cards. I saw it online, they said a whole bunch of folks go there lookin’ for it, over a million in just one month they said. That’s a lot of people wantin’ to see what the cards got to say!
So, that’s the scoop on this Universal Waite Tarot Deck. It’s a pretty deck, a popular deck, and it’s been around for a while, or at least the old version has. If you’re lookin’ for some answers, or just somethin’ to think about, maybe give it a try. Just don’t blame me if the cards tell you somethin’ you don’t wanna hear, ya hear? ‘Cause cards don’t lie, I tell ya, cards don’t lie.
If you wanna know more, you just gotta look around. The internet’s got all sorts of stuff on these cards. Just type in the name and see what pops up. You’ll find more than you can shake a stick at, that’s for sure. Happy card readin’, folks!
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