RIDER_WAITE_TAROT_DECK

THE ART OF
TAROT DIVINATION
Cups are assumed to represent people with light
brown hair and of fair complexion; Wands represent
those having yellow or red hair and blue eyes;
Swords correspond to persons with dark brown
hair and possibly gray, hazel or even blue eyes;
Pentacles answer to very dark people. The procedure
is as follows:
Select the Significator of the person or thing
about whom or which the inquiry is made. It is the
card which, in the reader’s judgment or experience,
is the most representative, and is not, therefore, of
necessity the Magician or High Priestess mentioned
in the official divinatory meanings. Place the
Significator in the middle. Let the reader and querent
shuffle and cut the remainder of the deck three
times each.
Turn up the FIRST CARD; cover the
Significator therewith, and say; “That covers him.”
This is the person or thing’s general environment at
the time, the influence with which he is actuated all
through.
Turn up the SECOND CARD; put it across him
horizontally, and say: “This represents his obstacles.”
If it is a favorable card, it will be something
good in itself, but not productive of good in the
particular connection.
Turn up the THIRD CARD; place it above the
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