{"id":18907,"date":"2022-10-10T15:40:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=18907"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:40:45","slug":"the-weiser-tarot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=18907","title":{"rendered":"The Weiser Tarot"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"\"$ Due to its nature, tarot is ripe for assorted interpretations. Decks can differ in art, theme, and\/or purpose, but it is still tarot. However, no matter how far afield a deck my drift, its core, the heart of tarot resides with the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. So let me say, when I saw that Weiser was going to \u201creimagine\u201d or \u201creinvent\u201d the most influential tarot deck ever created, I couldn\u2019t help but feel it could be a lazy cash grab by essentially creating their \u201cown\u201d Rider-Waite-Smith tarot to sell or just kind of bad.<\/p>\n

That was before I learned about the care that was taken in developing \u201cThe Weiser Tarot\u201d. Early on they consulted respected tarot figures such as Mary K. Greer, Rachel Pollack, and Theresa Reed. Weiser started with bare bones of the deck by stripping the art down to just Pamela Coleman Smith\u2019s original line art. From there \u201cone can see flashes of nonbinary individuals or gender ambiguity.\u201d With the exposure of more gender diversity, they then took on the task of correcting the fact that the original deck\u2019s images were exclusively Caucasian. And while they were under hood tinkering with the deck, they added \u201cHebrew and astrological correspondences to the Major Arcana for those who have interest in Qabalah or astrology.\u201d<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ It’s feels weird to say, but Weiser has created the new traditional tarot deck. Since I started writing about magical and occult topics, when people would ask me a good tarot deck to start with, I would always suggest looking at where tarot began, the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. However, why would I do that now? \u201cThe Weiser Tarot\u201d keeps the core of the tarot while making it better represent the diversity of tarot enthusiast today. Every person who loves tarot should have this deck in their collection.<\/p>\n

You can learn more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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