The Ace of Pentacles comment re the stone rolling away from the tomb is especially interesting... I think a lot of people, not just Waite, and going back to the Marseille deck, have seen the Ace of Cups as representing the Grail, historically. So providing a "hint" of the "stone rolli...

I have been doing Venn diagrams of the minor arcana 2-10 cards -- the ones that RWS was basically the first to illustrate with non-abstract designs. The diagrams trace the astrological/qabalistic/elemental influences to specific divinatory meanings and graphic elements. https://www.islevue.com/wp-co...

This is my latest article from my web site. It's RWS-centric, though I throw in a comparison with the Lo Scarabeo deck. Summary: We examine the four Knights of the Waite Colman Smith deck. We look, in particular, at the Book T’s assignment of astrological dates to them, and examine how Colman Smith ...

Great article, thanks.