As belief in traditional religion decreases and the rise of alternative spirituality continues, this form of ...

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 ...

Examples of tarot cards as an art form include Pamela Colman Smith’s iconic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck and the Thoth Tarot deck created by Lady Frieda Harris, which is on view in the ...

In reporting my book on the modern New Age movement, I found myself linking arms with generations of women seeking answers.

“They’re connected to playing cards.” “Nobody really knows.” Tarot – Origins & Afterlives ... it visually resembles “The Magician” from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, while the ...

For a time, I found something spiritual—or spiritual-seeming—in tarot cards, a tool long deployed by thinkers in New Age circles. I bought a classic Rider-Waite-Smith deck from a New Age ...