THE ANTIDOTE-WAITE- SMITH MOTION PICTURE TAROT DECK

THE
A N T I D O T E - WA I T E SMITH
MOTION PICTUR E
TA RO T D E C K
FOLIO EDITION
with
AN EXAMINATION OF THE GREATER ARCANA
and
offered for the edification and improvement
of
the film-related professions
and also The general public,
with
Divinatory Meanings included
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2006
THE
A N T I D O T E -WA I T E SMITH
MOTION PICT UR E
TA ROT DECK
FOLIO EDITION
T h i s F olio c onta in s
P i c to r i a l Rep r e s entation s
of
“ T he Greater A rcana
and their
Di v inatory M eanings ”
antidote books
new york city
2006
SHORT I N T RODUCT ION TO
T h e A n t i d o t e - WA I T E - S m i t h
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The methods and practices of foretelling the future
through divinatory application is the Art, and here it is
given, in brief, the symbolic significance of the Trumps
Major. The records of the Art are ex hypothesi the records
of findings of the past experience; as such, they are a
guide to memory and those who can master the elements
may still ex hypothesi give interpretations on their basis.
It is an official and automatic working. On the other
hand, those who have gifts of intuition, of second sight,
of clairvoyance—call it as you choose and may—will
supplement the experience of the past by the findings of
their own faculty, and will speak of that which they have
seen in the pretexts of the oracles.
THE DIR ECTOR
Folly, inspiration, guidance, ego,
mania, extravagance, intoxication,
delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.
R e v ersed
Indulgence, negligence, absence,
delegation, carelessness,
apathy, nullity, vanity.
aka The Fool
[ ]
T H E PRO DUC E R
Skill, diplomacy, address,
subtlety; sickness, pain, loss,
disaster, snares of enemies;
self-confidence, will.
R e v ersed
Magus, mental disease,
incompetence, bankruptcy,
disgrace, disquiet.
aka The Magician
[ ]
T H E PRO DUC T ION
D E S I GN E R
Secrets, vision, constructiveness,
the future as yet unrevealed;
silence, tenacity; mystery,
wisdom, science.
R e v ersed
Passion, moral or physical ardour,
conceit, surface knowledge,
myopia.
aka The High Priestess
[ ]
T H E P U B L IC I S T
Fruitfulness, action, initiative,
length of days; the unknown,
clandestine; also difficulty,
doubt, ignorance, reification.
R e v ersed
Light, truth, the unravelling
of involved matters;
according to another reading,
vacillation.
aka The Empress
[ 10 ]
T H E S T U D IO H E A D
Power, protection, realization;
a great person; also aid, authority,
conviction and will.
R e v ersed
Benevolence, compassion, credit;
also confusion to enemies,
obstruction, insanity,
immaturity, punishment.
aka The Emperor
[ 12 ]
THE EDITOR
Marriage, alliance, captivity,
servitude; by another account,
mercy and goodness;
inspiration.
R e v ersed
Society, good understanding,
concord, overkindness, enigma,
enervation, weakness.
aka The Hierophant
[ 14 ]
T H E AC T O R S
Attraction, love, beauty,
trials overcome, inner radiance,
perquisite packages,
exposure, idolatry.
R e v ersed
Failure, foolish designs, vanity,
irrelevance, desperation,
publicly indecent.
aka The Lovers
[ 16 ]
THE FIRST
A S S I S TA N T D I R E C T O R
Succour, control, providence;
also war, triumph, expedition,
presumption, vengeance.
R e v ersed
Riot, quarrel, dispute,
litigation, defeat,
disorder, tardiness.
aka The Chariot
[ 18 ]
THE DIR ECTOR OF
PHO T O G R A PH Y
Power, energy, action, courage,
munificence, magnanimity;
also complete success and
honours; the Sun.
R e v ersed
Despotism, abuse of power,
false lights, weakness, discord,
blindness, voyeurism,
sometimes even disgrace.
aka Strength
[ 20 ]
THE WRITER
Prudence, circumspection,
solitude, dialectical; also and
especially treason, dissimulation,
roguery, corruption.
R e v ersed
Concealment, disguise, policy,
plagiarism, glossoholic,
unreasoned caution,
obsolescence.
aka The Hermit
[ 22 ]
WO R L D PR E M I E R E
Destiny, fortune, success,
elevation, luck, felicity,
extravagance, boffo B.O.,
superf luity.
R e v ersed
Bomb.
aka The Wheel of Fortune
[ 24 ]
T H E AT T O R N E Y
Equity, rightness, probity,
execution, obfuscation;
triumph of the deserving
side in law.
R e v ersed
Law in all its departments,
excessive complications, wronging
rights, bias, excessive severity,
damages punitively.
aka Justice
[ 26 ]
T H E A S S I S TA N T
Diligence, circumspection,
discernment, trials, sacrifice,
intuition, recordation,
devotion, prophecy.
R e v ersed
Selfishness, error prone,
dyslexia, schmooziness,
dis-ordered, false reward.
aka The Hanged Man.
[ 28 ]
THE
EXECUTIVE
PRO DUC E R
End, mortality, destruction,
corruption; also the loss of a
benefactor, many contrarieties,
espresso.
R e v ersed
Inertia, sleep, lethargy,
petrifaction, somnambulism;
hope destroyed,
half-caf skim latte.
aka Death
[ 30 ]
THE
L I N E PRO DUC E R
Economy, moderation, frugality,
management, accommodation.
R e v ersed
Things connected with
churches, religions, sects, guilds
and Unions; also disunion,
unfortunate combinations,
competing interests,
kickbacks.
aka Temperance
[ 32 ]
T H E TA L E N T
AG E N T
Ravage, violence, vehemence,
extraordinary efforts, force,
fatality, arrogance, pomposity;
that which is predestined
but is not for this reason evil;
death from a thousand cuts.
R e v ersed
Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness,
vengeant, assassinator,
enlightened.
aka The Devil
[ 34 ]
T H E S T U D IO
Misery, distress, indigence,
adversity, calamity, disgrace,
decay, deception, ruin;
unforeseen catastrophe.
R e v ersed
According to one account,
the same in a lesser degree;
also oppression,
imprisonment, tyranny.
aka The Tower
[ 36 ]
THE
OV E R H E A D
DEAL
Hope and bright prospects;
another reading says loss of
self-respect, theft, privation,
abandonment.
R e v ersed
Arrogance, haughtiness,
subservience, impotence,
self-abnegation.
aka The Star
[ 38 ]
THE
D E V E L O PM E N T
PRO C E S S
Hidden enemies, danger, calumny,
darkness, terror, deception,
occult forces, error.
R e v ersed
Instability, inconstancy,
silence, lesser degrees of
deception and error.
aka The Moon
[ 40 ]
T H E AC A D E M Y
AWA R D S
Material happiness, contentment,
fortunate marriage, prospects,
white teeth, effulgence.
R e v ersed
Thievery, snub, rip-off,
obscurity, schadenfreude.
aka The Sun
[ 42 ]
A F T E RWO R D *
by pat robertson
god’s humble protector
Q.
Where does it say in the Bible that God is against tarot
card readings?
A.
I would look at the book of Isaiah, particularly where it
talks about the ‘spirits that peep and mutter.’ You can look
in the book of Deuteronomy and Leviticus, particularly,
and you can see the prohibitions against witchcraft and
sorcery. Tarot cards are part of the sorcerer’s tools. God
said, ‘Should not a people turn to the Living God and
not to these spirits that peep and mutter?’ There is a
prohibition against those who engage in witchcraft.
As a matter of fact, in the Old Testament, they were
*http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/BringItOn/FalseReligions-index.aspx
stoned to death. It is wrong. It was executable by stoning
in the Old Testament regimes, so this is not exactly
something that God approves of.
All these—the Chaldeans, the magicians, the astrologers,
the soothsayers—they are all part and parcel of the same
thing. They are demonically oriented.
t e x t u a l i n s p i r at i on
Arthur Edward Waite, oct. 2, 1857 – may 19, 1942.
He was an occultist, scholar, are a widely recognized
weirdo. A.E. Waite joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn in 1891 and also entered the Societas Rosicruciana
in Anglia in 1902; in 1915 he formed the Fellowship
of the Rosy Cross. Waite was a prolific author of occult
texts on subjects including divination, Rosicrucianism,
freemasonry, black and ceremonial magic, Kabbalism and
alchemy; he also translated and reissued several important
mystical and alchemical works. His chief claim to fame is
authoring the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards with
illustrator Pamela Colman Smith.
pictorial inspiration
Pamela Colman Smith, feb. 16, 1878 – sept. 18, 1951.
She was an artist, illustrator, and writer. She studied art
at Pratt Institute under the noted artist teacher Arthur
Wesley Dow. She graduated four years later, moved to
England in 1899 where she became a theatrical designer
for a miniature theatre and an illustrator. She joined the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1903, and met Waite.
Her chief claim to fame is designing the Rider-Waite-Smith
deck of tarot cards with writer Arthur Edward Waite.
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