Tarot — The 22 Major Arcana

All 22 Major Arcana of the Rider–Waite–Smith tarot, gathered on one chart in the 1909 order, from The Fool to The World. The full deck has 78 cards: 22 major and 56 minor. Pamela Colman Smith drew them between April and October 1909, to the instructions of A. E. Waite, and William Rider & Son published them in London in December that year. Waite switched two cards, putting Strength at VIII and Justice at XI, and the chart follows his order.

The Fool (0) sits larger at the head, between two notes on the deck's history, above three rows of seven. Under each card are its numeral, its French name and two words of divinatory meaning taken from Waite: Folly, extravagance for The Fool, End, mortality for Death, Hope, bright prospects for The Star. Across the top, the big "Major Arcana" title with a French subtitle: "the twenty-two major arcana, with their divinatory meaning according to A. E. Waite".

A chart to read up close

Ivory ground, black ink and oxblood red: it looks like an old cabinet-of-curiosities plate. The labels are small, as on any chart, so hang it at eye level, near a desk, a bookcase or the table where you read the cards.

Cards by Pamela Colman Smith, from the cleaned scans on Wikimedia Commons (public domain); meanings from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot.

The other cards are on the Tarot & Occult page, with the whole Gothic world next door.

Printed in Tunisia, paid on delivery.