The High Priestess: Symbolizes intuition, higher powers, and the subconscious mind. It calls for trust in one’s inner voice.

The Hermit: Represents introspection, solitude, and contemplation. It suggests a time for inward focus and reflection.

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Step 2 – Begin by reading the name of the Tarot card aloud. You can say “This card is Queen of Swords” Death: Represents endings, change, and transformation. It does not typically denote physical death but rather an end to a situation or phase. An image and its story form a symbol, and the Tarot can be viewed as a book of symbols. As A. E. Waite wrote in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: “The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.” Or as Willian Gray stated in Magical Ritual Methods: “Magical symbols are fundamental concepts for energy-exchanges between very different levels (or “worlds”) of living.” Giles, Cynthia (1994). The Tarot: History, Mystery, and Lore. New York: Simon & Schuster. p.46. ISBN 0671891014. Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, September, 2000 and June, 2003 by John Bruno Hare. This text and the accompanying illustrations are in the public domain in the United States of America because they were published prior to 1923.

At the same time, practicing drawing a card to answer a simple question is also the most effective way to help readers remember the card. For simple questions that need a not-so-complicated answer, drawing a Tarot card that directly answers that question is much simpler and less time-consuming than a complicated and lengthy spread. Her fine art does represent this moment of people finding solace in more spiritual concerns, especially at a time when industry seems to be taking over creating a sense of fragmentation and isolation,” Haskell explained.Dean, Liz (2015). The Ultimate Guide to Tarot: A Beginner's Guide to the Cards, Spreads, and Revealing the Mystery of the Tarot. Beverly, Massachusetts: Fair Winds Press. p.9. ISBN 978-1592336579. Divided into the Major and Minor Arcanas, the cards still have the original design by Pamela Colman Smith, carried out in accordance with A. E. Waite's instructions. Robert Mazlo: A la recherche du Tarot perdu. Les tablettes d'Hermès, ISBN 2-910401-86-3, Ramuel Ed. (1998)

Place, Robert M. (2005). The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin. p.129. She represented this whole mood at the turn of the century, which was to delve into the unconscious and tap into the intuitive experience,” she said. “To not get so involved in concrete, rational facts, but to really explore these more emotional realms.” The Tower: Symbolizes sudden upheaval, chaos, and revelation. It represents a transformative crisis, a “breaking down” to make way for the new. The Devil: Represents bondage, addiction, and materialism. It signifies an unhealthy relationship with the material world or self-imposed limitations. People new to Tarot are often surprised to find they can immediately start applying basic interpretation skills with the Rider Waite. As an example, the Six of Cups depicts two children in a garden, with pots filled with white flowers around them. The boy smells the flowers in a pot that he offers to the girl, whose hand is outstretched, ready to receive them. Already, rather like in a captured moment in a photo, we can see some sort of ‘story’ here, one of innocence, gifts, love, kindness and growth.Waite and Smith shared the Rosicrucian understanding of correspondences, an idea she used to paint pictures that came to mind, whenever she heard music (an ability known as synaesthesia). This, together with her theatrical involvements and travels to Jamaica, may all have contributed to the liveliness and broad range of imagery on the Rider Waite cards. Smith’s colour palette has its own system of correspondences; some of the Rider Waite ‘clones’, such as the Universal Waite, feature alternative colour schemes. Smith was the first non-photographic artist to be exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz's Gallery 291. Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe Archive; Yale Collection of American Literature