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What the Sola Busca tarot is (Italy, around 1490, 78 cards), why we do not sell one, and which illustrated or Marseille-tradition decks to look at instead.

Pamela Colman Smith painted all 78 cards of the 1909 tarot. Read her life, how the deck was made, her style, a dated timeline and why her name now belongs with the deck.

A clear guide to the Rider-Waite tarot: the 1909 deck, Waite and Smith, illustrated number cards, the 78-card structure, how to recognise a deck in this tradition and the names you will see.

Tarot is pronounced "TARR-oh" (rhymes with "arrow"). The final t is silent, because the word comes from French. I...

A standard tarot deck has 78 cards: 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana. Here is why that number stuck, and how the cards are grouped.

The Tarot de Marseille is the oldest living tarot tradition, born in the workshops of 15th-century Europe and sti...