By the early twentieth century, tarot had acquired an elaborate symbolic scaffolding built by Enlightenment speculators, Romantic mystics, and the occult societies of Victorian Europe. Yet despite all these reinterpretations, the cards themselves had changed very little. Most readers still used Marseille-style decks with their plain pip cards and medieval iconography. If tarot was to become a genuinely readable system for the modern world—intuitive, accessible, … Continue reading The Rider–Waite–Smith Revolution: How a Modern Deck Redefined Tarot