#WeirdWeekend#TarotReading#PamelaColemanSmith#RyderWaiteTarot
Here's some interesting arcana about the tarot and the English artist Pamela Colman Smith 1878 - 1951.
She received notoriety as the co-designer and artist of the Rider-Waite deck of Tarot cards, which was made in April of 1909. Using Rider Publisher, she and Arthur Edward Waite, an author and occultist, were the co-designers of these world-wide-known Rider-Waite Tarot cards. To supplement the cards, Waite wrote a guide, “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot” published in 1911, which is still available. She had painted each card in bright colors, yet the prints in Waite's book were black and white not showing the true beauty of her cards. As a child she moved between Britain, the United States, and Jamaica; she spoke with a Jamaican Creole accent. Known as “Pixie” to her friends, she appeared as one with her petite, exotic appearance and fashion statements. After touring with a theater group around the United States, in 1893 she enrolled at the Morris Pratt Institute to study fine art. Her art instructor Arthur Wesley Dow inspired her to work through the sensory technique. By playing music, she would “see music” in colored pictures, thus this became the technique she later used to design the Rider-Waite Tarot cards.
On a personal note, I "see" music as colors and pictures too!
When the world feels too dark, read a children's book.
When you need to feel hope, read a children's book.
When you need to believe in magic, read a children's book. Children's lit is a balm to those worn out & in need of wonder. Never dismiss these books as "just for children."
Earlier this year, I decided to finally sort out my life and get organized. I went out to buy a planner.
A thread of trying, and failing, to be normal.
We’re one week out from the thing I’ve worked my whole life for: my first book escaping into the world!
So I'm going to pause doing a million things a minute for a Book News Thread! Y'all like books?
I keep thinking about making this thread, and hemming and hawing about whether it's weird, and it's now just late enough at night for me not to care if it's weird. So! Commence thread of !good! yelling about Scott H. Andrews of BCS.