Tarot

Draws a single card, three cards or the ten-card Celtic Cross from the 78-card Rider–Waite deck, with reversals, giving keywords and upright and reversed meanings, and for each trump its Golden Dawn Hebrew letter and path. The deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to A. E. Waite’s design, appeared in 1909; Waite’s Pictorial Key to the Tarot gives the Celtic Cross. Tarot began as a fifteenth-century Italian card game.

• A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: Rider, 1910–11), part III, §7, Wikisource
• Michael Dummett, The Game of Tarot (London: Duckworth, 1980)