Tarot authors, who compose their decks, sometimes overshadow the artists who actually illustrated their concepts in a type of alchemical marriage. The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley, which (to avoid confusion with the book) is most often referred to as the Crowley Thoth, needs no introduction due to its infamous author, the self-proclaimed ‘wickedest man in the world’, who strived to achieve and maintain that reputation by violating all conventions of ordinary human decency. The Rider Waite deck boasts the most well-known cards in all the tarot. The Oswald Wirth deck is an interesting occult tarot deck limited to Major Arcana cards alone. The timeline represented by these ancient cards goes from the earliest surviving trionfi decks until the cards were adapted into a system and studied by occultists and alchemists, presumably during the 1800s. Free tarot, with five of the oldest and most revered decks in the history of tarot.
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