The Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot AND The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack Quotes

“Divination” derives from
the Latin word divinatio, to
divine. Whatever the method,
when we do a divination we seek to
understand, in some small way, the spiritual
patterns that underlie our lives. Divination
systems, especially the more elaborate ones,
almost always reflect a religious or
philosophical system. We may read the Tarot
as a party game, but the game works because
the symbols on the Tarot cards describe the
deeper truths that give meaning to our lives.
And it works because the Tarot consists
of pictures rather than words. While it is true
that people have written hundreds of books
about the Tarot, and that most people who
want to use the cards in a reading look up
their meanings in a book such as this one,
the Tarot remains first and foremost pictures
- mysterious, evocative, suggestive of whole
worlds of meaning.”
― Rachel Pollack, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot AND The Original Rider Waite Tarot Pack