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THE ANTIDOTE-WAITE- SMITH MOTION PICTURE TAROT DECK FOLIO EDITION with AN EXAMINATION OF THE GREATER ARCANA and OFFERED FOR THE EDIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT of THE FILM-RELATED PROFESSIONS AND ALSO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, with DIVINATORY MEANINGS INCLUDED antidote books new york city 2006

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T H EA N T I D O T E -WA I T E -

SM I T HMO T ION PIC T U R E

TA RO T DEC K

F O L I O E D I T I O N

with

AN EXAMINATION OF THE GREATER ARCANA

and

OFFEREd FOR THE EdIFICATION ANd IMpROvEMENT

of

THE FIlM-RElATEd pROFEssIONs

ANd AlsO THE GENERAl publIC,

with

dIvINATORy MEANINGs INCludEd

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2006

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T H EA N T I D O T E -WA I T E -

S M I T HMO T ION PIC T U R E

TA RO T DE C K

F O L I O E D I T I O N

T h Is FOL IO cONTa I Ns

PIcTOr I a L r EPr EsENTaT IONs

o f

“THE GR E ATER A RC A NA

a nd t he i r

DI v INATORy ME A NINGS”

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2006

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SHORT IN TRODUCTION TO

T he A n T idoT e -WAi T e - Smi T h

moT ion PicT u r e TAroT deck

The methods and practices of foretelling the future

through divinatory application is the Art, and here it is

given, in brief, the symbolic significance of the Trumps

Major. The records of the Art are ex hypothesi the records

of findings of the past experience; as such, they are a

guide to memory and those who can master the elements

may still ex hypothesi give interpretations on their basis.

It is an official and automatic working. On the other

hand, those who have gifts of intuition, of second sight,

of clairvoyance—call it as you choose and may—will

supplement the experience of the past by the findings of

their own faculty, and will speak of that which they have

seen in the pretexts of the oracles.

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[ 4 ]

THE DIRECTOR

Folly, inspiration, guidance, ego,

mania, extravagance, intoxication,

delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.

R EvERSED

Indulgence, negligence, absence,

delegation, carelessness,

apathy, nullity, vanity.

aka The Fool

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THE PRODUCER

Skill, diplomacy, address,

subtlety; sickness, pain, loss,

disaster, snares of enemies;

self-confidence, will.

R EvERSED

Magus, mental disease,

incompetence, bankruptcy,

disgrace, disquiet.

aka The Magician

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THE PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Secrets, vision, constructiveness,

the future as yet unrevealed;

silence, tenacity; mystery,

wisdom, science.

R EvERSED

Passion, moral or physical ardour,

conceit, surface knowledge,

myopia.

aka The High Priestess

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THE PUBLICIST

Fruitfulness, action, initiative,

length of days; the unknown,

clandestine; also diff iculty,

doubt, ignorance, reif ication.

R EvERSED

Light, truth, the unravelling

of involved matters;

according to another reading,

vacillation.

aka The Empress

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THE STUDIO HEAD

Power, protection, realization;

a great person; also aid, authority,

conviction and will.

R EvERSED

Benevolence, compassion, credit;

also confusion to enemies,

obstruction, insanity,

immaturity, punishment.

aka The Emperor

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THE EDITOR

Marriage, all iance, captivity,

servitude; by another account,

mercy and goodness;

inspiration.

R EvERSED

Society, good understanding,

concord, overkindness, enigma,

enervation, weakness.

aka The Hierophant

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THE ACTORS

Attraction, love, beauty,

trials overcome, inner radiance,

perquisite packages,

exposure, idolatry.

R EvERSED

Failure, foolish designs, vanity,

irrelevance, desperation,

publicly indecent.

aka The Lovers

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[ 1� ]

THE FIRSTASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Succour, control, providence;

also war, triumph, expedition,

presumption, vengeance.

R EvERSED

Riot, quarrel, dispute,

l it igation, defeat,

disorder, tardiness.

aka The Chariot

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THE DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Power, energy, action, courage,

munificence, magnanimity;

also complete success and

honours; the Sun.

R EvERSED

Despotism, abuse of power,

false l ights, weakness, discord,

blindness, voyeurism,

sometimes even disgrace.

aka Strength

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THE WRITER

Prudence, circumspection,

solitude, dialectical; also and

especially treason, dissimulation,

roguery, corruption.

R EvERSED

Concealment, disguise, policy,

plagiarism, glossoholic,

unreasoned caution,

obsolescence.

aka The Hermit

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WORLD PREMIERE

Destiny, fortune, success,

elevation, luck, felicity,

extravagance, boffo B.O.,

superf luity.

R EvERSED

Bomb.

aka The Wheel of Fortune

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THE ATTORNEY

Equity, rightness, probity,

execution, obfuscation;

triumph of the deserving

side in law.

R EvERSED

Law in all its departments,

excessive complications, wronging

rights, bias, excessive severity,

damages punitively.

aka Justice

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THE ASSISTANT

Diligence, circumspection,

discernment, trials, sacrif ice,

intuition, recordation,

devotion, prophecy.

R EvERSED

Selfishness, error prone,

dyslexia, schmooziness,

dis-ordered, false reward.

aka The Hanged Man.

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THE EXECUTIvE PRODUCER

End, mortality, destruction,

corruption; also the loss of a

benefactor, many contrarieties,

espresso.

R EvERSED

Inertia, sleep, lethargy,

petrifaction, somnambulism;

hope destroyed,

half-caf skim latte.

aka Death

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THE LINE PRODUCER

Economy, moderation, frugality,

management, accommodation.

R EvERSED

Things connected with

churches, religions, sects, guilds

and Unions; also disunion,

unfortunate combinations,

competing interests,

kickbacks.

aka Temperance

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THE TALENT AGENT

Ravage, violence, vehemence,

extraordinary efforts, force,

fatality, arrogance, pomposity;

that which is predestined

but is not for this reason evil;

death from a thousand cuts.

R EvERSED

Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness,

vengeant, assassinator,

enlightened.

aka The Devil

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THE STUDIO

Misery, distress, indigence,

adversity, calamity, disgrace,

decay, deception, ruin;

unforeseen catastrophe.

R EvERSED

According to one account,

the same in a lesser degree;

also oppression,

imprisonment, tyranny.

aka The Tower

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[ 3� ]

THEOvERHEAD

DEAL

Hope and bright prospects;

another reading says loss of

self-respect, theft, privation,

abandonment.

R EvERSED

Arrogance, haughtiness,

subservience, impotence,

self-abnegation.

aka The Star

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THEDEvELOPMENT

PROCESS

Hidden enemies, danger, calumny,

darkness, terror, deception,

occult forces, error.

R EvERSED

Instability, inconstancy,

silence, lesser degrees of

deception and error.

aka The Moon

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THE ACADEMY AWARDS

Material happiness, contentment,

fortunate marriage, prospects,

white teeth, effulgence.

R EvERSED

Thievery, snub, rip-off,

obscurity, schadenfreude.

aka The Sun

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A F TERWOR D*

by pat robertson

god’s humble protector

Q.

Where does it say in the Bible that God is against tarot

card readings?

A.

I would look at the book of Isaiah, particularly where it

talks about the ‘spirits that peep and mutter.’ You can look

in the book of Deuteronomy and Leviticus, particularly,

and you can see the prohibitions against witchcraft and

sorcery. Tarot cards are part of the sorcerer’s tools. God

said, ‘Should not a people turn to the Living God and

not to these spirits that peep and mutter?’ There is a

prohibition against those who engage in witchcraft.

As a matter of fact, in the Old Testament, they were

*http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/BringItOn/FalseReligions-index.aspx

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stoned to death. It is wrong. It was executable by stoning

in the Old Testament regimes, so this is not exactly

something that God approves of.

All these—the Chaldeans, the magicians, the astrologers,

the soothsayers—they are all part and parcel of the same

thing. They are demonically oriented.

t e x t u a l i n s p i r at ion

Arthur Edward Waite, oct. 2, 1�57 – may 19, 1942.

He was an occultist, scholar, are a widely recognized

weirdo. A.E. Waite joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden

Dawn in 1�91 and also entered the Societas Rosicruciana

in Anglia in 1902; in 1915 he formed the Fellowship

of the Rosy Cross. Waite was a prolific author of occult

texts on subjects including divination, Rosicrucianism,

freemasonry, black and ceremonial magic, Kabbalism and

alchemy; he also translated and reissued several important

mystical and alchemical works. His chief claim to fame is

authoring the Rider-Waite-Smith deck of tarot cards with

illustrator Pamela Colman Smith.

pictorial inspiration

Pamela Colman Smith, feb. 16, 1�7� – sept. 1�, 1951.

She was an artist, illustrator, and writer. She studied art

at Pratt Institute under the noted artist teacher Arthur

Wesley Dow. She graduated four years later, moved to

England in 1�99 where she became a theatrical designer

for a miniature theatre and an illustrator. She joined the

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1903, and met Waite.

Her chief claim to fame is designing the Rider-Waite-Smith

deck of tarot cards with writer Arthur Edward Waite.

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colophon

This text was set Perpetua, designed in 1929–30

by Eric Gill of Brighton, England.

The display text was set in Bodoni Old Face,

based on an original 179� design of

Giovanni Battista Bodoni of Turin, Italy.

Printed on [paper].

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