It was the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, however, that reimagined tarot for the 20th-century — and cemented its power to evolve across generations. Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith and commissioned ...

the original deck was expanded and popularised by 18th-century French occultists; and again later in the 20th century, when modern tarot was born thanks to the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, published in ...