THE

A N T I D O T E - WA I T E -
SMITH
MOTION PICTUR E
TA RO T D E C K
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
 THE
A N T I D O T E -WA I T E -
SMITH
MOTION PICT UR E
TA ROT DECK
FOLIO EDITION

T h i s F olio c onta in s

P i c to r i a l Rep r e s entation s

of

T he Greater A rcana

and their

Di v inatory M eanings

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SHORT I N T RODUCT ION TO
T h e A n t i d o t e - WA I T E - S m i t h
M o t i o n P i c t u r e Ta r o t D e c k
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 clairvoyancecall it as you choose and maywill
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.
 THE DIR ECTOR

Folly, inspiration, guidance, ego,

mania, extravagance, intoxication,
delirium, frenzy, bewrayment.

R e v ersed

Indulgence, negligence, absence,

delegation, carelessness,
apathy, nullity, vanity.

aka The Fool

[  ]
T H E PRO DUC E R

Skill, diplomacy, address,

subtlety; sickness, pain, loss,
disaster, snares of enemies;
self-confidence, will.

R e v ersed

Magus, mental disease,

incompetence, bankruptcy,
disgrace, disquiet.

aka The Magician

[  ]
 T H E PRO DUC T ION
D E S I GN E R

Secrets, vision, constructiveness,

the future as yet unrevealed;
silence, tenacity; mystery,
wisdom, science.

R e v ersed

Passion, moral or physical ardour,

conceit, surface knowledge,
myopia.

aka The High Priestess

[  ]
 T H E P U B L IC I S T

Fruitfulness, action, initiative,

length of days; the unknown,
clandestine; also difficulty,
doubt, ignorance, reification.

R e v ersed

Light, truth, the unravelling

of involved matters;
according to another reading,
vacillation.

aka The Empress

[ 10 ]
T H E S T U D IO H E A D

Power, protection, realization;

a great person; also aid, authority,
conviction and will.

R e v ersed

Benevolence, compassion, credit;

also confusion to enemies,
obstruction, insanity,
immaturity, punishment.

aka The Emperor

[ 12 ]
 THE EDITOR

Marriage, alliance, captivity,

servitude; by another account,
mercy and goodness;
inspiration.

R e v ersed

Society, good understanding,

concord, overkindness, enigma,
enervation, weakness.

aka The Hierophant

[ 14 ]
 T H E AC T O R S

Attraction, love, beauty,

trials overcome, inner radiance,
perquisite packages,
exposure, idolatry.

R e v ersed

Failure, foolish designs, vanity,

irrelevance, desperation,
publicly indecent.

aka The Lovers

[ 16 ]
 THE FIRST
A S S I S TA N T D I R E C T O R

Succour, control, providence;

also war, triumph, expedition,
presumption, vengeance.

R e v ersed

Riot, quarrel, dispute,

litigation, defeat,
disorder, tardiness.

aka The Chariot

[ 18 ]
THE DIR ECTOR OF
PHO T O G R A PH Y

Power, energy, action, courage,

munificence, magnanimity;
also complete success and
honours; the Sun.

R e v ersed

Despotism, abuse of power,

false lights, weakness, discord,
blindness, voyeurism,
sometimes even disgrace.

aka Strength

[ 20 ]
 THE WRITER

Prudence, circumspection,
solitude, dialectical; also and
especially treason, dissimulation,
roguery, corruption.

R e v ersed

Concealment, disguise, policy,

plagiarism, glossoholic,
unreasoned caution,
obsolescence.

aka The Hermit

[ 22 ]
WO R L D PR E M I E R E

Destiny, fortune, success,

elevation, luck, felicity,
extravagance, boffo B.O.,
superf luity.

R e v ersed

Bomb.

aka The Wheel of Fortune

[ 24 ]
 T H E AT T O R N E Y

Equity, rightness, probity,

execution, obfuscation;
triumph of the deserving
side in law.

R e v ersed

Law in all its departments,

excessive complications, wronging
rights, bias, excessive severity,
damages punitively.

aka Justice

[ 26 ]
 T H E A S S I S TA N T

Diligence, circumspection,
discernment, trials, sacrifice,
intuition, recordation,
devotion, prophecy.

R e v ersed

Selfishness, error prone,

dyslexia, schmooziness,
dis-ordered, false reward.

aka The Hanged Man.

[ 28 ]
 THE
EXECUTIVE
PRO DUC E R

End, mortality, destruction,

corruption; also the loss of a
benefactor, many contrarieties,
espresso.

R e v ersed

Inertia, sleep, lethargy,

petrifaction, somnambulism;
hope destroyed,
half-caf skim latte.

aka Death

[ 30 ]
 THE
L I N E PRO DUC E R

Economy, moderation, frugality,

management, accommodation.

R e v ersed

Things connected with

churches, religions, sects, guilds
and Unions; also disunion,
unfortunate combinations,
competing interests,
kickbacks.

aka Temperance

[ 32 ]
 T H E TA L E N T
AG E N T

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 e v ersed

Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness,

vengeant, assassinator,
enlightened.

aka The Devil

[ 34 ]
 T H E S T U D IO

Misery, distress, indigence,

adversity, calamity, disgrace,
decay, deception, ruin;
unforeseen catastrophe.

R e v ersed

According to one account,

the same in a lesser degree;
also oppression,
imprisonment, tyranny.

aka The Tower

[ 36 ]
 THE
OV E R H E A D
DEAL

Hope and bright prospects;

another reading says loss of
self-respect, theft, privation,
abandonment.

R e v ersed

Arrogance, haughtiness,
subservience, impotence,
self-abnegation.

aka The Star

[ 38 ]
 THE
D E V E L O PM E N T
PRO C E S S

Hidden enemies, danger, calumny,

darkness, terror, deception,
occult forces, error.

R e v ersed

Instability, inconstancy,
silence, lesser degrees of
deception and error.

aka The Moon

[ 40 ]
 T H E AC A D E M Y
AWA R D S

Material happiness, contentment,

fortunate marriage, prospects,
white teeth, effulgence.

R e v ersed

Thievery, snub, rip-off,

obscurity, schadenfreude.

aka The Sun

[ 42 ]
 A F T E RWO R D *

by pat robertson
gods 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 sorcerers 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
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 thesethe Chaldeans, the magicians, the astrologers,
the soothsayersthey 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 i on
Arthur Edward Waite, oct. 2, 1857 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 1891 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, 1878 sept. 18, 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 1899 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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