Giant Rider-Waite Tarot Deck: Complete 78-Card Deck [Cards]

Pamela Colman Smith (Author), Arthur Edward Waite (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995

Giant-sized version of the world's most popular tarot deck!

Product Details

• Cards: 78 pages
• Publisher: United States Games Systems (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0880794747
• ISBN-13: 978-0880794749
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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63 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bigger is Better, August 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Giant Rider-Waite Tarot Deck: Complete 78-Card Deck (Cards)

Rider-Waite is the Tarot standard. Combine it with the sheer size of these jumbo cards and you get a higher impact reading. Holding and placing these cards becomes an act that is larger than life. I've found that clients touching these larger cards are more likely to say they feel a special sensation. If the table isn't big enough use the floor. In fact, for nervous first-time clients it's a great ice-breaker.

37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Size for a Collectors' Item, December 25, 2001

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Tan Kwan Seng (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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If you find the artwork of the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck simple yet artistic, then buy this deck. Size does matters when it comes to artwork.

But for those who are thinking of using it to read fortunes for customers, you will find this deck rather "clumsy"; get the normal size deck instead.

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true rectified gallery of the Archetypes, December 9, 2005

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OAKSHAMAN "oakshaman" (Algoma, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giant Rider-Waite Tarot Deck: Complete 78-Card Deck (Cards)

_I finally broke down and treated myself to this giant Rider-Waite tarot deck. I own multiple decks of the standard size and the miniature deck, but I always wanted this larger example of contemplation. I don't use them for reading, but they are perfect for contemplation of the symbolism.

_I only use the Rider-Waite deck for a very good reason. Arthur Waite saw that there had been considerable "drift" in the symbolism of the cards over the years. He took it upon himself as one of the preeminent scholars of the occult of modern times to rectify and restore the deepest archetypical meaning to the deck (including the colors.) After all, that is the meaning of the cards- it is also how they work. These are instruments that resonate with the highest archetypes in the realm of the Forms. This is also why they require contemplation- you have to internalize the deepest traditional meanings. You have to "feel" the cards through deep inner focus on what you have both read and lived. If the cards mean nothing to you, or if you are ignorant of the old meanings, then they simply won't "work." You have to establish a connection- "As above, so below." Skeptics will laugh at this, because to them these are simply pieces of card stock with no "mechanism" to them. The mechanism is in the underlying structure and currents of the cosmos.

_On a mundane note, these cards will last for decades with respectful use. I've even cleaned mine with alcohol and Windex without doing damage to the surface (I had a fool apply scotch tape to one of my decks once...)