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"The Rider-Waite deck was designed for divination and included a book written by Waite in which he explained much of the esoteric meaning behind the imagery,"says Wolf. “People say its revolutionary point of genius is that the pip cards are ‘illustrated,' meaning that Colman Smith incorporated the number of suit signs into little scenes, and when taken together, they tell a story in pictures. This strong narrative element gives readers something to latch onto, in that it is relatively intuitive to look at a combination of cards and derive your own story from them.
“偉特牌一開始就是被設計用來占卜的，并附帶一本由Waite撰寫的書，解釋圖畫背后蘊含的意思，”Wolf說。“人們說他們帶來的最大改變就是副牌組也有了插圖，Colman Smith把原先上面的數字改成了小的圖案，幾張牌上的圖案可以連成一段話，占卜者可以從里面牽強的意義里附會出什么東西，由此就可以按直覺把這些牌聯系起來，從中得出一段預言。”
"The deck really took off in popularity when Stuart Kaplan obtained the publishing rights and developed an audience for it in the early '70s," says Wolf. Kaplan helped renew interest in card reading with his 1977 book, Tarot Cards for Fun and Fortune Telling, and has since written several volumes on tarot.
“直到1970年代初Stuart Kaplan得到了偉特牌的發行權，并把它推廣，這副塔羅牌才真正變得流行起來，”Wolf說。Kaplan用他1977年推出的《有趣的塔羅牌，預知未來》重新喚起了人們的興趣，并且之后發行了好幾個版本的塔羅牌。
A version of the popular Rider-Waite deck from 1920. Photo courtesy Bill Wolf.
一種1920年流行的偉特牌
