Silver Witchcraft
Rider-Waite simplified with essential RWS symbolism for magical spiritual understanding.
by Barbara Moore, Franco Rivolli · 2014
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The record
The Silver Witchcraft Tarot aims to bridge a gap between traditional Rider-Waite-Smith (RWS) tarot imagery and the world of magical spiritual understanding. This is a deck that is visually stripped down to the very basics of tarot imagery, and shorn of all but the most fundamental RWS symbolism. It has a strong emphasis on colour-coding - greens, blues, purples, and browns dominate this deck - although there is no guide as to what the exact significance of these colours is. Presumably you assign meaning for yourself. The Major Arcana is very sparse in its imagery. All the tableaux are situated on a plinth - which may or may not be referring to an altar; a symbol for the element of earth; a reference to Ceremonial Magic, Kabbala, or alchemy. Or it could simply be a stage for a scene. The bulk of the cards refer explicitly to RWS images, but there are some departures, most notably The Chariot - a couple holding a baby aloft, The Devil - a mirror reflecting a dead tree, Judgement -which is supposedly stars and rays of light but looks like a design for tribal tattoo, a little out of focus. There are other less traditional images for some of the Major Arcana - the Moon and the Sun are
The cards
