The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot

A comprehensive companion to the most influential tarot deck ever made. For anyone who works with the Rider-Waite-Smith cards, Fiebig's guide goes image by image through their symbolism, history, and meaning.

The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot treats all seventy-eight cards of the 1909 Waite-Smith deck in depth — the symbolism of each picture, its upright and reversed readings, and its place within the Major and Minor Arcana. It covers the deck's origins with Arthur Edward Waite and artist Pamela Colman Smith, approaches to spreads and interpretation, and the iconography that has shaped more than a century of tarot. Generously illustrated, it serves both newcomers learning the cards and experienced readers deepening their practice.

• Author: Johannes Fiebig
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Published: 2013

About the Author — Johannes Fiebig

German tarot author and longtime student of the Waite-Smith system, known for accessible, image-led guides to the deck written over several decades, frequently in collaboration with Evelin Bürger.