First published in 1920, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot is the instructional guide from the creator of the world's most popular deck -- The Rider-Waite Tarot. Considered essential reading by serious students of Tarot, it is definitely not a "light read". Waite, a well-known occult author and member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, referred to this book as "fragments of a secret tradition under the veil of divination." Contains detailed descriptions of all 72 cards in the Rider-Waite deck, with regular and reversed meanings.