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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.
“伟特牌一开始就是被设计用来占卜的，并附带一本由Waite撰写的书，解释图画背后蕴含的意思，”Wolf说。“人们说他们带来的最大改变就是副牌组也有了插图，Colman Smith把原先上面的数字改成了小的图案，几张牌上的图案可以连成一段话，占卜者可以从里面牵强的意义里附会出什么东西，由此就可以按直觉把这些牌联系起来，从中得出一段预言。”
"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得到了伟特牌的发行权，并把它推广，这副塔罗牌才真正变得流行起来，”Wolf说。Kaplan用他1977年推出的《有趣的塔罗牌，预知未来》重新唤起了人们的兴趣，并且之后发行了好几个版本的塔罗牌。
A version of the popular Rider-Waite deck from 1920. Photo courtesy Bill Wolf.
一种1920年流行的伟特牌
