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✦ Tarot Decks

There is no single tarot —
there are lineages.

Three great traditions and a modern explosion of art decks, all descended from one root. Sage reads Rider-Waite-Smith — the most legible of them — but the whole family is worth knowing. Here is where each one sits, and why.

  1. 1650Marseille
  2. 1909RWSSage reads this
  3. 1969Thoth
  4. 2026Modern

1909 · Illustrated Minors

Rider-Waite-Smith

The deck Sage reads — the first to draw a scene on all seventy-eight cards, and now the common tongue of tarot.

★ The deck Sage reads

1969 · Bare Minors

Thoth

RWS's brilliant, difficult cousin — where Rider-Waite-Smith shows you a scene, Thoth shows you a system.

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1650 · Bare Minors

Tarot de Marseille

The elder — the root the other two grew from, spare and austere, read by number, suit, and trained intuition.

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2026 · Illustrated Minors

Modern Decks

Thousands of decks, every art style imaginable — and almost all of them speak the same language underneath.

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