Abrac
In Kaplan’s Encyclopedia of Tarot, Vol. 3, p. 29, he quotes Waite’s Shadows of Life and Thought where Waite describes how he came to recruit PCS to do the art for the Waite-Smith tarot. Right after that, Kaplan writes, “Waite instructed Pamela to create images that ‘follow very carefully the astrological significance of each suit as it is influenced by different astrological signs.’ ” He gives no reference for this quote, but as it follows directly after his long quote from Shadows, it looks like that may be the source. My question is, has anyone read Waite’s bio and know if this is actually the case? If this truly is something Waite wrote, it seems like an important bit of information about how closely Waite was following the GD decan system.