One of the main characteristics of the Raider-Waite deck is the simplicity of its images, which does not free them from being loaded with symbolism, a fact that facilitates the oracle's work by exciting its imagination and intuition. Responsible for the pictorial work of these Tarot cards is the versatile English illustrator Pamela Colman Smith, who met Arthur Edward Waite in the halls of the famous mystical order Golden Dawn. Once they met, in such a favorable environment, Waite commissioned her to illustrate his vision of a new Tarot, and Pamela was responsible for creating them and endowing them with her special sensitivity, counting on the inspiration of the symbolism of the 19th-century magician and occultist Eliphas Levi. The rest is history...
