The oldest surviving set of tarot cards, the Visconti-Sforza deck ... around 1780 — and hit pay dirt in 1909 — when Libra mystic Arthur Edward Waite commissioned Pamela Colman Smith, AKA ...

the mystic Etteilla, which lays out how the cards were supposedly once arranged in the Egyptian temple of Memphis, along with instructions for fortunetelling. By the late 19th century, tarot had ...