In 1888, the Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn was founded in England.

It attracted many artists and scholars. One of the founders, Dr Wyn Westcott, had been in contact with a student of Ephilas Levi, thus the Tarot connection were made.

This led to the introduction of Mathers MacGregor, who had already written a short article on divination and Tarot. Mathers Macgregor was the diving force behind the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He drew on all mythologies and magical systems, linking the Tarot to a whole network of correlations.

In 1910, a prominent member of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Arthur Edward Waite, produced the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, with the book A Pictorial Key To Tarot.

The art work was by Pamela Coleman Smith, who took inspiration for the minor arcana from the Italian Sola Busca deck. The Ryder-Waite cards are still a widely-used Tarot deck today.

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