I hope to convey the idea of movement… This really means that you can look at any of the pictures, thinking in what I may describe as four dimensions. In nearly all the designs, the straight line of the former cards - such as check patterns, the rays of the sun, the chart of the Universe and the stars, are expressed in a curve. Therefore I have tried to introduce among the card an element of Time. I have made an effort in the present pack to embody this current mode of the century. Regarded as such they represent a convenient means of stating cosmic problems… They are a Map of the Universe and they might quite easily be compared with the symbols of mathematics. In her letters to Aleister Crowley, Lady Frieda Harris wrote that, “ Contrary to everybody’s impression, the Tarot Cards were not intended for the purposes of divination.
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