Arthur Edward Waite

British · Late 19th–early 20th century

British occultist, poet, and scholar who co-created the Rider-Waite tarot deck and wrote The Pictorial Key to the Tarot.

Connection to Taylor Swift

Creator of the most widely recognized tarot deck whose iconography, particularly The Fool and The Moon, informs the tarot imagery Taylor uses in The Prophecy.

Notable Works

• The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic