Korean-made tarot card with modern artwork: Soul Waite Tarot Card

Getting back into tarot as a hobby

Back in my twenties, I bought tarot cards as a hobby haha, read for my friends haha, and even did readings for myself every morning haha. Sometimes they really do seem accurate, and the world of tarot feels so fascinating!!

Soul Waite Tarot Card

Soul Waite Tarot Card is an authentic Korean-made deck planned and produced from start to finish by Jeong Hoe-do (Soul Weight Tarot Card).

The full-color guidebook is 36 pages in total, including the cover. The box contains the guidebook and tarot cards.

What kind of tool is a tarot deck?

It is a tool for reading the soul's frequencies. It projects frequencies that cannot be seen with the eyes into pictures, making it a tool for predicting the past and future.

Soul Waite Tarot Card in particular was directly planned and produced by Jeong Hoe-do, one of Korea's leading tarot masters. With cleaner lines, modern colors, and fresh visuals than existing Waite-style decks, it is a tarot deck made for intuitive readings.

A 21st-century version of Rider–Waite

Soul Waite Tarot Card

In 1909, the Rider–Waite deck was created: conceived by Arthur Edward Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. Waite-style cards became the standard for tarot to such an extent that tarot is divided into classic and modern tarot around this point.

Soul Waite Tarot Card refreshingly reimagines the Rider–Waite deck, which was made more than 100 years ago, as a 21st-century version. The deck I already owned was a 20th-century version, you know haha ^^

Comparing the design with my old deck

Doing tarot as a hobby is fun, too. I also read for myself alone. It is definitely cleaner than the tarot-card design I already had, with crisp images in modern colors. I liked how bright it was.

The deck I already owned was a Rider–Waite deck. But doesn't the Soul Waite deck look distinctly different and better at a glance now? Haha

Card selection and finishing

The deck comes in two types of cards: major arcana and minor arcana. I liked that the gold foil and glossy coating gave it an even more luxurious finish.

The cards I drew myself

These are the cards Aromi drew. Even a king sitting on a throne is not always all good, just as drawing the Death card does not mean everything is bad.

Meaning of the Emperor card

This is the Emperor card. Its meanings include conservatism and stubbornness, pride, willpower, responsibility, coolness, institutions, and government. He is also a self-made emperor. That is why he has strong convictions and is very stubborn and proud. He is a king who thinks his word is law.

But once he takes on a task, he sees it through responsibly. In relationships, it may be difficult to get established at first, but once formed, they are said to continue steadily.

Meaning of the Justice card

The Justice card represents cool-headedness, reason, fairness, choosing and giving up, legal issues, and sorting things out. Looking at its hands, it holds scales on one side and a sword on the other. The scales signify fairness and reason, while the sword signifies decisiveness.

This card has the image of a judge you might see in court. It says there could actually be a legal issue. In a relationship, a legal issue means marriage or divorce. For me, it would be marriage, right? Haha

Meaning of the Gwanggaeto the Great card

This is the Gwanggaeto the Great card. It carries meanings of passion, being proactive and active, skillfulness, being hands-on, multitasking, being hot-tempered, and conflict. It represents a capable person who is proactive, active, and able to multitask. A quintessential hands-on type, it plays the role of one person doing the work of a hundred when helping out or getting things done.

At first I thought the cards I drew were a coincidence, but it was fascinating because they were amusingly exactly like my personality. I drew the cards while wondering what my future with my partner would be like. I think it would be fun to have friends over and do it together, too.