Oct 11, 2025
Top: from Gavin White's Babylonian Starlore (2014)
Bottom: Pamela Colman Smith's original illustration of Strength for the Smith-Waite deck
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Top: from Gavin White's Babylonian Starlore (2014)
Bottom: Pamela Colman Smith's original illustration of Strength for the Smith-Waite deck
For the life of me I can’t find the post on Tumblr advertising these necklaces, but I saw that one of them was Ol’ Pixie and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
Necklace by Quirky Little Girl on Etsy
In early November 1909. an artist is at work in a small studio in London's Chelsea district The 31-year-old artist, Pamela (aka "Pixie") Colman Smith, is a small, slightly plump woman of rather exotic appearance; she sits in the middle of the studio with paint brush in hand, mixing watercolors. She works quickly for the time is short. The printer is waiting. A fully colored set of the cards must be delivered by the middle of November so that the complete deck could be published in December 1909.
Pamela never wrote about her knowledge of the occult mysteries. But the very first card in the deck, "The Magician" (see illustration on the left), is graphic proof that she had acquired some significant esoteric knowledge.
