Included in the esocteric teachings deciphered in the foundational cipher manuscripts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, was an authoritative determination that the Fool be placed as the first of the Tarot trumps, before the Juggler, (which in the Golden Dawn Tarot was called the Magician). This advanced all the other Trump associations by one letter.

Folio 32 denotes some kind of switch required between paths 19 and 22: the ATUs Strength and Justice.

In the older Marseilles-based decks, these cards appeared to have their images (and hence, titles) mixed up when sorted in order and compared to the zodiacal correspondences of the associated sequence of Hebrew letters. The trump XI 'Strength' shows in its picture a lion - clearly analagous to the sign of Leo (VIII), whereas the trump VIII 'Justice' depicts a set of scales - the primary sign of Libra (XI), and still a symbol of justice used today.
There is clearly a mis-match in the symbolism of the older arrangements, corrected by the revealations in the cipher manuscript.


This was corrected in the Rider–Waite Tarot (also known as the Rider-Waite-Smith or RWS deck). First published by William Rider & Son in 1909, it was designed under the direction of mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by artist Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The associated roman numerals were also adjusted to match their natural ordering upon the paths.