Born this Day: February 16, 1878 Pamela Colman Smith
Date of Death: September 18, 1951
Zodiac Sun Sign: Aquarius
Contribution to the Healing Community: Designer/Illustrator of the Rider Waite-Smith Deck.
Occultist Arthur Edward Waite commissioned artist Pamela Colman Smith (AKA "Pixie") to illustrate the 78 cards in the popular esoteric card deck best known today as the Rider-Waite Tarot. Her artwork is thought to possibly be inspired by the 15th century Sola Busca Tarot. Pixie attended the Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn in 1893 while in her teens. Pixie was also a published author and storyteller.
Born this Day: February 16, 1802 Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
Date of Death: January 16, 1866
Zodiac Sun Sign: Aquarius
Contribution to the Healing Community: Clairvoyant, Researcher
American born, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, had an investigative nature and and inventive mind. He worked on his theory that illness could be cured through the mind (mental healing). He called his theory "the Truth." He was convinced that dis-ease was an error of the mind... or not real. He is possibly the first documented medical intuitives.
