TAROT - OSWALD WIRTH AND LEVI - THE CHARIOT Two designs for the Tarot card (both made in the last decades of the 19th century) to show the influence which the popular occultist, Eliphas Levi, had on the design of the Oswald Wirth Tarot deck. [Left] the Chariot card, as designed by Oswald Wirth - virtually every element, from the stars on the canopy, the four uprights of the charot, the crown and armour of the charioteer, the emblems on the front of the chariot, the two sphinxes pulling the chariot, are derived from the earlier design proposed by Levi [right]. Although Levi left a detailed description of each of the 22 picture cards of the Tarot, this seems to have been the only pictorial version of a card that he published. Many of the elements in the Levi Tarot found their way into the so-called Rider-Waite deck, by way of Oswald Wirth: notably, the replacement of the two horses by sphinxes, the Egyptian elements in the design, and the three pentacles in the headdress of the charioteer. The card design used here is from the 1896 English version of Levi's Transcendental Magic. Its Doctrine and Ritual.