Tarot cards have been around for more than 500 years, and dozens of designs and styles are available. Even with so many decks out there, you can create a one-of-a-kind set by designing your own tarot cards. more »
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Tarot cards have been around for more than 500 years, and dozens of designs and styles are available. Even with so many decks out there, you can create a one-of-a-kind set by designing your own tarot cards. more »
A Tarot card spread is a configuration of cards that is designed to address specific issues brought by seeker. There are many Tarot spreads and most Tarot decks come with suggestions of spreads and their value to Tarot interpretation. A Tarot spread can have only a few cards or can have more than 30 cards. The number of cards in a... more »
Tarot cards originated in Italy during the 14th century, when cards featuring powerful imagery and symbols were added to the four suits of the standard deck of cards. By the 18th century, the cards were widely accepted and used as divinatory tools. Today, the tarot remains one of the most popular divination tools. Best of all, they... more »
The Rider-Waite deck is the most well-known Tarot deck. It is the preferred starter deck for beginning Tarot readers, in particular for the attractive pictures and the depth of symbolic meaning to each card. Most modern Tarot decks owe their origins to the Rider-Waite deck. The deck was created in 1909 and uses archaic and... more »
There are no hard and true places or dates related to when and where fortune telling originated. Anthropologists have found that whenever early people gathered into communities, all over the world, they had shamans with uniquely individual forms of divination. more »
Tarot cards, originally called The Game of Triumphs, was first created in the 15th century....
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You can use tarot cards for guidance, meditation and fun. But you don't have to spend a lot of money to get a tarot deck that works for you. You... more »
A Jungian tarot deck reading is based in the Jungian psychology and philosophy of Carl Jung. Jung was a psychiatrist who believed in archetypes,... more »
Many years ago, reading Tarot cards was the domain of a specialized group of people, including Gypsies, fortune tellers and scam artists. Now,... more »
The art of reading tarot cards is hundreds of years old. The idea of mysticism and magic that they evoke can appeal to both the skeptic and the... more »
Perhaps you've been looking for the perfect Tarot deck, and just haven't had any luck finding it. Maybe every deck you see just fails to speak to... more »
The tarot (first known as tarocchi, also tarock and similar names), , is a pack of cards (most commonly numbering seventy-eight), used from the mid fifteenth century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Italian Tarocchini and French Tarot. From the late 18th century until the present time the Tarot has also found use by mystics and occultists in efforts at divination or as a map of mental and spiritual pathways.
The tarot has four suits corresponding to the suits of conventional playing cards. Each of these suits has pip cards numbering from ace to ten and four face cards for a total of fourteen cards. In addition, the tarot is distinguished by a separate 21-card trump suit and a single card known as the Fool. Depending on the game, the Fool may act as the top trump or may be played to avoid following suit."DummettGame">
Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and PantagruelFrançois Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, ch. 22, "Les Jeux de Gargantua"; this is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.
Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play card games.
In English-speaking countries, where these games are largely unknown, Tarot cards are now used primarily for divinatory purposes."DummettGame" /> Huson, Paul, (2004) Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage, Vermont: Destiny Books, ISBN 0-89281-190-0
Occultists call the trump cards and the Fool "the major arcana" while the ten pip and four court cards in each suit are called minor arcana. The cards are traced by some occult writers to ancient Egypt or the Kabbalah but there is no documented evidence of such origins or of the usage of tarot for divination before the eighteenth century."DummettGame"/>
Etymology
The English and French word tarot derives from the Italian tarocchi, which has no known origin or etymology. One theory relates the name "tarot" t read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot
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