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Tarot – Overview

02.20.2009 · Posted in Self Improvement Articles

The source of Tarot cards is vague and unsolved! A story of the ” real” history of the tarot relates the cards to Egyptian mysteries, Hermetic philosophy, the Kabbalah, alchemy and almost every other mystical system well-known to mankind! What we do know for sure is that cards first appeared in Italy and France in the late 14th century and that by the 15th century rich Italian patrons custom-made lovely decks to be used in a well-liked card game. Tarot cards finally became associated with the esoteric sometime in the eighteenth century. nnTarot is most generally used for foretelling. It is assumed that the cards can be applied to achieve divination into the existing problems and probable upcoming’s of the subject. nnSome tarot readers believe the cards help them tap into a collective unconscious or into their own creative, subconscious while others feel that with tarot they can commune with the Divine.nn Normally, a tarot reading involves a ‘seeker’, who shuffles the cards and cuts the deck and a ‘reader’, who describes the picked cards in a outline termed a spread. Every position in the spread has a meaning, and all card has a diversity of symbolic denotations too. The reader appreciates how to interpret these cards and combines these two meanings to shed light on the seeker’s problems. nnModern tarot decks consist of 78 cards, of which 22 have pictures representing forces, characters, virtues, and vices. The remaining cards are divided into four ‘suits’ of 14 cards each. Each suit has 10 numbered cards and 4 court cards (king, queen, knight, and page) The court cards may signify different people in a tarot reading, with each suit’s “nature” providing hints about that person’s physical and emotional characteristics.nn Nowadays’ new playing cards all changed from the suit cards.

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