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About Tarots
Tarot Cards are powerful tools for those with the ability
to interpret the cards.
Tarot cards are an ancient form of divination, whose
origins are shrouded by the thick fog of time. Tarot
was used during Renaissance in Italy as a popular game,
and was rediscovered by occult scholars in the 18th
century, and was connected to other forms of occultism.
Originally, the cards were used in game, but eventually
came to be used as a tool for divination. Perhaps one
of the earliest and most influential practitioners of
tarot was the French occultist Jean-Baptiste Alliette
(1738-1791), who assigned divinatory meanings to each
card for upright and reverse orientations, as well as
spreads.
What are Tarot cards?
It is an oracle that can answer questions about the
past, the present and of course the future. It is a
tool for guidance and for self-discovery and to get
in touch with one's own intuition. Tarot cards are an
intermediary between the conscious and the unconscious
mind. One thing they are not is a tool for black magic.
Essentially, Tarot is simply a set of symbols printed
on a pack of 78 cards. These cards are shuffled and
dealt, just as ordinary playing cards. The Tarot has
four suits with 10 numbered cards and four court cards
in each suit. In most Tarot decks, there are also 22
numbered Major Arcana. While the Major Arcana are the
more powerful, since they deal with major life changes
and philosophies of life, the Minor Arcana are often
more commonly used in readings because they refer to
the mundane events most questioners ask about. They
are divided into four suits.
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