The Little History of Tarot Cards
The Tarot is a set of cards that was originally invented in Europe in the late fifteenth century to play a selection of card games such as French Tarot and Italian Tarrochini amongst others. It was only in the late eighteenth century that the cards came to be used by mystics as a map to spirituality and a guild to mental pathways.
The tarot deck has four suits much like the more common decks of playing cards. Each suit has what are known as pip cards that run from ace to ten and four face cards making the total of each suit to be fourteen cards. The tarot deck differentiates itself by containing a trump suit of twenty one cards and a single card called the Fool. The Fool has many uses depending on the game, most often than not they are either used as the top trump or used to not follow a suit.
The occult have long since had a history of using and incorporating Tarot Cards into their beliefs. They call the trump cards and the Fool card 'The Major Arcana' and the pip cards 'The Minor Arcana'. Some occult writers have traced the Tarot Deck back to ancient Egypt but these reports are unproven and there have been no recorded use of Tarot Cards for mystical purposes before the eighteenth century.
One of the first people to popularise the use of Tarot 'Divination' was a Frenchman called Etteilla and was known for being the first person to make a living from Tarot reading. Etteilla was also the first person to create his own revised deck of Tarot cards solely for the use of Spiritual readings.
Tarot reading revolves around the idea that the cards can help an individual to gain an insight into the future of another individual. It is thought that the cards are guided by a spiritual force such as Gaia and that the cards can help an individual tap into their collective unconsciousness.
There have been many cultural and historical changes related to the Tarot Deck and it is generally accepted that each reader should interpret the cards in their own way based on the common meanings of each card.
The Tarot is a set of cards that was originally invented in Europe in the late fifteenth century to play a selection of card games such as French Tarot and Italian Tarrochini amongst others. It was only in the late eighteenth century that the cards came to be used by mystics as a map to spirituality and a guild to mental pathways.
The tarot deck has four suits much like the more common decks of playing cards. Each suit has what are known as pip cards that run from ace to ten and four face cards making the total of each suit to be fourteen cards. The tarot deck differentiates itself by containing a trump suit of twenty one cards and a single card called the Fool. The Fool has many uses depending on the game, most often than not they are either used as the top trump or used to not follow a suit.
The occult have long since had a history of using and incorporating Tarot Cards into their beliefs. They call the trump cards and the Fool card 'The Major Arcana' and the pip cards 'The Minor Arcana'. Some occult writers have traced the Tarot Deck back to ancient Egypt but these reports are unproven and there have been no recorded use of Tarot Cards for mystical purposes before the eighteenth century.
One of the first people to popularise the use of Tarot 'Divination' was a Frenchman called Etteilla and was known for being the first person to make a living from Tarot reading. Etteilla was also the first person to create his own revised deck of Tarot cards solely for the use of Spiritual readings.
Tarot reading revolves around the idea that the cards can help an individual to gain an insight into the future of another individual. It is thought that the cards are guided by a spiritual force such as Gaia and that the cards can help an individual tap into their collective unconsciousness.
There have been many cultural and historical changes related to the Tarot Deck and it is generally accepted that each reader should interpret the cards in their own way based on the common meanings of each card.
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