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Le Bateleur from the Tarot of Marseilles |
DEFINITION: The Tarot is a deck of 78 divination cards. They consists
of 22 trump cards, 40 cards in four colours, numbered from
1-10, and four court cards in four colours, with a "knight"
card in addition to the usual "jack", "queen"
and "king" card.
THE EARLIEST TAROT CARDS
The earliest specimens of Tarot decks are of North
Italian origin and date to the mid-15th century. These were
called carte da trionfi or "cards of the triumphs".
Soon afterward, comparable decks were used in the game of
Tarocchi. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the tarot cards became
popular in occult studies and used by famous occultists such
as Etteilla and Antoine Court de Gebelin and Alistair Crowley.
The set of 78 tarot
images is considered by students of this form of Tarot to
be independent of details of any particular representation.
HOW
TAROT CARDS WORK
by Craig Hamilton-Parker
 You
don't have to have a special psychic gift to read the Tarot
Cards. It is a common misconception that tarot readers are
clairvoyants. Tarot Card reading, like palmistry, is an
interpretative skill that can be learnt from books. With
so many people jumping on the New Age bandwagon the buyer
must beware. Today finding someone who can interpret the
cards and who also has a psychic gift is very much the luck
of the draw.
TELLING THE FUTURE WITH TAROT
So how do you tell the future with cards? The psychologist
Carl Jung gave us the scientific theory of Synchronicity
that states that "Anything done at a particular moment
in time has the qualities of that moment in time" In
other words the fall of the cards is decided by past, present,
and future events.
Every Tarot card has a specific meaning represented by
the symbolism of the card's pictures. The imagery is a mixture
of good and bad auguries.
The 78 card pack is divided into two sections: the major
and minor arcana. The 22 major cards show dominant forces
in the querant life and the 56 minor cards fill in the detail.
The minor cards are subdivided into four suits representing
different qualities: Cups-emotions, Swords- troubles, Coins-
money, Wands- enterprises. (Our modern playing cards evolved
out of the Tarot. Cups became hearts, swords- spades, coins-
diamonds and wands became clubs.)
TAROT CARD PREDICTION
Depending
on which place the cards fall, and taking into account the
surrounding cards, the tarot reader can interpret the symbolism
to ascertain the past, present and future events. But remember,
no matter what the cards or 'clairvoyants' say, fortune
telling only tells us the potential future. What we make
of it is in our own hands.
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