A Little About the Origin of Tarot Cards and Tarot Readings
Written by psychiclineadmin on February 25, 2009
The origin of Tarot cards is obscure and mysterious! One version of the “true” history of the tarot connects the cards to Egyptian mysteries, Hermetic philosophy, the Kabbalah, alchemy and just about every other mystical system 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 fifteenth century wealthy Italian patrons commissioned beautiful decks to be used in a popular card game. Tarot cards eventually became associated with the esoteric sometime in the 18th century.
Tarot is most generally applied for insight. It is believed that the cards may be applied to gain prediction into the recent difficulties and possible forthcoming’s of the subject.
A quantity of tarot readers believe the cards help them tap into a collective unconscious or into their own creative, subconscious while others believe that with tarot they are able to communicate with the Divine.
Typically, a tarot reading involves a ‘seeker’, who shuffles the cards and cuts the deck and a ‘reader’, who lays out the chosen cards in a prototype named a spread. All position in the spread has an import, and all card has a variety of symbolic imports too. The reader knows how to interpret the cards and brings together these two imports to shed light on the seeker’s difficulties.
Current tarot decks consist of 78 cards, of which 22 have pictures representing forces, characters, virtues, and vices. The residual cards are discarded into 4 ‘suits’ of 14 cards each. Each suit has 10 numbered cards and four court cards (king, queen, knight, and page). The court cards may mean different individuals in a tarot understanding , with each suit’s “nature” giving hints about that person’s physical and emotional characteristics.
Nowadays contemporary playing cards all developed from the suit cards.
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