Tarot Card
History
The oldest surviving tarot cards can
be traced back to Northern Italy in 1440.
These cards were hand-painted and originally
used for a game known as ‘The Game
of Triumphs’ that was popular with
the nobles. The game spread through northern
Italy and eastern France and later to
Sicily, Austria, Germany, and the low-countries.
Psychics and Tarot
Centuries later, the cards reemerged
as a tool for divination. Devotees of
the occult arts in France and England
recognized the mystical and magical meaning
in the symbolism of the cards. Psychics
began to use the Tarot as a channel from
which they drew their readings.
While the designs of the cards have changed
over the years their meanings remain the
same. The cards have since been revised
and redesigned by artists and card makers
to reflect the cultures of the various
locales in which they were used.
Tarot and Kabbalah
During the nineteenth century, the
famous occultist known as Eliphas Lévi
developed a correlation between the Tarot
and the Hebrew system of mysticism: Kabbalah.
It has since been associated with many
magical systems and religions known to
mankind. Lévi was responsible for
linking the 22 cards of the Major Arcana
to the Hebrew alphabet.
Today’s Tarot
English Christian occult philosopher
Arthur Edward Waite’s rectified
deck of cards designed by Pamela Coleman
Waite are the most popular cards currently
in distribution. Their "rectified"
deck of 78 cards has become the most widely
used instrument of divination for psychics
of this century.
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