What is Tarot?

Tarot is a package of cards that are now commonly used in "narration of happiness" or divination. Card divination is called Cartomance . The deck consists of four numbered suits, such as a regular package of play cards, and twenty -two picture cards numbered one to twenty two (in some decks, zero over twenty one). Tarot package has fourteen cards in every suit, compared to thirteen for playing cards; Tarot 'Court Cards' include a page along with a knight (Knave), Queen and King.

Twenty -two picture cards, now called the main Arcana (the suitable cards are the smaller Arcana) were originally permanent trump cards. This means that in the trick game any picture card would take the trick above the card. Illustrate the universal themes of the story; A fool is a young man who sets out on a journey with a package that does not eat the shoulder. It is often displayed that he does not follow where he is going and is about to leave the edge of the cliff, while a small dog on his heels in warning. Other cards fromThey paint concepts rather than people - the round of happiness is fate or karma, and the character of the court is justice in all its forms.

suits have direct analogies to standard playing cards: SWORDS are spades, cups are hearts, pentacles (coins, discs) are diamonds and wands (statues) are clubs.

Tarot use as a Fortunes narrative tool has a relatively recent invention dating back to the end of the eighteenth century. The best known package is the so-called Rider-Waite deck. The proposals were from Arthur Waite, a member of the ORder of Golden Dawn, in cooperation with Pamela Colman Smith, so the deck is sometimes called Waite-Smith Deck. It was first released by Rider Company V1909.

There are hundreds of different tarot packages now. Palubes that reduce or remove Christian symbolism are increasingly popular and some feminist decks significantly reduce male dominant roLe found in traditional decks. Some of the decks have eliminated the suit system completely and are structured around different themes - for example, animals in an inspired deck.

Use for tarot cards are diverse. Of course, they can be used in a traditional narrative of wealth. However, they can also be used as inspiration cards, confirmation tools, or for building self -knowledge and intuition.