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Different Spreads In Tarot
Tarot Meaning and Reading Online
Some time in the first half of the fifteenth century, somewhere in northern Italy, someone created the first set of tarot
cards. Like the playing cards of the time, the tarot deck included number cards (1 through 10) in four suits, and court cards page, knight, and king. But the tarot deck had more: a queen was added to each of the courts, and 22 special cards, not belonging to any suit, were added. These special cards bore symbolic pictures, with such subjects as the Emperor, the Pope, The Wheel of Fortune, Death, the Devil, and the Moon.
Many centuries later, followers of occult leanings saw mystical and magical symbolism in the cards and hence they became a very powerful tool for divination.
Reading Tarot Cards
A tarot deck consists of 78 cards...The Major Arcana or the Greater Secrets, number 22 and 56 of The Minor Arcana. some practitioners of tarot use only the Major Arcana..22 cards..as it is believed that these cards contain greater mysteries and spriritual depth.
The Minor Arcana closely resemble the cards of a traditional deck of playing cards, with four suits: Cups(chalices),
Pentacles (coins or discs), Wands (Staves) and Swords.
Each tarot suit has the cards numbered 1 to 10 as in the common playing deck and a page (jack), queen and king. However tarot cards also have a knight and that was not copied into the standard deck. One thought is that the knight was excluded because of the destruction of the Knights Templar and another theory is that the Knights have indeed survived although are incognito and underground.
The one card of the Major Arcana which shows up in the standard deck of cards is The Fool which is the Joker in the modern deck.
Lady Ellen - author of this website, is also the author of "The Persephane Pendrake Chronicles"...Which answers the question..What To Read After Harry Potter?
The books are filled with mythology, tarot, fantasy and all kinds of magic from Arthurian, Egyptian, Asian, Native American and European..what fun!
The first of nine books "Persephane Pendrake and the Cimaruta" is available at her publisher Booklocker.com and Amazon Visit her book site at www.lady-ellen.com... Lady Ellen
Different Spreads In Tarot
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