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Online Tarot Card
Tarot Meaning and Reading Online
The Tarot is a deck of cards that originated over 500 years ago in northern Italy. Although the Tarot was first used in a
game called Triumphs (a game similar to bridge) it was quickly adopted as a tool for divination, and popularized by occult societies such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The early Tarot symbolism was deeply rooted in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, but over the centuries it has grown to incorporate everything from Astrology and Kabbalah to Runes (which predate the Tarot by 1000 years) and the I Ching (which predates the Tarot by 2500 years). Today, the Tarot is far and away the most popular tool for spiritual introspection in the West.
Centuries after the development of the Tarot, followers of the occult particularly in France and England perceived mystical and magical meaning in the symbolism of the cards. Their fascination led to the decks becoming a 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
Online Tarot Card
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