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#TITLE#.. Learning To Read Tarot Cards .#/TITLE#
#CONTENT#.. Tarot cards, developed in northern Italy, some 500 years ago, were used to play a new type of card game, similar to bridge, but with 21 of the special cards serving as permanent trumps, which could be played regardless of what suit was led, and outranked all the ordinary cards. This Game of Triumphs, as it was called, became extraordinarily popular, particularly among the upper classes, and spread through northern Italy and eastern France. As the game spread to new locales, changes were often made in the pictures, and also in the ranking of the trumps, which usually bore no numbers. In time, tarot spread south to Sicily and north to Austria, Germany, and the low countries.
Centuries later, devotees of the occult arts in France and England encountered the tarot and saw mystical and magical meaning in the enigmatic symbolism of the cards. Their fascination with the cards led to the reputation tarot presently has as a divination tool and occult artifact.
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#CONTENT#..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..#/CONTENT#
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