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#TITLE#.. Tarot Spreads .#/TITLE#
#CONTENT#.. The origins and meanings of tarot cards are mysterious..the images being very powerful and evoke many theories. It is
thought to have developed from the Romany and/or the Knights Templar. There is even some idea that the tarot came from Egyptian origin and are perhaps remnants of the ancient Book of Thoth, the magic book authored by the god. The book was supposedly redesigned as cards...making it both portable and easy to hide. French theologian, Antoine Court de Gebelin, author or one of the earliest works on tarot, published in Paris around 1775 to 1784, suggests that the Major Arcana comes from the Egyptian Book of Thoth saved from the ruins of a burning temple. The book was then rescued and brought to Europe by traveling Gypsies.
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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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