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Tarot Reading The History Of The Cards

The fascinating art of Tarot reading has an amazing history. But, where did Tarot cards originate? Some speculate that Tarot may have originated in Egypt but there is no concrete evidence to support these claims.

However, in Europe the standard playing cards to move to the Mamelukes in Egypt at the end of the 14th century, they are stretching to say he invented the tarot card game, or are associated with the divinatory practices. In fact, our modern tarot ancient Greece we know today is a collection of images and, Romania, Norway, India, Egypt, Italy, from a symbol of cultural diversity in France.

Some people speculate that Pythagoras, one of the first gurus of modern day esoteric philosophy and practices, may have invented the precursors to Tarot through his work with mathematics, music, tetractys, and Numerology.

According to the detailed historical data available to today's tarot cards originated in northern Italy. The oldest surviving tarot cards, the Visconti-Sforza tarot deck, were in the middle of the 15th Century created. This sixty-six card on the

These cards were designed to be played as a trick based card playing game with trumps called Tarrochi. This game spread slowly across Italy and mostly in the upper stratum of society. This was because pre-printing press hand manufactured cards were quite expensive and news traveled fairly slowly in those days.

It seems that in 1450 there was an Italian jubilee year with many festivals and pilgrims who brought the game in the eyes of the public on a broad front. Moreover, in 1460 the introduction of Gutenberg's printing press to Italy made possible mass production of books and maps. Called from this harmless game Tarrochi (Tarrock in the German-Austrian or tarot in France) it was not long before these cards was supported by the widespread use of the printing press, a medium for divination and board games tricks.

From Italy tarot cards migrated into Southern France and the “Tarot de Marseilles” is one of the most famous decks from that country originating around 1499 when France conquered northern Italy. The English Tarot deck is often called the Rider-Waite deck and is the one we are most familiar with in the modern day English speaking countries. It consists of 78 cards 56 minor arcana and 22 major arcana or what would have been the trump cards in the game of Tarrochi. It was created in 1909 by artist Pamela Colman Smith and Arthur Edward Waite. It was published by the Rider company and now is copyrighted by U.S. Games.

Also, it is surprising under the condemnation of tarot cards from the very conception, is the religious authorities had at the time. They have a face that is a form of idolatry, especially the Roman Catholic Church.

Interestingly, science is a very merciful religion other than the Tarot deck. For example, Jung and Freud subscription Tarot faith. Carl Jung's symbolic meaning to a high degree of Tarot cards and ink attributable to the type of property card. These allow psychologists to form a typical feature of a person's evaluation of inference. The card features to help determine the representative symbol of the unconscious and pre-symbolic attributes will affect how they view themselves, others and their environment.

However, most modern psychologists frown on the notion of using Tarot cards in therapeutic settings for archetypal analysis. These methods of archetypal analysis are relegated to the fringes of the clinical practices.

Unearthing the true origin of Tarot cards can not occur with empirical certainty. But one thing is sure for certain divining the aid of the occult are to establish, on through the ages as a mystical tool, in order to pursue answers to questions about past, present and future events.

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