Tarots for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Tarot Reading. Discover the Secret Meaning of the Cards and Its Interpretation.

By Amber Logan

Do you want to clarify in confusing situations and know what the future holds for you? Do you want to understand a new perspective about how to approach your life?

 

This book will teach any beginners and newcomers to all wonders of Tarots.

 

Learn the ancient practice of Tarots, understand the meaning and how to interpret the cards to read your future.

 

This is what you will find in this fantastic Book:

1. History of Tarot from the past to the present day
2. The Tarot's myths and misconceptions
3. The Art of Tarot reading

… and that's not all!

• How to create a deck
• The meanings of the major arcana tarot card
• The modern Tarot decks

…and much more!

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Amber Logan
• Release date: Jun 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201423704

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Introduction

Each of a series of cards used in tarot games and fortune-telling is known as a tarot. Tarot decks were created in Italy in the 1430s by adding a fifth suit of 21 specially illustrated cards called trionfi (triumphs) and an unusual card called il matto (the fool) to the original four-suited pack. (The current joker, which was introduced in the late 19th century as an unsuited jack in the game of euchre, is not related to the fool.) The pack in which these cards were introduced had Italian suitmarks and belonged to a time of card design experimentation when queens were often added to the sequence of court cards that traditionally only had a king and two male figures (see playing card). The four figures were reduced to three again in regular cards (but not in tarots) by the suppression of the queen, and in French cards, which suppressed the cavalier (knight).

Instead of a traditional suitmark, the trionfi each had their own allegorical example. Characters in mediaeval reenactments of Roman triumphal processions, analogous to floats in a contemporary festival parade, are likely depicted in such depictions. They were initially unnumbered, so remembering the order they went in was important. Whether or not trionfi were created independently of normal playing cards, their purpose was to serve as a superior suit to the other four—a suit of triumphs, or trumps—when they were added to the pack. The Venetian or Piedmontese tarot is the basis for most western tarot decks. It is made up of 78 cards split into two groups: the main arcana (also known as trumps), which has 22 cards, and the minor arcana (which has 56 cards). The main arcana cards have images that reflect different powers, characters, virtues, and vices. I through XXI are the card numbers, with the fool being unnumbered. The key arcana tarots are as follows, in order: I juggler, or magician; II papess, or female pope; III empress; IV emperor; V pope; VI lovers; VII chariot; VIII justice; IX hermit; X wheel of fortune; XI courage, or fortitude; XIII death; XIV temperance; XV devil; XVI lightning-struck tower; XVII star; XVIII moon; XIX sun; X

The minor arcana's 56 cards are grouped into four suits, each with 14 cards. The suits are as follows: clubs (wands, batons, or rods); hearts (cups); swords (spades); and coins, pentacles, or discs (coins, pentacles, or discs) (diamonds). There are four court cards in each suit—king, queen, knight, and jack—as well as ten numbered cards. The worth progression in each suit is ace to ten, then jack, knight, queen, and king, in ascending order (though the ace is sometimes assigned a high value, as in modern playing cards).

Tarot cards were first used for occult and fortune-telling purposes in France around 1780. Each tarot card has a sense for fortune-telling. The big arcana cards are about metaphysical matters and major developments in the questioner's life. Wands deal with business and work desires in the minor arcana, cups with passion, swords with strife, and coins with money and material comfort. The questioner shuffles the tarot deck, and the fortune-teller then arranges a few cards in a special sequence called a spread (either chosen at random by the questioner or dealt from the top of the shuffled deck). The context of any card changes depending on whether it's upside down, where it's in the spread, and what cards are next to it.

Chapter 1 A Quick Overview of Tarot and history!

The Tarot is, without a doubt, one of the most widely used divination instruments in the world today. Although it is not as plain as other tools such as pendulums or tea leaves, the Tarot has enchanted people for generations. Cards are now available in hundreds of diverse styles. There is a Tarot deck for almost any practitioner, regardless of his or her preferences. If you like Lord of the Rings or basketball, zombies or Jane Austen's writings, you name it, there's definitely a deck out there for you.

While methods of reading the Tarot have evolved over time, and many readers apply their own interpretations of the conventional definitions of a layout, the cards themselves have remained relatively unchanged. Let's have a look at some of the first Tarot decks, as well as the tale of how they became more than just a parlour trick.

Tarot in French and Italian

The origins of what we now call Tarot cards can be traced back to the late fourteenth century. The first playing cards, which were utilized for featuring four different suits and games, were made by artists in Europe. Wands or staves, discs or coins, cups, and swords were used in these costumes, which are close to those we wear today. After a decade or two in use, Italian artists started painting additional, highly painted cards to add to the current suits in the mid-1400s.

These trump cards, also known as triumph cards, were often painted for rich families. Parts of the aristocracy will order artists to design their own series of cards, with victory cards depicting family members and associates. For the Visconti family of Milan, which included several dukes and barons, a variety of sets were produced, some of which still exist today.

Since not everyone could afford to employ a designer to design a series of cards for them, personalized cards were only available to a select few for a few years. Playing card decks could not be mass-produced for the ordinary gamer until the printing press was invented.

Tarot as a tool for divination

The original intent of Tarot in both France and Italy was as a parlor game, not as a divinatory instrument. Divination of playing cards seems to have gained popularity in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, though it was much more straightforward at the time than the way we use Tarot today.

People began to attach unique meanings to each card by the eighteenth century, and also offered ideas for how they could be set out for divinatory purposes.

The Kabbalah and Tarot

In 1781, Antoine Court de Gebelin, a French Freemason (and former Protestant minister), published a complex study of the Tarot in which he revealed that the Tarot's symbolism was drawn from Egyptian priests' esoteric secrets. De Gebelin went on to say that this ancient magical information had been brought to Rome and exposed to the Catholic Church and the popes, who fought tooth and nail to keep this arcane knowledge hidden.

The most serious flaw in de Gebelin's thesis is that there was no historical documentation to back it up. However, affluent Europeans were quick to get on the esoteric intelligence bandwagon, and by the early nineteenth century, playing card decks such as the Marseille Tarot were being created with artwork focused on deGebelin's study.

In 1791, a French occultist named Jean-Baptiste Alliette published the first Tarot deck intended for divinatory purposes rather than as a parlour game or amusement. He had written a treatise in response to de Gebelin's work a few years before, describing how to use the Tarot for divination.

The Tarot became more synonymous with the Kabbalah and the mysteries of hermetic mysticism as occult interest in it grew. Occultism and spiritualism had become fashionable pastimes for bored upper-class families by the end of the Victorian period. Attending a house party and discovering a séance or someone reading palms or tea leaves in the corner was not unprecedented.

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