Few cultural artifacts have been as distorted and misrepresentated as the Tarot. Tarot cards were first created for playing a card game and the fortune telling excercises evolved much later. There is no evidence that Tarot cards were created for any other purpose than for playing a card game. In France, Tarot is played as a classic card game where it has been called the… Continue reading

I have a long and good past using tarot, my deck is extremely accurate! I couldnt believe how much it has “guessed” right.
Anyways, is this just a game or is this really a tool like a Ouija Board or a Wand?… Continue reading

Back in the late 1700s, a Freemason by the name of Court de Gebelin was shown for the first time a tarot pack. He studied the cards and a revelation hit him: they were living remnants of ancient Egyptian religion. He was so convinced of his intuition that he wrote an entire treatise on the Tarot and its Egyptian origins (1). He did not offer much in terms of… Continue reading

the future?

Of course, I don’t know how to play the game myself, as I can really understand any trick taking games, but why are people more familiar to the occult usage of Tarot, and not how it was intended to be used, as a form of diversion?… Continue reading

Tarot cards, in the images we are most familiar with today, evolved from a kind of table game played in 15th century Italy, becaming popular throughout Europe over the next four centuries.

 To fully explore the history of Tarot, you can read the expansive book by Michael Dummet, “The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City” (Duckworth, 1980). Dummet, a British philosopher of high regard, is the… Continue reading

im just learning how to use tarot cards. i dont know which cards to use for the celtic cross card spread tarot game. okay there are cards in my deck with only pictures and no words. most of the pictures have swards. im not sure if i use these im the celtic cross game. does anyone know?… Continue reading