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Card player with Austrian tarot cards (Industrie und Glück pattern) Trumps of the Tarot de Marseilles, a standard 18th-century playing card pack, later also used for divination Tarot ( / ˈ t ær oʊ / , first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks ) is a pack of playing cards , used from at least the mid-15th century in various ...
The usual tarot rules or play and card point values applied. The winner was the one with the most points in tricks and was paid an amount by the losers based on the difference in scores. [13] Tarot card games are played with decks having four ordinary suits, [14] and one additional, longer suit of tarots, which are always trumps.
“A tarot reader shuffles the cards, then lays them out in a pattern known as a ‘spread,’” Theresa Reed (AKA The Tarot Lady), tarot expert and author with over 40 years of experience in ...
Le Fou (The Fool) from a Cartes de Suisse pack. The “Cartes de Suisses” is a name sometimes given to an 18th-century standard pattern of Tarot playing cards that were initially produced in Rouen, and later in the Austrian Netherlands as well as in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, [1] now both part of Belgium.
Published in 1910, the 78 cards of the “Waite-Smith” deck have become synonymous with tarot. A new book delves into their history, importance and popularity.
A Brief History. Tarot’s true origin remains unknown, but the earliest cards can be traced back to 15th-century Italy. Originally crafted for playing card games, tarot decks gradually evolved to ...
Tarot historian Michael Dummett similarly critiqued occultist uses throughout his various works, remarking that "the history of the esoteric use of Tarot cards is an oscillation between the two poles of vulgar fortune telling and high magic; though the fence between them may have collapsed in places, the story cannot be understood if we fail to ...
In the 2007 book "The History of the Tarot", scholar Giordano Berti proposes that the deck was produced between 1442 and 1447, because the denari (coin) cards bear the recto and verso of the golden florin coined by F. M. Visconti in 1442 and withdrawn from circulation at his death, in 1447.