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This category is about tarot decks used for divination or for game playing. It should not be used for individual tarot packs since they all fall into one or other category or both. For tarot decks used for playing card games, see Category:Tarot playing card decks. For tarot decks used in divination see Category:Divination Tarot decks
Christina Ricci's Cat Full of Spiders Tarot Deck and Guidebook By Christina Ricci & Minerva Siegel "Tarot for me feels like an incredible instrument to use your self-knowledge, self-reflection ...
Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby practitioners use tarot cards to purportedly gain insight into the past, present or future. They formulate a question, then draw cards to interpret them for this end. A traditional tarot deck consists of 78 cards, which can be split into two groups, the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana.
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 parts ...
Illes explains that her interest in divination began while playing with a Tarot deck at the age of six. [2] Her first Tarot deck was the Builders of the Adytum (BOTA) deck, which she described in a 2005 interview as "formidable and very esoteric," an unusual starter for a child of her age. [2] In an interview in 2016, Illes reported that she ...
The BOTA Tarot (also spelled BOTA, B.o.t.A., or BotA) was created by Paul Foster Case, founder of Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), and artist Jessie Burns Parke.Although it is based upon, and closely resembles, Arthur Edward Waite's 1909 Rider-Waite deck, [1] Case changed what he said were mistakes or "blinds" on the part of Waite.
The Hanged Man (XII) is the twelfth Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination . It depicts a pittura infamante ( pronounced [pitˈtuːra iɱfaˈmante] ), an image of a man being hanged upside-down by one ankle (the only exception being the Tarocco Siciliano , which depicts the man ...
(A piquet deck can be a 52-card deck with all of the 2s through the 6s removed. This leaves all of the 7s through the 10s, the face cards, and the aces.) In English-speaking countries, the most common form of cartomancy is generally tarot card reading. Tarot cards are almost exclusively used for this purpose in these places. [2]