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The Fool from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Fool is one of the 78 cards in a tarot deck. Traditionally, it is the lowest of the 22 trump cards, in tarot card reading called the 22 Major Arcana. However, in tarot card games it developed to be not one of the (then 21) trump cards but a special card, serving a unique purpose by itself.
The Major Arcana cards redesigned by Roberto Viesi. The Major Arcana are the named cards in a cartomantic tarot pack.There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (or 1 to 21, with the Fool being left unnumbered).
The Trull from an Austrian Tarock Type C pack: Pagat, Mond, Sküs The Trull from an Austrian Tarock Type A pack: Pagat, Mond, Sküs. The trull is a trio of three special trump cards used in tarock games in Austria and other countries that have a much higher card value than the other trumps.
The artwork on each deck provides a different interpretation of the energies and stories associated with each tarot card. Many decks are in conversation with the images created by Pamela Colman ...
The Rider–Waite Tarot is a widely popular deck for tarot card reading, [1] [2] first published by the Rider Company in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Oswald Wirth. Joseph Paul Oswald Wirth (5 August 1860, Brienz, Canton of Bern – 9 March 1943) was a Swiss occultist, artist and author.He studied esotericism and symbolism with Stanislas de Guaita and in 1889 he created, under the guidance of de Guaita, a cartomantic Tarot consisting only of the twenty-two Major Arcana. [1]
The tarot deck contains a fifth suit, known in gaming as the atouts or honours, which serves as a permanent trump suit in games played with the tarot deck. The suit consists of twenty-two cards, including a Fool which serves as the highest trump (in Central Europe) or excuses the players from following suit elsewhere. [10]
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