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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.
The Taixuanjing is a divination guide composed by the Confucian writer Yang Xiong (53 BCE – 18 CE) in the decade prior to the fall of the Western Han dynasty. The first draft of this work was completed in 2 BCE; during the Jin dynasty, an otherwise unknown person named Fan Wang (范望) salvaged the text and wrote a commentary on it, from which our text survives today.
The I Ching or Yijing (Chinese: 易經, Mandarin: [î tɕíŋ] ⓘ), usually translated Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. The I Ching was originally a divination manual in the Western Zhou period (1000–750 BC).
The three most common decks used in esoteric tarot are the Tarot of Marseilles (a playing card pack), the Rider–Waite Tarot, and the Thoth Tarot. [ 37 ] Aleister Crowley , who devised the Thoth deck along with Lady Frieda Harris , stated of the tarot: "The origin of this pack of cards is very obscure.
Guicang (歸藏, "Return to the Hidden") is a divination text dating to the Zhou dynasty, which was once circulated alongside the I Ching. The text of Guicang was rediscovered in a rural bog in 1993; it had been lost for over two thousand years. [1] Guicang contains the sixty-four hexagrams and stories relating to each of them.
The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom: A Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook, Element, 2000; King Arthur's Raid on the Underworld: The Oldest Grail Quest, Gothic Image, 2008 (paintings by Meg Falconer) The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures, Harper Element, 2009; StoryWorld, Templar, 2009; The Steampunk Tarot: Gods of the Machine, Connections, 2012
Japanese tarot cards are created by professional artists, advertisers, and fans of tarot. One tarot card collector claimed to have accumulated more than 1,500 Japan-made decks of tarot cards. Japanese tarot cards fall into diverse categories such as: Inspiration Tarot (reikan tarotto); I-Ching Tarot (ekisen tarotto);
They include some of the earliest attested manuscripts of existing texts (such as the I Ching), two copies of the Tao Te Ching, a copy of Zhan Guo Ce, works by Gan De and Shi Shen, and previously unknown medical texts such as Wushi'er Bingfang (Prescriptions for Fifty-Two Ailments). [1] Scholars arranged them into 28 types of silk books.