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Every tarot deck is different and carries a different connotation with the art, however most symbolism remains the same. The earliest, pre-cartomantic, decks bore unnamed and unnumbered pictures on their trionfi or trumps (probably because a great many of the people using them at the time were illiterate), and the order of cards was not ...
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.
Tarot cards have two distinct uses. As playing cards they were invented in Europe in the 15th century for playing games and are still used for that purpose. From the late 18th century, certain Italian-suited tarot packs were utilised for fortune telling - a practice known as tarotology - nowadays bespoke packs are produced specifically for this purpose.
Articles about specific cards (or groups of cards) from Tarot decks for divination. For tarot cards of the type used for playing card games see Category:Tarot playing card decks Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tarot cards .
In the Rider-Waite Tarot, the card portrays a young man and a woman each bearing a cup, as if presenting it to one another, while above is the Caduceus of Hermes. Three of Cups: This card typically indicates a time of merriment and celebration. The Rider-Waite Tarot depicts three Graces dancing, each maiden bearing a cup.
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Temperance, the 14th Major Arcana card, also has a foot on both land and water while pouring water, but is depicted as standing and rigid. [6] It is the first out of three cards in the Major Arcana to depict celestial imagery. Sometimes three men, representing the three Magi are depicted below the Star. [4]