The Tarot is a deck composed by 78 cards -22 Mayor Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana – that has been used for centuries for give guidance for anyone that needs to take a decision.
Each card represents an aspect of yourself and your life in an evolutionary cycle with a beginning (the Fool) and an end (the World).
The origins of the Tarot: Who was the first in design them, where, when and with what purpose are so antiquities that remains the obscure in spite of the several books and articles that through the years had tried to clear the obscurity that involves the cards.
It’s believed that the Tarot cards are the remains of the Book of Thoth, Lord of Magic. Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom occult knowledge, and the arts and sciences, was also secretary to other gds in the Egyptian pantheon.
The Greeks gave Thoth the name Hermes Trismegitus and referred to his sacred abstruse works as Hermetic.
However, the oldest ones that can be seen and touched in a museum and they were painted by 1440 in Italy
That is the first documented Tarot deck that includes not only the four ordinary cards of the common decks but it also includes designs of the 22 cards in the Major Arcana.
Whichever is its real origin, the Tarot has occupied the human’s mind during 500 years at least and it doesn’t seem to disappear since its origins, the Tarot has touched the hearts and emotions of millions of people.
Arthur Edward Waite is credited with the renaissance of the Tarot in the Twentieth Century. He hired the artist Pamela Coleman Smith to paint a series of 78 allegorical painting described by Waite as a rectified tarot pack.
Waite's version has been widely accepted as the standard, and is by far the most popular deck of the century, rich in symbolism and easily understood due to the simple nature of the artwork.
The Tarot practice doesn't involve any approach to any occult practice, there is nothing dark or mysterious, it’s simply a help in the daily life that clarify us a certain situation, it help us to decide about several aspects of our lives and helps us to know ourselves.
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