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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:03 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:09 pm
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Some time in the first half of the fifteenth century, somewhere in northern Italy, someone created the first set of tarot cards. Like the playing cards of the time, the tarot deck included number cards (1 through 10) in four suits, and court cards page, knight, and king. But the tarot deck had more: a queen was added to each of the courts, and 22 special cards, not belonging to any suit, were added. These special cards bore symbolic pictures, with such subjects as the Emperor, the Pope, The Wheel of Fortune, Death, the Devil, and the Moon.
The tarot cards were used to play a new type of card game, similar to bridge, but with 21 of the special cards serving as permanent trumps, which could be played regardless of what suit was led, and outranked all the ordinary cards. This Game of Triumphs, as it was called, became extraordinarily popular, particularly among the upper classes, and spread through northern Italy and eastern France. As the game spread to new locales, changes were often made in the pictures, and also in the ranking of the trumps, which usually bore no numbers. In time, tarot spread south to Sicily and north to Austria, Germany, and the low countries.
Centuries later, devotees of the occult arts in France and England encountered the tarot and saw mystical and magical meaning in the enigmatic symbolism of the cards. Their fascination with the cards led to the reputation tarot presently has as a divination tool and occult artifact.
Tarot today is a very popular form of Divination. People all over the world now use the cards for divination. Cards come in all different languages and many different decks.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:49 pm
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The Minor Arcana are just like a deck of plsying cards. Except they have one extra card per suite. There arel 4 suites. 2-10 and the Court Cards, like the king, Queen, Page, and knight. These two groups of cards make up the minor Arcana.
The minor arcana represent events and such created by humans. They deal with our spiritual life, social life, Financial life, and our hopes, dreams and desires. In general we have control over these cards. With every choice we make they change, We are everchanging and as such usually every reading can change everytime you do it. Life changes daily and these cards show most if not all of it.
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Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:18 am
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Suite's Element= Fire
Suite's Astrological Signs= Aries, Leo and Sagittarius
Keywords to describe the suite as a whole= Enterprise, Growth.
Key Image= like waving a magic wand. xD
This suite of Tarot can be somethimes called many different things. I will call it Wands when discussing it as it is the most common. The one sure fire way to tell if your cards have different suites than the ones listed is by the element the suite represents. Each 4 suites have a specific element assigned to them with each deck. The suite of Wands is associated with the fire element. There are also astrological signs associated with each Deck. The signs for this suite are Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.
Wands represent our dive into the work world, our ambition, growth, and development. These are the Cards of our enthusiasm for life and our enthusiasm for living it. Wands were originally called staffs in many older Tarot decks. However as times change so does the Tarot. Staffs use to be used to carry fires at night. Wands brought light into the darkness to brighten the way. Also back then were also seen as a symbol or authority and personal power.
Usually the wands imagery shows a stick of wood with a little twigs on the side with leaves and such. This is because wands represent growth, the growing of plants and other greenery is the most potent image of growth as it is one that humans can really see the change in. The imagery per card is hard to figure out. The wands in the decks are used as weapons, sticks, holding things up, force and many other things. It takes time to figure out this suite as the uses of it very so much per card. Wands are associated with the world of creation and ideas and each card does show that.
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:30 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:41 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:57 am
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