Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. Exceedingly Popular Playing Cards
The Uses of Tarot Cards Tarot cards may seem a lot more familiar when you understand what they were originally used for: playing cards. Though playing cards were brought into Europe during the late 14th century, the first reports of Tarot cards themselves are around 1430 to 1450. The use of Tarot cards to do fortune telling became more common around the 16th century, but this practice (known as Tarology) quickly were what Tarot cards were almost exclusively associated with, a trend that continues today. While card games have fallen out of popularity, the symbolism that is associated with Tarot has remained. Breaking Down the Deck .There are many decks that we can look at when studying Tarot, but I find the best deck to start with is the Rider-Waite deck, one of the most popular and most recognized today. This deck has 78 cards total: 22 Major Arcana cards and 55 Minor Arcana cards (which is further split into Court Cards and Pip Cards). The Major Arcana are what Tarot cards are most well known for, including cards like The Lovers, The Star, and Death. The Minor Arcana is what has been adapted into modern playing cards: the Court Cards are face cards and the Pip Cards are the suit-only cards.
Suits, Before and After Just like a set of modern playing cards, Tarot cards also have suits. These suits are associated with particular traits, with the modern suits evolving from the Tarot card suits. When looking at the symbology of Tarot cards, learning the suits can be especially useful for understanding the role of different cards, as well as the the relation between cards. Each suit is associated with an element, a rank in the medieval hierarchy, and an aspect of an individual's personality.
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