Thanks to trade between Northern Africa and Europe, bits of each culture went into creating tarot. But the Christian and European symbolism is what stuck. By the late 18th century, occult circles started using tarot as a form of divination — a way to contact angels and demons and perform ceremonial magic. There is no shortage of decks out there, but to narrow it down, pick one of the three main systems to follow. Rider-Waite-Smith is the most common and good for beginners.
Tarot de Marseilles is the oldest, out of Italy, and lastly, Thoth and Golden Dawn centers around the occult. Ignore the myth that have to be gifted your first deck and buy one for yourself. The most important thing is to find a deck with art that speaks to you.
Just browse the below and see if anything catches your eye. This is the most commonly known tarot deck. Dore works with these images a lot, which is why she sticks to this deck. The coloring of the art is slightly different, which Wen likes.
Mandybur is also a fan of this Elemental Tarot deck, which came out earlier this year. Artist Caroline Smith and her astrologer husband developed these cards. The description says this deck is meant to be a distillation of the many perceptions of tarot. As the name suggests, the artwork is geared toward Black people and features prominent members of the community as well as celebrities ranging from Malcolm X to Tupac to Erykah Badu and Andre By the midth century, the mystical applications for cards had spread from Italy to other parts of Europe.
In reality, tarot cards predated the presence of Gypsies in Europe, who actually came from Asia rather than Africa. This type of card is known as the significator and typically stands in for the individual having their fortune read. A hand-colored set of tarot cards produced by F. Gumppenberg, circa Etteilla eventually switched to using a traditional tarot deck, which he claimed held secret wisdom passed down from ancient Egypt.
Though hieroglyphics had not yet been deciphered the Rosetta Stone was rediscovered in , many European intellectuals in the late 18th century believed the religion and writings of ancient Egypt held major insights into human existence.
By linking tarot imagery to Egyptian mysticism, they gave the cards greater credibility. Drawing on these theories, Etteilla published his own deck in —one of the first designed explicitly as a divination tool and eventually referred to as the Egyptian tarot.
Mother well. Come to hospital. I read cards in a very similar way—starting from a few general keywords and making sense of them by filling in the words that are missing. Mercury is in retrograde and da da da. Mertz in based on a design circa Matthews has authored several books on divinatory cards, and her latest is The Com plete Lenormand Oracle Cards Handbook.
Oracle decks like the Lenormand tend to rely on more direct visual language than traditional tarot cards. The images are generally more specific, simpler, and less universal, keeping the conversation more straightforward. But if you went beyond that, it was the cross, which was not so good. It was like the game Snakes and Ladders. This Lenormand-style oracle deck shows a mixture of playing card and fortune-telling illustrations, circa They became really popular after the Napoleonic Wars when everyone settled down and became terribly bourgeois.
British occultist Arthur Waite was a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn — and apparently a longtime nemesis of Aleister Crowley , who was also involved in the group and its various offshoots. Waite got together with artist Pamela Colman Smith , also a Golden Dawn member, and created the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which was first published in At Waite's suggestion, Smith used the Sola Busca artwork for inspiration, and there are many similarities in the symbolism between Sola Busca and Smith's final result.
Smith was the first artist to use characters as representative images in the lower cards. Instead of showing merely a cluster of cups, coins, wands or swords, Smith incorporated human figures into the artwork, and the result is the iconic deck that every reader knows today.
The imagery is heavy on Kabbalistic symbolism, and because of this, is typically used as the default deck in nearly all instructional books on Tarot. Now, over a hundred years since the release of the Rider-Waite deck, Tarot cards are available in a practically endless selection of designs.
In general, many of these follow the format and style of Rider-Waite, although each adapts the cards to suit their own motif. No longer just the domain of the wealthy and upper class, Tarot is available for anyone who wishes to take the time to learn it. This free six-step study guide will help you learn the basics of Tarot reading, and give you a good start on your way to becoming an accomplished reader.
Work at your own pace! Every lesson includes a Tarot exercise for you to work on before moving ahead. If you've ever thought you might like to learn the Tarot but didn't know how to get started, this study guide is designed for you! Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads.
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