Tarot card reading
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. French-suited playing cards can also be used; as can any card system with suits assigned to identifiable elements (e.g., air, earth, fire, water).
devised a method of tarot divination in 1783,
wrote a cartomantic treatise of tarot as the Book of Thoth,
created the first society for tarot cartomancy, the Société littéraire des associés libres des interprètes du livre de Thot.
created the first corrected tarot (supposedly fixing errors that resulted from misinterpretation and corruption through the mists of antiquity), The Grand Etteilla deck
created the first Egyptian tarot to be used exclusively for tarot cartomancy, and
published, under the imprint of his society, the Dictionnaire synonimique du Livre de Thot, a book that "systematically tabulated all the possible meanings which each card could bear, when upright and reversed."
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(the 56 suit cards)
Minor Arcana
(the 22 trumps)
Major Arcana
Psychic reading
Rider–Waite tarot deck
Cartomancy
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Case, Paul Foster (1947). The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages. New York: Macoy Publishing Company.
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Le monde primitif
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Decker, Ronald; Depaulis, Thierry; Dummett, Michael (1996). A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
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Le tarot des Bohémiens
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