One form of fortune telling was the use of tarot cards. Picturing psychics using these tarot cards was an easy vision to conjure up but the problem with this was that fortune tellers didn’t use tarot cards until the 20th century.
Tarot cards of the current type go back to 15th century Italy and a game called “triumphs,” which is tarots in French. Two sets of cards, one containing 22 picture cards and another set of cards with 56 cards with pictures. The major arcana is the 22 card set and the minor arcana is the 56 card set. The major arcana has such pictures as the Fool, the Devil, Temperance, the Hermit, the Sun, the Lovers, the Hanged Man, and Death while the minor arcana has the kings, or lords, queens, or ladies, knights and knaves, or pages or servants, of sticks or wands, cudgels or batons, swords, cups and coins.
The best psychics use to be the ones seekers would go to have their “cards” read but now anyone can purchase a deck of tarot cards for less than $10 and learn to read their own tarot cards. But, to just pick up a deck of tarot cards and read them is not practical if you don’t know what each card means. The tarot is a strong tool to blend your inner and outer self making it possible to live your life more fulfillingly and uncover your personal growth and insight.
Understanding one’s self and tapping into your inner resources does not require psychic abilities in order to use the tarot cards. Nuturing your natural self and your willingness to honor your natural self are the most important things to using the tarot cards successfully. Learning tarot cards is a self paced exercise and there are numerous lessons on the internet and also in books.
The primary thing needed for learning is a deck of tarot cards. The Rider-Waite deck of tarot cards is widely used as it has pictures on every card and aids in learning. Thus the quest begins for the one who is interested in learning how to read the tarot cards, which is regarded as a tool for solutions to the problems we have. At a tarot reading there is the seeker and the tarot reader, although sometimes one person is both the seeker and psychic tarot reader. The seeker shuffles the cards and cuts the deck and then the psychic tarot reader lays the chosen cards in a pattern, otherwise known as the spread. Each position in a spread has a definition and so does each card. So then the psychic reader puts both of these together and helps to find an outcome to the seekers question.
Years ago it was said that the tarot cards had to be kept in a silk cloth and no one could touch them except the psychic and if the silk cloth wasn’t put around them when the reading was done, the cards would loose their power to predict the future. Some continue with this tradition.
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