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Tarot Mythology
The Empress. The Hanged Man. The Chariot. Judgment. With their centuries-old iconography blending a mix of ancient symbols, religious allegories, and historic events, tarot cards can seem purposefully opaque. To outsiders and skeptics, occult practices like card reading have little relevance in our modern world. But a closer look at these miniature masterpieces reveals that the power of these cards isn’t endowed from some mystical source—it comes from the ability of their small, static images to illuminate our most complex dilemmas and desires. Contrary to what the uninitiated might think, the meaning of divination cards changes over time, shaped by each era’s culture and the needs of individual users. This is partly why these decks can be so puzzling to outsiders, as most of them reference allegories or events familiar to people many centuries ago. Caitlín Matthews, who teaches courses on cartomancy, or divination with cards, says that before the 18th century, the imagery on these cards was accessible to a much broader population. But in contrast to these
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Where Do Tarot Cards Come From? The sniper who's terrorizing Greater Washington, D.C., left a taunting tarot card —inscribed "Dear Policeman, I am God"—near the scene of one shooting. Where do tarot cards come from? Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers. According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images—from the Fool to Death—were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades. The game of Continue »


	It Happened To Me It all boils down to the question, “So, what do you do?” The response is either: the whole truth, a half-truth like mentioning the coaching but not the tarot part, or a complete deflection of the question like, “I need to refill my drink!” If I engage in fully answering the question it invariably becomes, “So how did you fall into that?” From there I have to quickly decide whether to continue down the path of questioning which usually ends by pulling out my tarot deck, or, letting that person know I am off the clock, no hard feelings, right? No matter what the reaction, I am a conversation starter. Even when I don’t want attention, the mere mention that I am a professional tarot reader will gain an audience. So pour yourself a glass a wine, get comfortable and pull out your decks if you got’em! For me, it started innocently enough: I was one of those precociously intuitive kids. I remember offering a friend’s Dad marriage advice at 11. I picked up palm reading at 12, gazing into the grubby hands of friends Continue »


I Went To A Tarot Reader Here at FiveThirtyEight, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to predict stuff. The science of prediction is pretty hard to get right consistently. But in keeping with the philosophy of exploring other schools of predictive thought, I decided to go to one of the classic sources of predictions – a tarot card reader – to find out what she had to say about the future, and how those predictions would stack up against rigorous statistical analysis. First, let me come clean: Getting your tarot cards read is really, really fun. My reader, who goes by Angela Lucy, has been practicing for more than 20 years. Her place of business is a kitchen table in an apartment near Union Square in Manhattan. I paid via PayPal half an hour before my reading; Lucy operates by appointment only. According to her business card, the readings are "for entertainment purposes only" – a state law, designed Continue »



The Fountain Tarot Deck For those of us who swear by the intuition of tarot, we"ve gotten wind of a deck that has blown us away. On September 10th, Roost Books announced via Instagram the arrival of The Fountain Tarot, which might just be the tarot deck of our dreams. Written, illustrated, and created by Jason Gruhl, Jonathan Saiz, and Andi Todaro, The Fountain Tarot deck and guidebook preserves the rich history of the tarot practice while also "re-envisioning s for our contemporary lives," Jess Townsend from Roost Books told HelloGiggles. The three creators of The Fountain Tarot spent a year in Todos Santos, Mexico, perfecting their collaboration deck and extensively researching the origins and previous adaptations of tarot. The team stripped the practice down to the bare bones and built their deck based on tarot’s original "essence." Gruhl was at the spiritual helm of the project and authored *Continue »*