A History Lesson On Tarot Card Readers
by Sherrie Ellen on 09/08/13
Ever since early times people have
had a great curiosity in finding out what’s to come and have been attracted to
the means that promised to reveal to them future events of their lives. Hence
the industry of fortune telling was born along, with different kinds of ways to
unravel and foresee the future. One of the most renowned mean to tell the truth
until today is tarot card reading. It is perhaps one of the oldest one used
since the mid-15th century. Tarot is closely related to medieval Europe, gypsy
fortune tellers and the mystics and occultists. In fact these were the people
who had a great interest and fascination in foreseeing the future and defying
the laws of the world and the known to that point in time. Although there was
only a few people really believed that there were some that could see your
future and tell you what’s going to happen. The fascination of seeing your
future has swept even the most convincing and reasonable people. Tarot has a
long history and it is said that the game of playing cards has first entered
Europe in the late 14th century from the far south Egypt of today,
and it was called Mamluk Sultanate back then. Still, the very first deck of
tarot cards were manufactured somewhere between 1430 and 1450 in Milan, Ferrara
and Bologna in northern Italy. The main difference that separated the regular
deck of four-suit pack from the tarot cards were the allegorical illustrations
that were added in addition.
Although tarot cards are now known
as fortune telling cards, back when they were created they these interesting
divination decks were used as playing cards only. Only later the tarot cards
were assigned symbolic meaning and were used to tell the future. But how do
tarot card readers use these cards to tell the future? Each card has a unique
pictogram representative for a specific concept: life, live, death, danger or
happiness etc. The idea behind the tarot is that each card that is drawn by the
participant has a revelatory property because they all have divinatory meanings
to them. Not until the 18th and 19th centuries was it that the tarot cards
became associated with mysticism and magic as well as with occult rituals
carried by the secret societies of those times. Some claim that the word “tarot”
comes from the Egyptian words tar,
meaning "royal", and ro,
meaning "road", and the meaning of it was “royal road” to wisdom and
enlightenment. Still, this claim isn’t backed up by the study of ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Today there is a great variety of using the tarot cards because there are different styles of tarot decks as well as designs, used in specific ways in specific regions of Europe, and through out the world. The meaning depends on which symbols are assigned. They all mean different things and can be interpreted differently. Just like the ordinary numeric deck of cards, tarot has survived until today in so many different ways and styles, it is a clue that people still are fascinated with knowing the future.
The Traveling Psychics have excellent tarot card readers.