Little Known Facts About Tarot Card Reading

Tarot card reading is a method to predict the different
possibilities of the future, to understand the past and the present or to get the
answers to our questions. Tarot cards have a very old history and it is not
something that has been introduced recently but it was practiced through ages.
The tarot deck has 78 cards. Out of 78 cards, 22 of them are Major arcana and
56 minor arcana. Each card has its own specific meaning. There are images
in tarot cards that have occult, divination and supernatural powers.
Now, the first thing that comes to our mind whenever we hear
about Tarot card reading is the quintessential depiction of it in the movies.
Generally in the movies, we can see that there is a woman who wears weird
clothes and lots of jewelry and sit with a deck of tarot cards and tells
you who you are and what will happen with you in the future. But tarot cards
don’t really tell you about that future as horoscopes do. What it does tell
you is the different possibilities of things that might happen to you depending
on your past. Tarot cards are used by different people in different ways. Some
use it for spiritual guidance, self-discovery, to know about the future, and
some use it to get the answers for their questions based on life, past, career,
relationships, etc. Tarot cards can give you an explanation of certain things
that might have happened in the past, things happening in the present and can
also tell you the different possibilities that a decision might result in the
future. It can give you a different perspective on your life. It can make you
conscious or more aware of the things happening in your life. Nowadays, you
can find many tarot card readers online. There are many readers with their own
stores as well. Â
Can tarot cards readers read for themselves?
It is interesting to know that professional tarot cards
readers never read for themselves. They do only for their clients. This is
because when someone is reading for others, they don’t have any emotional
feelings attached to them. One should not feel bad or pity when advising someone
otherwise they won’t be able to help them with clarity. But when it comes to
ourselves we generally feel critical towards the reading hence we cannot read
them properly. That’s why most tarot card readers avoid reading for themselves.
What is the History behind Tarot Cards?
There are lots of interesting facts about the history of
tarot card reading. Tarot cards first came into existence in Italy during
the 14th century. It is said that it was created for the Duke of
Milan’s family. These cards were only used as a game but later they realized
that tarot cards had supernatural powers and can be used to predict the future.
It was earlier used by the name “Tarocchiâ€. But soon these games spread over
certain European countries. It was in the 18th century that people
started realizing that it had mystical powers and can be used as divination
tools. This idea came into existence when a man Antoine Court De Gebelin wrote
a book explaining that the images in the tarot cards had powers of God and are
not meant for gaming purposes but it has importance larger than that. Sooner,
these cards became more popular and lots of books started being written on
them. During this time, it was renamed to Tarot Cards. Europeans were
fascinated by its Occult powers. And during the early 20th century
many tarot card readers started coming into existence. Some also believed that
tarot cards were introduced by the Egyptians.
The oldest tarot cards were the “Viscontisforza Deckâ€. These
were the cards that were created for the family of Milan’s.