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Tarot games are card games played with tarot packs designed for card play and which have a permanent trump suit alongside the usual four card suits. The games and packs which English-speakers call by the French name tarot are called tarocchi in the original Italian, Tarock in German and similar words in other languages.
According to Waite's 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, The Empress is the inferior (as opposed to nature's superior) Garden of Eden, the "Earthly Paradise".Waite defines her as a Refugium Peccatorum — a fruitful mother of thousands: "she is above all things universal fecundity and the outer sense of the Word, the repository of all things nurturing and sustaining, and of feeding others."
Tarot (/ ˈ t ær oʊ /, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini.
This card is generally considered positive. It is said to reflect happiness and contentment, vitality, self-confidence, and success. [1] [2] [3] Sometimes referred to as the best card in tarot, it represents good things and positive outcomes to current struggles.
The King of Swords card from the Rider–Waite tarot. The Minor Arcana, sometimes known as the Lesser Arcana, are the suit cards in a cartomantic tarot deck.. Ordinary tarot cards first appeared in northern Italy in the 1440s and were designed for tarot card games. [1]
By the end of the 16th century, this order became extinct. In Milan, the World was the highest, followed by the Angel. This spread to Switzerland and France during the Italian Wars, becoming famous as the "Tarot of Marseilles". [11] [12] The earliest known appearance of the word "Tarocho" as the new name for the game is in Brescia around 1502 ...
The Magician (I), from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Magician (I), also known as The Magus or The Juggler, is the first trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing and divination. Within the card game context, the equivalent is the Pagat which is the lowest trump card, also known as the atouts or ...
The Hierophant is typically male, even in decks that take a feminist view of the Tarot, such as the Motherpeace Tarot, The Hierophant was also known as "The Teacher of Wisdom". In most iconographic depictions, the Hierophant is seen seated on a throne between two pillars symbolizing Law and Freedom or obedience and disobedience, according to ...