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The expansion of tarot outside of Italy, first to France and Switzerland, occurred during the Italian Wars. The most prominent tarot deck version used in these two countries was the Tarot of Marseilles, of Milanese origin. [2] While the set of trumps was generally consistent, their order varied by region, perhaps as early as the 1440s.
Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy ... but was in fact of ancient Egyptian origin, ... did not become well established in the public ...
Tarot card games. Hungarian statesmen playing tarokk in 1895, the preferred card game of the pre-communist era. [1] 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 ...
Using tarot cards as a divination tool didn’t come about until the 1700s when Jean Baptiste-Alliette, known by the pseudonym Etteilla, published one of the first books on tarot being used in ...
The Rider–Waite Tarot is a widely popular deck for tarot card reading, [ 1 ][ 2 ] first published by the Rider Company in 1909, based on the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, both members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Also known as the Waite–Smith, [ 3 ]Rider–Waite–Smith ...
1 daughter. Arthur Edward Waite (2 October 1857 – 19 May 1942) was a British poet and scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider–Waite tarot deck (also called the Rider–Waite–Smith or Waite–Smith deck). As his biographer R. A. Gilbert described him, "Waite's name has ...
Divination (from Latin divinare 'to foresee, foretell, predict, prophesy, etc.') [2] is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice. [3] Using various methods throughout history, diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or ...
As above, so below. The Magician, from the 1909 Rider–Waite tarot deck, often thought to represent the concept of "as above, so below". "As above, so below" is a popular modern paraphrase of the second verse of the Emerald Tablet, a short Hermetic text which first appeared in an Arabic source from the late eighth or early ninth century. [1]