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The Sun (XIX) from the Rider–Waite tarot deck The Sun (XIX) is the nineteenth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination .
Thoth Tarot is an esoteric tarot deck painted by Lady Frieda Harris according to instructions from Aleister Crowley. Crowley referred to this deck as The Book of Thoth , and also wrote a 1944 book of that title intended for use with the deck.
The Justice card, as a member of the tarot deck, appears in early tarot, such as the Tarot de Marseilles. It is part of the tarot's Major Arcana, and usually follows the Chariot, as card VIII, although some decks vary from this pattern. The virtue Justice accompanies two of the other cardinal virtues in the Major Arcana: temperance and strength.
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]
The Major Arcana cards redesigned by Roberto Viesi. The Major Arcana are the named cards in a cartomantic tarot pack.There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (or 1 to 21, with the Fool being left unnumbered).
The Star (XVII) from the Rider–Waite tarot deck The Star (XVII) is the 17th ranking or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. [ 1 ] It is used in game playing as well as in divination .
Many modern tarot decks portray the Devil as a satyr-like creature. According to Waite, the Devil is standing on an altar. [2] In pre–Eliphas Levi tarot decks like the Tarot of Marseille, the devil is portrayed with breasts, a face on the belly, eyes on the knees, lion feet and male genitalia. He also has bat-like wings, antlers, a raised ...
The tarot refers to a pack of playing cards used from the mid-15th century to play games and, later, also for cartomantic packs of cards used for divination. Tarot may also refer to: Tarot card reading, a form of cartomancy; Tarot card games, games played with Tarot decks, also known as Tarock decks French Tarot, a trick-taking card game