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  2. Cartomancy - Wikipedia

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    Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were introduced into Europe in the 14th century. [1] Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as cartomancers, card readers, or simply readers. Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of providing fortune-telling card readings in the 18th, 19th, and 20th ...

  3. Category:Cartomancy - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... Help. Divination using cards such as standard playing cards, tarot cards, or oracle cards ... Tarot (10 C, 10 P) Pages in ...

  4. Tarot card reading - Wikipedia

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    Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby practitioners use tarot cards to purportedly gain insight into the past, present or future. They formulate a question, then draw cards to interpret them for this end.

  5. Major Arcana - Wikipedia

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    The society subsequently published Dictionnaire synonimique du livre de Thot, a book that "systematically tabulated all the possible meanings which each card could bear, when upright and reversed." [25] Following Etteilla, tarot cartomancy was moved forward by Marie-Anne Adelaid Lenormand (1768–1830) and others. [2]

  6. File:Phrases and names, their origins and meanings (IA ...

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    The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.).

  7. Marie Anne Lenormand - Wikipedia

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    The topic of the spread is the center card on the second row and the other cards are interpreted in how they relate to or influence it. There is also the Grande Tableau ("Great Scene"), in which the whole deck is laid out in a grid of four rows of nine cards (4x9) or five rows (four rows of eight cards and the fifth row having only four cards).

  8. Suit of swords - Wikipedia

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    This card can also indicate the stubborn adherence to an ideal. The Nine of Swords can represent being plagued by fear, guilt, doubt, and worries that are to a large extent, unfounded. However, it can indicate the process of letting go of grief and, in combination with healing cards like the Queen of Wands, it can be highly beneficial.

  9. Tarot of Marseilles - Wikipedia

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    The name Tarot de Marseille is not of particularly ancient vintage; it was coined as late as 1856 by the French card historian Romain Merlin, and was popularized by French cartomancers Eliphas Levi, Gérard Encausse, and Paul Marteau who used this collective name to refer to a variety of closely related designs that were being made in the city of Marseilles in the south of France, a city that ...