The History of the Tarot — Origins, Purpose, Views

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The History of the Tarot — Origins, Purpose, Views of Tarot Cards
Tweet Jul 13, 2010 Leigh-Ann Andersen
The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck - Leigh-Ann Andersen The origins of Tarot cards are shrouded in mystery. Their design and appearance, and the attitudes toward Tarot have changed many times over the years.
The true origins of the Tarot cards — their design, their place of origin, and their original purpose — have all been lost to time. Despite the attempts of many to illuminate their true origins in books, articles, and other mediums, they remain shrouded in mystery.

The Invention of the Tarot
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars have attributed the Tarot to many different sources. Some claim that the esoteric symbols of the Major Arcana, as well as the Minor Arcana, of the Tarot can be traced to the ancient Egyptians. Others are convinced that they came from the cults of Mithras, in the very first centuries after the appearance of Christ. There are even some who are convinced they originated in China.

Still others are absolutely sure that they must come from the Middle Ages, the time when the tales of King Arthur and the Holy Grail abounded. The more somber scholars attribute them to the Renaissance. There is no clear agreement on the subject.



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The Purpose of Tarot
Tarot Cards have been used for hundreds of years to foresee possible occurrences within a person’s life.

Tarot is best used as a guide and not seen as the ‘be all and end all’ because I feel that is not the purpose of Tarot.

I think Tarot is a great tool to use as a guide to help us see a clearer way to what we desire, to more clearly see a solution to a problem or issue or to help us make decisions that will lead us to where we feel we need to be in life. After all you are your best guide, you have these feelings and urges to be somewhere or do something but may not know the best way for YOU to get there (everyone takes a different path). It is your intuition that you are listening to when you feel these urges, its through your intuition (your connection with spirit, guides, higher self) that you are guided to where you need to be and what you need to do.

This is where, I feel, Tarot comes in.

It is through Tarot and the reader that you can connect with spirit, your higher self, your guides and loved ones that have passed. Tarot is just one tool that they can use to help guide you and point you in the direction you need to go. The Tarot Reader is merely a messenger for spirit, enabling you to hear what spirit, your higher self, your guides and loved ones wish to say to you.

Tarot can be a reminder or a wake up call. You may find your self saying or thinking “I knew that”, if that’s the case – great, you’ve heard your intuition and just needed the Tarot as a reminder, if not, that’s great too as Tarot can set you off in the direction that your higher self needs you to go. Tarot is great for reminding us of what’s important in this moment, what’s important for your next step and is a great tool to use to assist in clearing a confused mind and helping to refocus.

Sure – we all would like to know who our Mr or Ms Right is, when will we meet them, how many kids/grandkids will we have or will I win the lotto, and if so when? A Tarot Reader may give accurate answers to some of these questions but it is extremely difficult to pin events down to a specific time.

I’ll discuss timing in the next post

Till then

Much Love, Much Light and Much Happiness

© Michelle Cosgrove ♥

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TAROT CODES

Surprisingly the mysterious Tarot holds the key to unlocking your true spiritual potential. Tarot has been shrouded in mystery throughout history. There is no definitive theory as to its origin. Some investigators have speculated that its origins predate history, deriving from the lost civilization of Atlantis, whereas some “experts” categorically state that the ancient Egyptians invented the Tarot deck. They deduce this because the “Gypsies” that promulgate the use of Tarot as a predictive tool originated from Egypt. As many researchers believe that the Atlanteans founded Egypt, they could both be right. Whatever the origin, the Tarot has endured. Even through the Church’s condemnation of it as a tool for the “Devil”, it survived. For centuries it lay hidden in plain sight, waiting. Recently authors have begun to reveal the connection between the Tarot and the Kabala. One of the most insightful books, on the spiritual secrets of the Tarot is The Rabbi’s Tarot by Daphna Moore. This extremely enlightening book uses the Rider Waite Tarot deck, which for the purpose of the codes is the deck used in reference to your trumps. It is the Rider-Waite deck that best describes the seven disciplines.

Daphna Moore told us The Rabbi’s Tarot book was the result of a Jewish Rabbi giving a manuscript to an ex-Jesuit priest who studied it for four decades before passing it to her to add her part and then get it published. The question that needs to be asked is why now? Kabalistic teaching has been in the open for nearly eight hundred years, so why has it taken until now to reveal the connection between Jewish mysticism and the Tarot? The answer is that this is the Fullness of Time, where enough members of the human race have evolved to receive the mysteries.

Our regular playing deck is a converted Tarot deck. The 52 cards of the accepted deck is nothing more than the minor arcana of the Tarot, minus the four pages. Instead of Tarots’ minor arcana’s suits of wands, swords, cups and pentacles; the playing card deck has adopted clubs for wands, spades for swords, hearts for cups and diamonds for pentacles. The four knights and four pages became blended into the four jacks, and the only major arcana card to cross over, The Fool became the Joker.
Of course the Tarot in its original form still existed, only it was relegated to fortunetellers. There it sat waiting for humanity

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SYMBOLS AND ZODIAC SIGNS

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Many interpreters of the Tarot see the spiritual implications of the symbols in the card, the Fool. They explain that the Hebrew letter assigned to this card reveals a much deeper secret. As stated the letter assigned to The Fool is Aleph, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Aleph is both a symbol for the Life Breath and Ox or Bull.

Today the word fool has derogatory connotations, however, its etymology derives from the Latin follis, meaning bellows or windbag. A windbag is empty until filled with air. The Divine spark encased in the soul fills his or her windbag with experience. However, if we consider the musical Note discipline we can learn even more from this symbol. If the windbag is the cloth bag in a set of bagpipes, then this symbol could mean that we can be a vessel for the Sound “Word” of the archetypal plane.

One of the most helpful pillars we were given was that the key to the mysteries is hidden in our language, English. As we said, we understand this to mean that we have retained spiritual Truth subliminally transmitting it through time in our language. So despite the changing of the meaning of Fool, the imagery of the card reminds us that the Fool stands for that part of us, the Spiritual soul or ego, (not to be mistaken for the lower ego, which is composed of the lower selfish emotions and motivations) which is innocent and empty and above material concerns.





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