Do you believe in tarot cards?

Question

do you believe in tarot cards? are they real?

Answer 1

Yes they are real, I have seen many different types too !

Answer 2

I believe the Tarot is a book of life.

Every time we read it, it gives us a different message.

It is a living picture book that changes every time we look at it.

Answer 3

I believe that tarot cards are a useful tool to make you think about your problems and perhaps even think about them in a new manner that will help you get rid of preconceived notions about said problems. Beyond that, I do not believe they have any magickal powers.

Answer 4

Since the answers are already within us we can use the Tarot Cards as a mirror to give us feedback in the outside world. Your Higher Awareness (Intuition) draws you to select the cards which reflect where you are in life.

The 22 cards of the Major Arcana are a special map of everyone's common journey of spiritual and personal progress. It is claimed that the 22 pictures of the Major Arcana came from the ancient Egyptian 'Book of Thoth'.

Answer 5

no----only GOD can tell the future.

Answer 6

I believe in the energy your own mind creates towards it...

Answer 7

Hello

Yes they exists, or else you wouldn't be able to buy them!

If your asking do they work then yes they do, they are a wonderful tool for meditation, guidance, insight, personal growth & psychic development.

Sadhara

Answer 8

I'll guess that you are asking if we believe something along the lines that tarot is occult and can predict the future.

Well, let's look at what tarot cards are and where they came from first. Playing cards arrived in Europe via the Islamic world in the mid 14th century. These early cards, known as the Malmuk cards had the same structure as our regular playing cards today, that is, four regular suits, each with 10 pip cards and three court cards. The original suit signs were cups, coins, swords, and polo sticks. Polo was an unknown game in Europe at the time, so these became batons. These suits are now known as the Latin suits and all Europe used them - though they are now only used by Latin countries. The court cards were a King, a Rider, and a Footman. All male court cards are still used in Latin suits, as well as the German and Swiss packs.

The Queen makes her first appearance in a Milanese pack that features six courts in each suit, a male and a female of each rank. Two of the extra courts were dropped and for a time the 56 card pack was standard in the region. It was to this pack that an extra suit of picture cards was added in the mid 15th century. They were commissioned by Duke Filipo Visconti as part of the celebrations for his daughter, Bianca Visconti's marraige into the Sforza family. They took as their theme a traditional Christian triumph procession. Hence they were called trionfi, meaning triumphs, and from which we get our word trump - it was the invention of tarot that marked the invention of trumps in card games!

The game of tarot quickly spread and diversified and was at one time the most popular form of card game throughout continental Europe!

In the early 18th century, German playing card makers began to produce French suited packs with new trumps featuring arbitrary trump designs. The French suits were much cheaper to produce, requiring only stencils rather than carved wood block and the new trumps allowed card makers to show off their skills in a time of great competition. These cards are now used for most of the games, with France being the last to adopt them in the early 20th century.

Toward the end of the 18th century, occultist and resident of Paris, Antoine Court de Gabelin wrote an article on tarot cards for his Encyclopaedia, The Primitive World. He declared that the cards were the codified wisdom of ancient Egyptian priests, essentially a series of hieroglyphs that were much in vogue at the time. He offered no evidence for his theory but it became a popular myth. For about a century, the occult tarot and divination with the cards was only known in France, it was not until members of the Golden Dawn, who based much of their occult beliefs on the cards, began to import them, publish translations of the French texts, and redesign them specifically for occult practice, that the myth reached the English speaking world.

Today, English speakers continue to know the cards for their occult myths and, of course, the fortune telling. However, Europe continues to play an impressive range of card games with them. France, Austria, and Hungary maintain particularly strong tarot game tradition as does Bologna in Italy, where they play a particular good form of the game called Ottocento.

The games are largely what we call point-trick games. That means that like whist, bridge, and spades, players win cards in tricks. Unlike those games, different cards carry different point values, so that it is not the number of tricks you take that wins the game but the number of card points you win in them.

Tarot has no occult origin, it is just a pack of playing cards and no more knows your destiny than a tea leaf knows the history of the East India Company. What I do believe is that tarot is the best family of card games in the world and do hope that you will try them out!