Saturday, November 7, 2009

HISTORY OF TAROT

The Tarot cards originated over 520 years ago in Italy. In the initial times it was known as Tarocchi (also Tarock). Tarot is the most ancient form of Divination, called HUMANKIND.

The first use of tarot was in a game called Triumphs. Gradually it was adopted as a tool for divination. Over the years, it has grown into a special art, a metaphysical tool that enables us to look into our lives and find some extra information we hadn’t really understood or known about before. Tarot brings to light a confirmation of things you’ve always known or helps to add a new perspective to a perplexing question or problem.

Tarot reading is an arrangement of cards dealt from a shuffled deck. The layout of the cards is named a spread, and determines what each card refers to. For example, if there are Two Paths, the spread is used to understand an upcoming decision, and hence it uses cards to represent the different options and their outcomes. Generally used for fortune telling, tarot is a fine tool to assess one’s current life-situation and aid in spiritual development.