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A Short Saga to Tarot Cards and Studying Tarot Cards

Tarot cards consist of 21 trump cards, the fool and one extra face card for every alternative suits in the deck. Mixed spheres in Europe use the deck to play games with organized rules, but in English-speaking countries, tarot cards locate their utility in the field of fortune informing.

The tarot cards triggered along with other cards in the 14th century. Scholars theorize that they were created in Islamic countries, but the initial documented news in the English-speaking world is the Christian area of Bern, Switzerland. The older tarot cards contained only sixteen trump cards as compared to twenty one in recent decks.

A typical tarot deck contains 78 cards consisting of the four suits seen in regular card games, which are hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs. The Latin version of the tarot deck has a disparate set of suits. They are swords, batons, cups, and coins. Like a regular deck, tarot cards are numbered from one to ten plus the four court cards; jack, queen, king, and ace.

The difference between a tarot deck and the regular deck is the twenty one divinity cards known as Major Arcana. A joker equivalent in the tarot deck is called the fool, or the excuse. The fool could take all four suits and acts as the sturdiest trump card.

Meaning is assigned to each card in a tarot deck; however, the specifics of interpretation are impacted by the layout of the cards, whether they are upright or reversed, and the interpreter’s own reading. Many of the cards in the major arcana, the trump cards, are fairly logical. The Lovers represent cherish, in some bulk, while Strength is symbolic of courage and drive. Each of the cards in the minor arcana also carries meaning when used for

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