How To Read Tarot Cards: Do You Need Psychic Abilities?
Tarot cards are an extremely popular mystical oracle. It is one of the few oracles that most people feel comfortable to attempt on their own.
You do not find many people attempting to read palms or to contact the dead, but you do see a large amount of people purchasing tarot cards, determined to master them. There has long been a debate about the necessity of psychic ability, whether hidden or not, in reading tarot cards. I, myself, pondered this very question, and in trying to find the answer, learned a little bit more about the tarot cards.
1) The Mysterious History
One of the very interesting things about tarot cards is that there is no concrete proof about where they originated from. Some say that they began in Italy, while others believe that they came from China, and still others say that they are the creation of the mysterious Egyptians. It is believed by some that they were created all the way back in 1400.
The majority of people believe that tarot cards were invented by the Gypsies. This rag-tag band of fortune tellers crossed almost all of the continents at one point in time, and made their fortunes by fleecing gadjo, which is their word for non-gypsy folk.
To do so, they used to read palms, throw stones, and tell the future by looking into crystal balls. There is rumor that more than one gypsy actually had psychic ability, but we will never know for certain how many. If psychic ability is truly a product of the mind, a piece of it that is not used by many people, than it makes sense that the ability to tap into the power could pass down through gypsy progeny.
2) The Basics
There are some basics