Can you do a tarot reading with playing cards instead of tarot cards?

Tarot Cards appear to have originated in the middle east and been imported to Italy in the 1400's were they used to play a game called Tarocchi, as one poster noted they had 4 Suits of 15 cards, much like our 52 card deck of 4 suits of 14 cards which combines the Kt and Page of the Tarocchi as the Jack today.. and a 5th Suit of Trumps or Triumphs we will speak to a little later. Most Tarot Decks follow one of three Primary Models. The Rider Waite Deck, the Thoth Deck, or the Tarot of Marseilles; Decks that follow the Tarot of Marseilles tend to be pips decks, and the Art on the Minors is decorative not figurative.

Thoth Decks tend to a more surrealist style of Art, and use Key word asscociations Like 7 of Swords Futility. The Original Thoth has a Darker Artistic feel than the Waite. Far and Away though most Decks Produced today are Waite Child Decks, the Minors are figurative and depict variations on themes set by the origianal Rider Waite Model.

So the 6 of Swords would reflect Crossings or the Two of Cups a Couple Newly come together, and so on; with-in the context of that structure the amount and varity of Tarot Art today is simply amazing, and you should visit Taroteca at http://taroteca.multiply.com/photos/albu... To begin exploring this aspect of the Tarot. The art of Many Decks in Quite Beautifal. The Connolly Tarot is a beautifal deck that will appeal to Christ-Witches, the Robin Wood is a very Beautifal Wiccan Deck, and the Gilded Tarot is just Gorgeious.

The Trumps as noted by another poster contain 22 named cards like The Magus, the Hermit, and Death, in the end they describe a Spiritual Journey from Ignorance to Elightenment, or from the Fool to The World - Search the Fools Journey, you'll get lots of hits. Today's Tarot Cards are more of a Spiritual Tool, than a device for gaming, they can be used for Divination, for Mediation, for Artistic Inspiration. Of course Tarot is most widely used as a Divination Tool, and despite the "Ridiculous' comments, My experiance based on over 500 readings is they work,and they work well, as I have no particular Psychic talents what so ever I can tell you this is a learned and Learnable skill available to anyone who choses to invest the time it takes to learn the meaning of the cards, and practice the art of reading.

How they work is as unknown, and unknowable as any other Metaphysical activity in the context of our current science and its matarialist paradigm, but they do work. Some believe there is a As Above so Below mechanism in play, but my experiance convinces me they are means of commuication with our Guides, Guardian Angles, or Higher Self; however one terms the metaphysical guardians that watche over each of us in our journey in this material world. I hope this anwser has been of value to you.

Brightest Blessings, BB.

Some people like to say that Tarot is very old from ancient Egypt. I don't believe this is so. I believe it was created during the Renaissance since the imagery on the traditional cards are from the time period.

I'm not sure of the origin of the cards, but I would say Europe.

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