What Effects Have Tarot

Cards had on us as a
Whole?
By Aaron Henderson

What Are Tarot Cards?

Card game with supernatural qualities
Speculated to be invented in Italy around 1391
Made of a deck called the Torocco
Torocco contains 22 Major Arcanas and 56 Minor Arcanas that
are split into four groups of 14
Each Arcana corresponds with the Hebrew alphabet and
hieroglyphs
Major Arcanas go from 0 to 21
Practitioners believe that they represent knowledge of science,

Major Arcanas
0-The Fool:Focuses on faith, high ideals, and personal effort;
basically any protagonist.
1-The Magician:Focuses on new beginnings, finance, and the
future.
2-The High Priestess:Focuses on waiting and learning.
3-The Empress:Focuses on feeling, emotion, and socializing.
4-The Emperor:Focuses on construction or something that will
change your life.
5-The Hierophant:Focuses on establishments, truth, and
understanding.
6-The Lovers:Focuses on love, unpredictable changes, and choice.
7-The Chariot:Focuses on examining your affairs and assessing
the situation.
8-Strength:Focuses on reaching goals or income.
9-The Hermit:Focuses on seeking, finding, and problem solving.
10-Wheel of Fortune:Focuses on important new that can change
your life and unexpected developments.

11-Justice:Focuses on changing business situations, family

matters, and rewards for effort.
12-The Hanged Man:Focuses on life, our values, and ways of
thinking.
13-Death:Focuses on endings, partnerships, or a new lifestyle.
14-Temperance:Focuses on what you thought you completed, such
as old friends, money, or desires that will test you.
15-The Devil:Focuses on the negative cycle of events or adverse
conditions.
16-The Tower:Focuses on financial problems, separations, and loss
of faith in ones world.
17-The Star:Focuses on future faiths and what could happen.
18-The Moon:Focuses on inner disturbances of disquiet or dread.
19-The Sun:Focuses on society, the public, and self-image.
20-Judgement:Focuses on new personal relationships, business
ventures, or changes in habit.
21-The World:Focuses on world issues, events, change, and new
opportunities.

Major Developments of the Tarot

1770-Jean Baptiste Alliette (or Etteilla) was the
first to publish divine meanings for the cards, as
well as the first public deck.
1781-Antoine Court de Gbelin began the rebirth
with a theory that the cards were of Egyptian
origin that had mystic knowledge because the
pictures looked like hieroglyphs. He thought
they were the lost Egyptian key to lost magical
wisdom written by Thoth, the Egyptian god of
written knowledge. Secret societies later
changed the cards to fit Antoines theory.

Additional Theories
1799-The Rosetta Stone was discovered and kept
Antoines theory alive because the Romany (or
Gypsy) people, who were believed to be of Egyptian
descent, carried the cards around with them.
19th Century-Occultist Eliphas Lvi creates a theory
that Tarot cards and the Kabbalah (Hebrew
mysticism) are connected, which started the belief
that Tarot cards came from Israel instead of Egypt.
Because of this, there was proof that the Tarot
crossed religious boundaries and is seen today as a
timeless body of knowledge in every mystical path.

Readings
Question Readings-Involve asking a specific question.
They arent however used to specifically answer yes or
no to your question. They also shouldnt be fully used
in making a decision, but instead should be used as a
guide of how to get your answer.
Open Readings-Address the larger parts of life and an
assortment of situations. These mostly happen during a
new chapter of life, such as marriage, college, or
starting a family. You can make the reading direct a
certain part of your life, but not something super
specific.

Controversies
Tarot cards go against the first commandment in the
Bible because it goes against the belief that only God
should be the one to reveal the future and no one else.
Back when the game was first played, nobles were
offended by three particular enigmas: Death, The
Devil, and The Tower because of what they stand for.
Soon after, several religious leaders saw the cards as
Satanic and attempted to get them banned.
One sermon states that the Devil himself created and
named the cards, and they are his triumph. The Devil
wins the game from the loss of souls.