The Surprising Truth Regarding The Tarot

It's a tragic case of Cartomancy

Tarot readings = Cartomancy. The act of divining (or intuiting) one's fortune or some other situation, by means of apparently random selections and layout of cards in a certain formation.

Do they work? Certain non-believers claim it's balderdash!. They claim it's completely fraudulent and mercilessly targeting the inexperienced, the impressionable and the innocent.

Now you would have to be younger than four not to have heard of the Tarot. In which case it is highly unlikely you could be reading this. (unless you're a junior genius, where you'd probably already know all about this topic anyway)

So I'm guessing most would be familiar with the systematic design of the Tarot. There is a bucketful of information out there and I won't bore you with the details here.

So straight up man, is it a goer?

Seems everyone agues excitedly as to exactly how the Tarot works, or if in fact it works at all. You want your fortune told, right? You want your future predicted, right? You want a little more control of your life, right? What gives?

Does the scheme somehow stimulate dormant intuitive or psychic abilities in those so predisposed? Does the questioning arouse invisible outside intelligences; angels, guides, discarnate souls, who directly or indirectly interfere to shape outcomes in an unearthly way? Or is this a universe of 'no accidents' where the purposeful process of querying creates a simultaneously timed earth modality beyond the chaos theory?

The major arcana particularly, claimed by some to be a wormhole into our subconscious, due somewhat to prototypical patterns, has been likened in essence to the psychology of Carl Jung's collective unconscious.

Sorry, but for the genuine secret to the Tarot to be fully appreciated we'll need to do a little backwards time-travel.

A little history music, if you please, Maestro

There was a playing card pack of 4 suits which first appeared in Europe in the 1370's, probably in Italy or Spain. This bore a striking resemblance to the modern playing card pack we use today. Then, in Italy in the 1430's, a 5th suit of 21 beautifully adorned cards called trionfi ('triumphs') plus an peculiar card called matto ('the fool') were added to this pack. No, 'the fool' was NOT the predecessor of the modern joker, which was created separately in the late 19th century, as a euchre game card, of a jack with no suit.

Like in modern Mardi Gras, the illustrations in the trionfi, most likely depicted figure-heads in medieval re-enactments of triumphal Roman parades. The reason for the trionfi was to function as a superior suit, becoming 'trumps' or a suit of 'triumphs'. Played by 3 or 4 , sometimes 5 players, these 'tarot games' consisted of informal team-ups directed towards the strongest player in each deal.

So the upshot is; based upon the Venetian or the Piedmontese tarot, until about 1780 in France, tarot was a game. It had dead-set no spirituality. It didn't know a pound from a penny.

Can't be true

Here, I'll say it again - slower. Only 230 years ago, the tarot was played as a game, possibly by children, not dissimilar to say our Gin Rummy. It was never intended to be a divinatory method, an oracle. It is NOT a purpose-built tool!! It's a perverted game. Unquestionably!

Rant and rave your heart out about its epidemic popularity, the mountains of volumes of literature written on it, the testimonials to its effectiveness, however once compared to say Crystalomancy, the Runes, or the I-Ching, the Tarot's origins, genealogy and pedigree is in a state of ruddy embarrassment.

Not a mere child of just 230, The I-Ching is a age-old spiritual master key of some 6,000 years, probably the first transcribed document in history, created wholly and solely for the purpose of functioning as an ORACLE. It is imbued with thousands, not merely a couple of hundred years of vibrational human consciousness. It is truly an time worn treasure.

Hang on, we're talking about the magic of the Tarot.

So . . .

It's really about reality.

There is another explanation however that I ascribe to. It refers to the principle that we are all the masters of our own fate. We create our lives for ourselves according to what we predominantly desire or believe. We are also egocentric, meaning the world revolves around each of us. (to each of us).

So that when a card reader suggest to us a possible situation as depicted by the cards, our very powerful association 'reflex' kicks in full force, scans our life and makes every attempt to coordinate the broad-brush card situation with our 'real-life' situation. Therefore we detect what appears to be a track of occurrences that seem to match. We, together with certain sanctions we've given over to the reader, then trust the reading depicts an accurate portrayal of our lifestyle.

The card reader will bring down his/her final judgment in our now current atmosphere of near-perfect trust. In our now conditioned self, we believe this to be a state of physical reality.

Let me introduce our star performer, our very own S.F.P.

Remember what I said? We are the master of our own destiny. Well what we now do is to take the powerful belief of the reading outcome and 'force' it to become a life reality.

In other words we actually create the reality as prophesied by the cards. Incredible, no? This is what is known as a guess what? A self-fulfilling prophesy. So is this fraud? No, it's just another example of the amazing power of the mind.

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