The Surprising Fact Concerning Tarot Cards

========== SADLY, I'M AFRAID, IT'S CARTOMANCY ===========

Cartomancy IS Tarot readings. The modicum of divining (or prospecting) one's fortune or some other situation, by means of manifestly random selections and array of cards in a pattern.

Does it work? Some sceptics say absolutely not. 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 it must be that most would be familiar with the systematic design of the Tarot. There is a shipload 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 system somehow stimulate potential intuitive or psychic attributes in those so inclined? Does the query process itself activate invisible outside intelligences; those passed over, arch angels, over-souls, elementals, spirit guides who directly or indirectly intervene to act upon circumstances in a spiritual manner? Or is this a universe of 'no accidents' where the purposeful process of querying creates a simultaneously timed earth modality beyond the chaos theory?

Considered by some to be a gateway to the subconscious mind, the major arcana in particular, due somewhat to prototypical patterns, has been linked in an idealogical manner to the psychology of Carl Jung's collective unconscious.

Sorry, but to fully comprehend the ultimate truth to the Tarot we'll need to do a little backwards time-travel.


========== MAESTRO, SOME HISTORY MUSIC, IF YOU PLEASE ==========

Under hazy circumstances, a 4 suited playing card pack first appeared in Europe in the 1370's, probably in Italy or Spain. This bore a striking likeness to the modern playing card pack of today. Then, in Italy in the 1430's, a an additional 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 forerunner 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 characterizations in the trionfi, most likely highlighted governing officials in medieval re-enactments of triumphal Roman street parades. The reason for the trionfi was to function as a master suit, becoming 'trumps' or a suit of 'triumphs'. Played by 3 or 4 , on occasion 5 players, these 'tarot games' exhibited fluid alliances targeted toward the strongest player in each deal.

So the clanger is; based upon the Venetian or the Piedmontese tarot, until about 1780 in France, tarot was a pleasant waste of time. It had dead-set no spirituality. It didn't know brick from clay.


========== FAIR DINKUM? ==========

Here, I'll say it again - slower. Barely 230 years ago, the tarot was played as a game, possibly by children, not unlike say our Cribbage. It was never intended to be a a soothsaying amplifier, a prophet. It is NOT a purpose-built tool!! It's a debauched game. Definitely!

Say what you will 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 rampant confusion.

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 institutionalized timeless artifact.


========== BUT WAIT, THIS ARTICLE IS ABOUT THE WONDER OF TAROT.==========

So . . .

The truth lies in what really is real.

We can approach this from a fresh vantage point. 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 clearance we've given over to the reader, conclude a certain accuracy of the reading to depict a valid portrayal of our life circumstances.

With our now current atmosphere of near-perfect trust the card reader will bring down his/her final judgment. We then believe this to be a reality, in our now conditioned self.


========== LET ME INTRODUCE OUR STAR PERFORMER, OUR VERY OWN S.F.P. ==========

We are the master of our own fate, remember what I said? 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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