The Tarot

According to the most accurate historical data available Tarot cards originated in Italy. They first appeared in the modern form around the mid 15th to the early 16th century. The seventy-eight card deck was first made for the Visconti family the rulers of Milan. Speculators believe that tarot may have originated in Egypt but there is no concrete of evidence to support these claims.

Some people even speculate the Pythagoras, one of the first gurus of modern day esoteric philosophy and practices, may have invented the precursors to Tarot through his work with mathematics, music, tetractys, and Numerology. The first recorded modern day Tarot cards were restricted to the upper strata of society. Owning cards was definitely a prestigious symbol of social status.

It is no surprise that Tarot cards were under condemnation from their very conception by the religious authorities of the time. Being frowned upon by the Roman Catholic Church especially as idolatry.

Interestingly enough science has been much kinder to the Tarot deck than religion. For example, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud subscribed to tarot beliefs. Carl Jung attached symbolic importance to The Tarot cards attributing the cards with inkblot type properties enabling the psychologist to form evaluative inferences about an individuals archetypal characteristics.

The cards help identify characteristics that represent the subconscious symbolic and pre-symbolic attributes that affect how they view themselves, others, and their environment. However, most modern psychologists frown on the notion of using Tarot cards in therapeutic settings for archetypal analysis.

These methods of archetypal analysis are relegated to the fringes of the clinical practices. Unearthing the true origins of Tarot cards may never occur with empirical certainty. But, one thing is for certain theses divinatory aids are certain to continue on through the ages as a mystical tool for ascertaining answers to questions on past, present, and future events.

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