The
tarot is a set of cards displaying allegorical representations.
Originally used as playing cards, they later came to be used for
divination.
Some traditions in mysticism and parapsychology hold
that tarot cards can be used for divination or for accessing the
unconscious. The cards are typically shuffled as a deck and laid out in
one of a variety of patterns, often called "spreads", and then
interpreted as a way of revealing facts about the subject of the
reading. These might include the subject's thoughts and desires (known
or unknown), or events that have taken place in their past or present or
might take place in their future. Sometimes the subject must personally
shuffle or deal the cards in order to affect the ordering.
Each
card in the tarot deck has a variety of symbolic meanings that have
evolved over the years, and many custom or themed tarot decks exist. The
minor arcana cards have astrological attributions that can be used as
general indicators of timing in the year, based on the Octavian
calendar, and the court cards may signify different people in a tarot
reading, with each suit's "nature" providing hints about that person's
attitudes and physical and emotional characteristics.
Some schools
of occult thought or symbolic study, such as the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn, consider the tarot to function as a textbook and mnemonic
device for their teachings. This may be one cause of the word arcana
being used to describe the two sections of the tarot deck: arcana is the
plural form of the Latin word arcanum, meaning "closed" or "secret."
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