| Nobody knows the true origin of Tarot cards. | | | | designs relating to common areas of life or |
| What we do have for historical relics, are decks | | | | existence, such as strength, love, justice, etc. The |
| that have survived from 15th century Italy, when | | | | other 56 cards of the deck are divided into four |
| they were used in card games, the decks being | | | | groups represented by cups, wands, swords, and |
| individually drawn and painted, often commissioned | | | | pentacles. Each of these groups is related to the |
| by rich patrons. At some point in the eighteenth | | | | manner in which a person faces life.A "spread" or |
| century, they were taken up again by scholars of | | | | dealing of the cards, may include 6-15 cards laid |
| the occult, with their designs and patterns being | | | | out in a specific pattern. The interpretation of the |
| credited for influence on certain areas and | | | | cards is based on: the position a particular card is |
| features of life. Out of this rediscovery, came the | | | | in, which could indicate that event is in the past, |
| modern day interpretation of the Tarot cards as | | | | present or future; which cards are nearest, thus |
| a tool of divining the future, according to what | | | | influencing that aspect of a person's life, and the |
| cards were dealt.The deck consists of 78 cards in | | | | reader's ability to relate the meaning of one card, |
| two specific groups. One, called the major arcana, | | | | to the next.Visit for instructions on how to make |
| consists of 22 cards having numbers and specific | | | | just about anything you can think of. |