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    Tarot Explained!: Explain This! Series, #5
    Tarot Explained!: Explain This! Series, #5
    Tarot Explained!: Explain This! Series, #5
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    Tarot Explained!: Explain This! Series, #5

    By Misha Lane

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    Ever been to a fortune teller, had your palm read or had a tarot reading? Maybe you own a deck of cards and would love to understand how they work a little better. Maybe you think it’s all a load of mumbo jumbo and simply want to know:

    How does the Tarot work… or does it even work at all?

    This book not only answers that question in depth, but will actually show you exactly how the tarot cards provide a connection to a universal store of knowledge and energy.

    When reading this book you will get a great understanding of the history and background of the tarot, and also detailed information on how to use the tarot cards yourself.

    If you want an insight into the world of tarot cards and have all your tarot questions answered in plain talk, with easy to understand steps to follow, then this is the book for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShaharm Publications
    Release dateNov 30, 2015
    ISBN9781519952660
    Tarot Explained!: Explain This! Series, #5
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    Misha Lane

    Misha Lane has held a lifelong passion for metaphysics and alternative healing methods. From working with her clients, she has developed an intuition about the health solutions that are most effective and work best for achieving their goals.  Misha has now felt called to share her knowledge and message with a wider audience, by writing and publishing books that can pass on her healing wisdom to others. At her relatively young age, she has already helped many people across the globe and her readers are becoming empowered by following Misha’s simple and easy to understand explanations of self improvement.

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      Tarot Explained! - Misha Lane

      INTRODUCTION

      The most ancient origins of tarot cards are now shrouded in mystery and contradiction. In fact, many people who want to study the past origins of these cards get frustrated because of the lack of information and plenty of misinformation. It might even be tempting to believe that there is a great conspiracy to cover their origins. However, there are also more benign reasons that the beginnings of these decks of cards are not well understood before they appeared in Europe around the 14th century.

      Part of this mystery may be because serious scholars shy away from items associated with the occult. Because there is a lack of serious study, people have stepped in with contradictory information that has no real basis in fact and may have even been concocted for marketing purposes. Even though some speculative writing isn't true, it has been around for many years. Since it appears in documents that are old, some people make the mistake of believing it is fact.

      However, in order to understand the tarot, this document will share what is known about these cards. Before the cards appeared in Europe, much of it is speculation. Perhaps readers will do their own research to trace back further in time to begin to understand how the tarot came to be.

      THE ORIGIN OF THE CARDS AND NAME, TAROT

      It is believed that these cards traveled to Egypt from Arab lands. Even though the mysteries of the Kabbalah are usually associated with Jewish mysticism, there is some evidence that Sufi scholars also had input into it. Some scholars have suggested that the word comes from turuq, an Arab word meaning the four ways. Indeed, there are four suits in a tarot deck, just like a conventional deck of playing cards, and it is believed that there is some mystic symbolism included in the graphics on the cards.

      In any case, the cards are believed to have traveled from Arab countries, possibly Egypt, into Italy very near the end of the 1300s. The first documentation of anybody in Europe actually producing these cards is around the beginning or middle of the 1400s in Northern Italian cities like Milan. At that time, additional cards were added to the original decks. The additional cards were called triumph cards, and this word later evolved into trump in English.  These cards had the familiar suits of cups, staves, swords, and coins. In some decks, the cups and coins are known as discs and pentacles.

      The Italian name for the deck of cards was tarocchi. The origin of this term is not certain. It is interesting, but unexplained, that the singular form is the common name of a kind of Italian orange. Later, when the decks spread, this work got changed to tarot in English. In any case, this is the earliest documentation of the contemporary English name.

      By now it should be obvious that tarot decks were originally used in Europe to play games. This spread first from Italy to France. Then it went to England, Germany, and other European countries. The first manuscript with rules that still exists

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