Tarot Cards
usual kind of Tarot Cards consists of four suits that corresponds to the conventional kinds of playing cards. Each of the tarot cards has a kind of pip cards that are numbered from ace to the ten. It also has four face-cards. All these make up for a complete set of fourteen cards.
Apart from the fourteen cards in the usual kind of Tarot Card deck, the tarot cards are distinguished through a different trump suit that consists of 21 cards and a single card that is known as ‘Fool’. In respective to the particular kind of game or specific kind of reading regimen, the ‘Fool’ acts as a prime kind of trump. This implies that it can be played or read in order to avoid another suits.
Apart from being used in occult sciences, the Tarot cards are being also used in most of the Europe as a recreational means to be played as card games. In most of the English speaking nations, where tarot cards are not used as playing cards and are primarily unknown as recreational means, they are used as mainly for the divination and occult purposes.
In occult stream, the Occultists refer to the trump cards and ‘Fool’ as the ‘major arcana’. The ten pip and the four court-cards in each of the suit are referred to as ‘minor arcana’. The history of the tarot cards are traced back by some of the occult writers and the ancient Egyptians or may be the Kabbalah. There are no concrete evidences or the documented proofs of the origins of the Tarot Cards or of their usages of being used for divination purposes at the time of eighteenth century or before that.