One
of the popular myths is that their originators were gypsies.
In the 10th century, they appeared throughout Europe to
earn their fortune from divinatory cards. They were the
worshippers of the Goddess in the form of Tara (like the
Celtic Tara, Semitic torah, and roman terra mater) as the
Goddess was believed to have 21 incarnations, the major
arcane or their trump cards numbered 21 and the fool was
zero. Legend says the gypsies belonged to India but pretended
to be from Egypt because Europeans considered Egypt to be
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The
first recorded use of these cards, used for games, under
the mane tarocco, was in 14th century in Italy. The cards,
depicting the parade or triomfi held on many celebrations,
were made for the Vicsconzi Scoria family of Milan. Many
say that the Saracens of Arabia are said to have used cards,
called ‘Naib’. But some decks, even today, do
not include the major arcane. This goes back to the Church
of the middle ages, which took a strong anti-pagan faith
stand. Thus, major arcane, with its intricate symbolism,
was banned in Florence, Germany, Paris and Northern Italy.
In 1452, cardinal john Capistrano had the cards burned in
the market place of Nuremberg.
Then
tarot finds mention after 300 years in late 17th Century
when the Court de Gebelen, an occultist, propagated that
the pictures had symbolic meanings and told Egyptian tales.Download
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Ambica
Gulati said in the Journal of Astrology (December 2004)
that another popular diviner and occultist, Etteilla published
in 1783 a book with his own meanings of the cards. Then
in late 18th century another book on Tarot-the Tarot of
the bohemians and the followers of the Hermetic order of
the golden dawn circulated decks in that period. This group
was started in England by three men -Weskit, Wood Ford and
Woodman. They found an old manuscript belonging to a secret
German society and got permission to start their own group
in England. The golden dawn even today is flourishing in
England. Much of this is credited to S. Liddel Mathers (later
changed his name to Macgregor), who wrote a treatise on
the Tarot, forming the basis of ritual, material and philosophy
of the modern Tarot.
In the 19th century, there is mention of eliphas Levi zahed
who is credited to be the originator of Tarot. Levi believed
that Tarot was a key to life, an essential tool for man
to use to develop himself as a human being so that he might
find heaven. The two world wars also had their impact on
the cards when the secret societies almost died. Tarot blossomed
in the USA of 1920s in Los Angeles. Paul foster case, who
had been initiated into the golden dawn in New York in 1910,
founded his own group BOTA (Builders Of The Adytum).
Today, various decks are available and paintings of these
decks can be seen in museums across USA and Europe (Vatican
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But there is no substitute to the Zodiac and Vedic form
of astrology which is tried, tested and trusted across the
world and which is thousands and thousands year old.
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