The History Of Tarot

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BlogCatalog Bloggers for Good Fundraising Challenge
2007-05-28 16:04:00
The importance of raising money for schools in New Orleans.Help teachers, Help students. So many people, both children and adults still does not have the opportunity to achieve their dreams by the mere means of an education. DonorsChoose was started by a group of teachers from a Bronx public high school. This is truly a project that will help a lot of children, so many schools lack the normal basic means for a good environment. I can only urge people to read more here:http://www.donorschoose.org//about/h istory.htmlYou can also join DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge DonorsChoose is calling all bloggers to help us raise funds for these projects. You can create a DonorsChoose “Challenge.” Pick the the classroom needs that speak to you. Your readers will be able to fulfill them. And kids will get great educational experiences.Check out the challenge!
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The Tarocchi Of Mantegna Cards
2007-05-15 01:01:00
These cards are dated to 1465 A.D.There is only very little known about this deck of cards;Some attributes this deck of cards to a Andreas Mantegna (1431-1506);Andrea Mantegna was a Renaissance artist living in Italy. He was a serious student of Roman archaeology, which some of his sketches show. Since Andrea were a child, he was fortunate to be thought by some of his century great artists. At the age of eleven he was an apprentice of Francesco Squarcione (A Padovan-Italy, artist 1397 – 1468). It is probably through Francesco that Andrea became so fascinated by ancient Rome, Francesco was almost in love with ancient Rome. Andrea was only around 17 years old when he was called together with Nicoló Pizolo to work with a large artist group on decorating the Ovetari Chapel, Andrea Mantegna finished most of the work alone.Kenneth Clark attributes the cards to a Parrasio Michele (Micheli);I personally wonder why Kenneth Clark thinks the cards are attributed to Parrasio?.. The T...
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Tarot for Beginners
2007-05-07 00:35:00
Starting Point:I recommend taking you're time in these first steps, because they will be very important.The first step in the practice of Tarot (tarot-reading) is the choice of cards, which deck will fit your personality the best? There is many thousands of tarot deck, everything from angle cards to the Indians totem animals. This part should be taken very seriously, as these will be the messenger to you.Personal account:I will here give you my personal account, so you have something to compare to; Back in 1995-96 I bought ‘the standard tarot deck’, which is Aleister Crowley’s tarot deck. I call this deck standard, because it is standard here in Denmark where I live, and actually it is mostly this deck of cards that the shops carry. Then I started out in the small way, making reading for myself. But personally I found it harder to do a reading over myself, I tend to think the very worst about myself. The very best way – is non-existing – like everything else ‘perfect’...

BASIC TAROT
2007-05-05 14:49:00
A tarot deck consist of:The Modern tarot deck is made up of 78 cards in total, divided into three groups called;22 cards The Major Arcana: which are also referred to as the Trumps in the Deck. (The big mysteries of life lie in these 22 cards).These cards represent the highest of our consciousness. It is believed that the Inspiration descend from ancient Egypt, which describes the arch types of the human personality. These cards indicate a significant subject in ones life, not only that, they are also very much linked to Numerology. Again everything is linked in the very ancient mythologies of North African cultures.40 cards Minor Arcana: They are also referred to as the situation-card.These cards tell about situations in the every day life such as the work place or in a relationship or even in the home. Again Numerology embedded into the cards.16 Court cards: These cards can represent individuals, the queen and Princesses representing Woman and the Kings and knights are then men. Th...
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DEATHCard XIII in the Tarot Deck
2007-05-02 03:21:00
This Card could probably also be called ‘Osiris’, whom was the ancient Egyptian god for the underworld. (The underworld is much like the Northern mythology of Valhalla, which was an afterlife kingdom among the skies.)Speaking about Death, when it comes to either a tarot reading or an Astrology reading, is such a sensitive case, which most people still to this day misunderstand.The image above is the ’death card’ in the Marseilles tarot deck, some refer to this card as ‘devil, trader, the loss card’ etc. Actually the Marseilles cards are not old at all, they are collected and named around 1930 by the French cartomancer Paul Marteau, the word Cartomancer means ‘the art of reading through cards’.     Th e oldest set of cards is probably the Cary-Yale Visconti deck (Image above) which is a hand painted deck of cards coming from Italy. It was the high noble family called Visconti, this family line dominated northern Italy between the 14th and 15th ...
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