The Little Known History of Tarot 

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I hope this happens with Yu-Gi-Oh decks in the next 100 years

Tarot - I am no expert on this - one thing I do know - it all depends on the readers consciousness . Make sure the reader cares about people and has a good heart - thoughts & words carry lots of power. This applies to choosing a doctor , a therapist , a spiritual guide , and all the people you surround yourself with .

As much as I love Victorianism, we really do have to blame the Victorians for misappropriating, misinterpreting, or otherwise forever altering much of our perception of spirituality, the occult, mysticism, and so on. Even the concept of the pentagram having positive or negative connotations based on which direction the point is pointing (right side up or upside-down) is a decidedly Victorian invention.

If all the books on Tarot have different opinions on it's origin and meaning then who's to say this guy's explanation is 100% accurate?

I love the cat napping on the chair in the background! Who else thinks that's one who really has all the answers? 😜😽

I bought my first Tarot deck at 17. There was only the Rider-Waite deck available at that time. I studied Astrology metaphysics Tibetan Buddhism Jungian Psychology shamanism and then rediscovered the Tarot and studied with two teachers for about a year and a half regularly. I became a pro in July 1991 and here I am. The Tarot is a symbolic path that the soul encounters in 22 archetypal stages from 0 The Fool to The World and back again #22 The Fool. I intuitively believe that the Tarot evolved from the ancient metaphysical teachings which were secret teachings encoded in symbols and the 4 elements and were passed on verbally than written down. The system wherever it came from correspond completely with the Hebrew Alphabet and The Tree of Life. It is also anti-church anarchy. Because it is archetypal it can morph to fit into any system applied to it. It is a mystery occult that can't completely be explained.

I’m late here. But, I own several decks because I love to learn about different illustrations of the same “meaning.” At the very, very end of your video you hit the nail on the head: what speaks to you. When it comes to choosing a deck you must go with your intuition and pick the deck that you simply understand. It’s also important to understand where Tarot originates from (loosely) and this was covered very well in your Video. The Tarot Bible by Sarah Bartlett is an amazing book that covers the origin in great detail along with other much needed info for those wanting to grasp the full info of understanding tarot and learning how to read cards without a reference book. Thanks for sharing this!!!!

This was a great video! Informative and I learned so much. Well done! 🌟🌟😲

I love tarot and catormancy. I actually started learning astrology first and birth chart readings and now learning catormancy. After listening to the story of the fools journey I connected to the tarot really well and I am learning lenormand as well.

Tarot or Playing Cards are in 4 suits according to 4 elements Earth Water Fire & Air and are of 52 cards or 52 weeks in a year. Tarot has 4 more or Major Arcane that holds on the rest 52 cards. So of course these cards resonates with all of us. So colors, visuals, images are cruicial relevant in mysticism or Tarot but people tend to naturally resonates with the numbers. Maths and numbers will always be universal

Great video ,thanks for sharing :)

This was great! Thank you!

I would say the Tarot began in the West in the 1400, but the symbolism existed before then.

Cards were made for divination purposes in the beginning Not for games of chance or entertainment. However in some areas religious zealots were always on a witch hunt So if approached was better to say we are playing games!

I love that it started out as bridge basically, what a wild and crazy ride Tarot took

Superwave: Project Camelot interviews Dr. Paul Laviolette, 1:24:24 I had been developing sub quantum kinetics for many years, I’d basically written up the early papers at which point I was ready to submit to a few journals. At the same time I was studying ancient lore and back in 1975 had discovered that the tarot encodes concepts very similar to what I was talking about in the physics and I did take a class in Cambridge Massachusetts on the tarot and as the teacher was going through each of the arcanum; the tarot is a set of 22 cards that they use in fortune telling but they date back to the middle ages from the gypsies, the earliest decks are attributed to the gypsies which had migrated from India through Egypt and esoteric scholars believe that they had picked up the concepts from the Egyptian priests prior to the collapse of the priesthood. In the very early days in the kingdoms of Egypt the priests were in power and they had an indoctrination into this ancient science that explained how the universe was created and these concepts were Frescos that were on the wall of the chamber that the new priests were brought in and taught the meanings, that were later put into the tarot deck.

The history of the Tarot goes much further than the 15th century, they are referenced by the Cathars (Catharism (11th - 14th Century France) and Cathari (4th - 8th centuries)), Joachim of Fiore (c. 1130/35-1201/2 AD), and the Oracles of Leo the Wise (866 - 912 AD). Where would the early Christian Cathari have taken the idea of the Tarot with its already highly developed meanings and symbolism that invoked such wrath from Rome? - The biblical Urim & Thummim (Lights & Perfections / Alephs & Tavs / Alphas & Omegas) were a set of 22 ancient (probably pre-Sumerian) Runes that spawned the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets and an array of similar later Rune sets throughout Europe and the Middle East. The 22 Major Arcana reflect symbolism and imagery from deep in the Hebrew Texts, themselves redactions of much older texts.

I worked in market research for a while and noticed that most of these archetypes are what advertising and branding are shaped around. So rather than just occult or mysticism, I think tarot speaks to people's psychology.

Im a young dude from houston texas and i learned how to read tarot cards with my sister, my dad would call it by the last meaning you mentioned sadly, I always looked at them they way the video explained it. A diplomatic occult art that has strange validity in matters. Awesome world we live in.

Excellent video! Thanks!

Fantastic work Gaia!

Makes sense. A lot of mystics use different things to do readings. Anything from Leaves to playing cards

Loved it!

is this a jojo reference?

Lol good job choosing Thoth as your first. Might wanna try Waite-smith instead

I got my tarot deck from my mum when I was a kid, it used to belong to her I dont know why she had it and where she got it. I found it from her table drawn and I asked her "Can i have this? What is this? " and she said "yes and its a tarot deck". When I was a kid I just played with the deck and tried to "fortune tell" by looking at images, but its interesting to learn more about tarot and i've always thought tarot is kinda facinating.

Thanks for the info

I love tarot: I’ve been studying tarot for 3 years next October. It’s amazing with how many meanings one card can mean! And it’s crazy with how accurate the cards are. I’m studying tarot card combinations but not sure if there’s a book out for 3/4 tarot card combinations out there.

Cards r what u make them, the person reading them is the one u must trust! It’s a connection u have, tapping into your consciousness and seeing what blocks you is how I do my personal readings! I like to heal thru the tarot cards they are just a guide for the messages I already receive! They are a tool to b used for the good of a persons forward movement, which is why u must be careful who u trust, a lot of ppl just do it for money! Which is sad as ever! They take advantage pf ppl it’s sad

Nice shirt Mr. Horowitz 🤘❤

great vid.

Mystic Mondays, my fav deck

i love the motherpeace deck!

The Marseille Tarot deck is a personal fav

That was groovy

Well So True! A great informative video🌠

this is quite interesting, I may get into tarot myself

Mitch, has a bad brains band tee on! I really like him already

Thanks

I just use a deck of bicycle cards and let me tell you I resonate so much with them. They’re not too fancy and they’re kind of like the backstreet cards.

There is so much more information out there concerning this topic. Especially the sacred and divine meanings of imagery, symbols, colors and numbers. 👀 But I guess its a "mystery" for a reason.

We do feel that it would be helpful if we included some information about the tarot and its general terminology and compared that with a general outline of the tarot from Ra’s view-point, the viewpoint which Ra shared with the Egyptians so many years ago. The following comparison deals only with the twenty-two Major Arcana since it was only these “concept complexes” which were used by Ra, and which were later drawn by Egyptian priests, to describe the process of the evolution of the mind, the body, and the spirit. The Court Arcana and the Minor Arcana were of other influences and were concerned primarily with the astrological approach to this study. Each card is described first by its Arcanum number, then by traditional terminology, and thirdly by Ra’s terminology. The cards upon which we originally questioned were not available for reprinting, so we have reproduced here the Major Arcana of the deck most closely resembling our first deck. These images are to be found in George Fathman’s, The Royal Road, A Study In The Egyptian Tarot; Key To Sacred Numbers And Symbols. Eagle Point, Oregon, 1951, Life Research Foundation. As you can see, the first seven cards of the Major Arcana were designed to describe the evolution of the mind, the second seven, the evolution of the body, and the third seven, the evolution of the spirit. Arcanum Number XXII is called The Choice, and the choice spoken of is the central choice each conscious seeker or adept makes as it strives to master the lessons of the third-density experience to seek in service to others or in service to self.

Hmmm! I read something in a book of the Kabbalah and the story of the Hebrew exodus out of Egypt. It mentioned that they carried with them the Egyptian tarot deck. Which was like a kind of Egyptian bible. I never forgot that as I was surprised. I wish I could remember the book I was reading at the time of my research on the Kabbalah.

Helen Farley's A Cultural History of the Tarot seems to be a major force to understand the transition from a card game to an esoteric tool.

this was a very informative video, and i agree that tarot is ultimately up to the reader, though i'm disappointed you used the g slur instead of the term the people use for themselves, Rromani i'm seeing in the comments that there is more to the story than this, and i'm curious what other historically minded occultists would recommend to get started on learning

I would love to listen, but the music is killing me.

And of course every card has a stand inspired by it in the world somewhere.

Can you tell please, what music did you use in this video? I would be very grateful 😊

I love the teleporting cat.

Beautiful ❤

...omg great video, I've been studying for over ten years and am a crowley man b igot the old big 78's a few other decks but the 78 is my companion deck and study tool and I have to say thank you for this it is very informative and I feel if I suppose this to some people it would break their stigmata instantly and in under ten minute's excellent job you guys. Gaia network you guys are something special...side note on eliphas levi I'm sure you know he was among the first to etch the great sabbatical goat I have also studied astrology and not till the last few years did I come to find out the goat he etched sits on our southern horizon. I have never found anything on this constellation but one day I'm sky gazing and there he was a perfect copy of the portrait in the sky at least the top half as clear as ursa major and minor. Is it possible that you will be looking into these figures of our past and aleister Crowley s work and of those whom he felt fraternally connected such as levi? I think you would be able to expound this information quite well as you have been consistently impressive ...also and what I think must have freaked him out is that the constellation is so anatomically perfect that he must have thought someone was panting pictures for us in the sky with stars for from what other perspective could this be possibly seen save for the exact opposite side of the mirror...thanks again, oh and it was from Moreno valley southern Ca that I witnessed the constellation I also own several copies of the actual portrait and when you side by side them you'll fall out of your shoes lol...

I had always heard you cant buy your own deck but it must be given, does anyone know where that comes from?

Love and light for everyone 💐 💕 ☀

why do you have the music so loud?

Us Romany Gypsies played a huge role in the development and spread of the Tarot. Remember that the term "Gypsy" is an abbreviation of "Egyptian". Unfortunately, the histories of the poorest people and their cultures are rarely well recorded. Dukkerin, or fortune telling was how the women in our families made a living for centuries.

What's the name of the deck that you purchased? It looks wonderful.

why do the tarot readers call unto spirits? are they aware, that they are unclean spirits?

When I sold tarot decks to newbies - I would tell them to get a deck with the most books. Like the Rider/Waite decks and that way if your intuition is off or you are just learning you will get a general overview of what the deck is trying to communicate with you or others. Cause when I did come across the many that bought a deck off of intuition and "because the deck was pretty" became frustrated and could not decipher them and did not learn from them or gave the wrong advice from them. I.E MA13 - am I gonna die?

The well respected Rorschach Inkblots Test was originally a parlor game called "Blotto"! Following John Exner's standardization, the Rorschach has reclaimed it's validity!

Highly interesting

Thanksss

What do you do with the tarot cards

anyone else notices the ghost woman behind our friend explaining the decks?

Well explain.😎

5:08 What is the name of the deck with the red border and white dragon?

I find it intresting

Looked at a pack tarot cards online. Never watched a video on them. This shows up on my recommendations -.-

oh wow. diz is awesomazing history indeed. simi-chan still has a lot to learn but she'll get der. 💗🤩😍😘🌟🤗❤️

I chose a deck with various wild animals representing the symbols - adds to the allegory.

So in other words. Rider waite deck is easier to decipher due to its rich symbolism?

Hmmm, Thoth deck is a difficult deck to read, even for the experienced reader. Wouldn't be my choice for a beginner. Good luck. And Blessings.

Always been interested in Tarot but never bought a Deck as felt the artwork on Original Rider Waite deck was a little dated.

Mitch Horowitz rocking the 'Bad Brains' shirt !!

No talks about Lenormand cards? These are probably the most used. And what about the normal game cards that can also be used for telling what's going to happen?

Look for Alejandro Jodorosky, he has another point witch he has a masters degree on since he has study for the last 50 plus years!

Am I the only one not familiar with the deck she chose at the end of the video? I would love to know what it is.

I did not notice that cat till half way thru the video. That man is sneaky

interesting information. thank you. so what is the difference then between tarot and angel and oracle cards. ?

does anyone call them coins? or are they usually only referred to as pentacles?

The music is so distracting

The emphasis on the deck is just as strong and as important as the Diviner, brujo, reader..teller.

I have been on a very long journey of knowledge, trying to gather as much information about everyone as I can. And lately, I've been obsessed about lost civilizations and lost technology. The extremely advanced people who lived before the cataclysm that happened 12,000 years ago, saw deeper meaning in the Earth itself, the Moon, stars, the Sun, how the planets move, the whole solar system! And these planets and the Sun became their gods. It was what ruled everything around them. They had the period of the lion, the period of the ram, the bull, the dishes, etc, etc. They were building megalithic structures for the equinoxes! They also, when faced with the cataclysm and so many of the people died and much of their knowledge and culture was lost, they still tried to make sure that their knowledge got transferred into the future. They did so by storytelling, games, writings and images. I learned that many of the images of the Tarot cards, has direct links to the very, very ancient civilizations.

ZA WARUDO

I'm just here to name my stand

the sound is horrible on this video

did they called the pentacles coins? 😅 is it correct to call it like this??

Big up the Bad Brains tee! G'wan Lad!

So is it brujeria or not?

Can’t wait till my 1st edition charizard is used to predict the future

tarot cards are mentioned in the law of One. that puts them much older.

She picked Crowleys deck

Ahhhh yes, Italy. How we love your terrifying history

I just noticed the cat at 4:07 mark when it started to groom it self.

Literally popped a gummy bear in my mouth the moment it cut to this shot 7:03.

Mitch Horowitz is Awesomeness in the flesh!!🙏👌

3:10 what are these symbols called? Alchemichal?

In my opinion the Tarot is about self mastery you can use for fortune telling, but they are about the spiritual journey, self awareness, enlightenment the seven universal laws govrens those cards idk there is a power to them because when I am studying the cards I can barely write my notes and even handling the cards I feel a power in my hands those are mid evil image of instance the queen of wand represent the witch, you see her cat and she holes her wand which is a long stick with the other back in the days a wand could be represented by a broom as well witches are not bad they have been given the wrong out look they represent longevity and wisdom the crone

he didn't really explain the "games" portion (did they use it to predict the present and future and past)? did someone purposely study the journey of life and compile it into a deck as per their interpretation or did it accidentally happen or was it based on the hierarchies of society as in the royals, kings, queens, knights, popes (since religion was the rule of law & government back then)?

If you reverse the o and the a you get the anglicized version of the Hebrew word Torat - it means 'Laws'. The Tarot we have in our day (the classical Tarot) comes from the Hebrew Torah - There is a set of images to be found in the letters. This is provable.