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The Tarot: A Brief Overview - Secret Teachings

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Channel: Proper Gander · 2016 · Education

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A brief video about Tarot cards for beginners, with further explanation by Michael Tsarion.  The tarot is a pack of playing cards (most commonly numbering 78), used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot. From the late 18th century until the present time the tarot has also found use by mystics and occultists for tarot card reading and divination.

Like the common deck of playing cards, the tarot has four suits (which vary by region, being the French suits in Northern Europe, the Latin suits in Southern Europe, and the German suits in Central Europe). Each of these suits has pip cards numbering from one (or Ace) to ten and four face cards (King, Queen, Knight, and Jack/Knave) for a total of 14 cards. In addition, the tarot has a separate 21-card trump suit and a single card known as the Fool. Depending on the game, the Fool may act as the top trump or may be played to avoid following suit.

François Rabelais gives tarau as the name of one of the games played by Gargantua in his Gargantua and Pantagruel.  This is likely the earliest attestation of the French form of the name.  Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play card games. In English-speaking countries, where these games are largely unplayed, tarot cards are now used primarily for divinatory purposes. Occultists call the trump cards and the Fool "the major arcana" while the ten pip and four court cards in each suit are called minor arcana. The cards are traced by some occult writers to ancient Egypt or the Kabbalah but there is no documented evidence of such origins or of the usage of tarot for divination or Tarot card reading before the 18th century.

Secret Teachings: A series of videos inspired by Manly P. Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages.

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Michael Tsarion - http://www.michaeltsarion.com/
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Tarot - Crystalinks - http://www.crystalinks.com/tarot.html
Path of the Fool - http://www.amazon.ca/Path-Fool-Meanings-Major-Arcana-ebook/dp/B00BCY1F7U
Michael Tsarion on Tarot Forum - http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=211142
The Ink Blot - http://theinkblot.com/
Paychic Attack - http://www.brothermichael.org.uk/skills/protection.htm
Jungian Archetypes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_archetypes
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Michael Tsarion on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MichaelTsarion/
Modern Knowledge - Path of the Fool - http://www.modernknowledge.ca/path-of-the-fool.html

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