5 myths about tarot... and some truths

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5 Myths About Tarot

And some truths…

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Myth:

When the Death Card Appears, Someone’s Gonna Die

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FactWhen the death card appears in books and TV, yes, someone will die.

But for a tarot reader, the death card almost never means physical death. It’s usually symbolic – the death of a relationship, of a job, of a way of life.

The Death Card, from the Visconti-Sforza deck, circa 1450.

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Myth:The Cards Come from Ancient Egypt

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There’s no evidence to support this.

Playing cards likely originated in the Middle East, the first known 5-suited Tarot cards came from Renaissance Italy, and were used in a card game called Tarocchi. Much of the imagery in current decks stems from that period.

The Tarocchi Players. Fresco from the Casa Borromeo, in Milan, likely painted in the 1440s.

Fact:

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Myth:Tarot Cards are Satanic

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There is a devil card. But images on the original tarot decks from Renaissance Italy display Christian allegories, and virtues such as temperance and strength. There‘s even a pope.

Some speculate the 5th suit of tarot trumps was modeled on the Italian “triumph” morality parades of that time period.

Devil card from the tarot deck of Jean Dodal, dating from 1701-1715.

Fact:

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Myth:Tarot Cards are Magic

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The cards are paper and ink. What you do with them is entirelyup to you.

Artist unknown. Prince Castracani Fibbia (1360-1419) with a deck of Tarot cards, tarocco bolognese. Date: 1600s

Fact:

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Myth:

You Can’t Buy Your Own Cards. They Must Be a Gift

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Phooey. If I waited for someone to gift a deck of tarot cards to me, I’d never have gotten started. The cards you buy for yourself work just fine.

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The End…?When Riga Hayworth finds a dead body in her bedroom a week before her wedding, it’s par for the course. When the corpse drives off with her fiancée… That’s a problem.

Riga knows dead. More intimately than she’d like. So when a murdered photographer gets up and walks away, she’s believes there’s necromancy afoot. And when she discovers that several of her wedding guests are under the influence of dark magic, she’s certain.

But how can she catch a killer and stop a necromancer when even her nearest and dearest are lying to her?

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