Authored by: Nidhi Mangal, Tarot Card Reader at the All India Institute of Occult Science, founded by Gurudev Shrie Kashyap ...

Cards, along with postage stamps and tapestries, are these portable image carriers. Tarot is an excellent example. Take the way the Neoclassical imagery in the Sola Busca tarot of 15th-century ...

While tarot cards were initially used for playing games and as a status symbol, their association with the occult and divination practices began to emerge in the late 18th century. French ...

Practiced in esoteric pursuits including Kabbala and Rosicrucianism, Court de Gébelin sought meaning in the cards’ strange symbolism. His occult interpretations became the basis for tarot’s ...