Question 1

What is Tarot?

Accepted Answer

Tarot is a 78-card deck, 22 major and 56 minor cards, drawn into positions and read for a question. It is used to see where a question stands, what is in the way and which way it may go, more a mirror for sorting your thoughts than a forecast.

Question 2

How is Tarot worked out?

Accepted Answer

After shuffling, one to thirteen cards are drawn into a spread, each upright or reversed. Each card is read by its position and meaning, then the whole spread by its shape: how many majors, how many reversals, which suit dominates. Numbering follows the Waite deck.

Question 3

What can Tarot show?

Accepted Answer

Where the matter is stuck, which area of life weighs most in the spread, the resistance shown by reversals, and one thing you could do first.

Question 4

Can Tarot be read without a birth time?

Accepted Answer

Drawing needs no birth data; it reads your question. The separate birth card adds your birth month, day and year, and needs no birth time.

Question 5

How is Tarot different from Oracle?

Accepted Answer

Tarot has a fixed 78-card structure with majors, four suits and numbers, each with its own tradition. Oracle decks are set by their authors, so tarot can read combinations of suit and number while an oracle card is mostly read as its own sentence.

Question 6

Where does Tarot come from?

Accepted Answer

Tarot appeared in fifteenth-century Italy as a card game and was first used for divination in France in the late eighteenth century. The most common card meanings today come from the Waite deck of the early twentieth century; birth cards are a modern author's method.

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