from Latin divinare "to foresee, to be inspired by a god" ,related to divinus, divine
Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation
by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual as a systematic method with…
from Latin divinare "to foresee, to be inspired by a god" ,related to divinus, divine
Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation
by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual as a systematic method with which
to organize what appear to be disjointed, random facets of existence
such that they provide insight into a problem at hand
1400's Europe Tarot, Like common playing cards were ONLY used to play games such as Italian tarocchini, French tarot and Austrian Königrufen. Many of these tarot card games are still played today. BUT
References to the Tarot as a social plague happened then for ALL card games by prominent Protestant clerics and freemasons
1750 an anonymous manuscript documents rudimentary divinatory meanings for the cards of the Tarocco Bolognese.
1760 fortune telling by cards becomes common or is older , 1300?
1785 French occultist "Etteilla" Jean-Baptiste Alliette was the first to popularise tarot divination to a wide audience
1789 Etteilla was the first to issue Occult tarot decks specifically designed for occult purposes based on correspondences between, tarot, astrology, the classical elements & 4 humors
1870 French author Jean-Baptiste Pitois published The History and Practice of Magic & Tarot packs began to be used in parallel for divination in the form of tarotology and cartomancy
to gain insight into the past, present or future by formulating a question, then drawing and interpreting cards the reader removes cards at random and
assigns significance to them based on the order they were chosen
BUT
inspite of some occult writers tracing Them to ancient Egypt or the Kabbalah there is no documented evidence of a tarot connection or for divination before 1750
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_tarot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etteilla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot#Esoteric_tarot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Pitois
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