- The
Major Arcana are the
named cards in a
cartomantic tarot pack.
There are
usually 22 such
cards in a
standard 78-card pack,
typically numbered from...
- In France, the 32-card
piquet stripped deck is most
typically used in
cartomantic readings,
although the 52 card deck can also be used. (A
piquet deck...
- Arcana,
sometimes known as the
Lesser Arcana, are the suit
cards in a
cartomantic tarot deck.
Ordinary tarot cards first appeared in
northern Italy in...
- The Fool is one of the 78
cards in a
tarot deck. Traditionally, it is the
lowest of the 22
trump cards, in
tarot card
reading called the 22
Major Arcana...
- The High
Priestess (II) is the
second Major Arcana card in
cartomantic Tarot decks. It is
based on the 2nd
trump of
Tarot card packs. In the
first Tarot...
-
entirely by de Guaita,
Wirth designed the
first neo-occultist
cartomantic deck (and
first cartomantic deck not
derived from Etteilla's
Egyptian deck). Released...
- of
swords is one of the four
suits of the
Minor Arcana in a 78-card
cartomantic tarot deck. It is
derived from the suit used in Latin-suited playing...
- de
Guaita and in 1889 he created,
under the
guidance of de Guaita, a
cartomantic Tarot consisting only of the twenty-two
Major Arcana.
Known as "Les 22...
-
cards used from the mid-15th
century to play
games and, later, also for
cartomantic packs of
cards used for divination.
Tarot may also
refer to:
Tarot card...
-
named "La Mort" in
French and
named "Death" in English. In many
modern cartomantic tarot decks (e.g., Rider–Waite), the XIII card is
named Death. The names...
