History Of The Tarot Reader
Posted on 27. Aug, 2011 by Mystic Sharon in Tarot Reader
Jean-Baptiste Alliette, known in occult circles by the name Etteilla, was the originator of the occult use of the Tarot. Before that, Tarot was a type of card game played by French nobility. Etteilla adapted the cards to occult use and ushered in a way of divination and interpretation using the Tarot. Etteilla was the first known Tarot reader in history. Etteilla’s Tarot deck was made of 78 cards, each of which had a meaning that related back to the Book of Thoth and ancient Egypt.
The card deck itself is split into two primary sections. The first is called the Major Arcana. This translated to “greater secrets” and are also referred to as trump cards. These cards do not have suits but each of them does have a specific representation. A sample of some of the representations of the cards are: The Empress, The Chariot, The Sun, The Fool, and The Devil. There are many more but these are a sample of the types of cards found in the Major Arcana.
The Minor Arcana is translated as “lesser secrets”. This deck has 56 cards. Within the 56 cards are ten cards with numbers and 4 cards that represent the royal court. Of these fourteen cards there is four of each suit.
The Psychic Tarot reader became increasingly prevalent with the publication of a book called Le Monde Primitif by a Swiss clergyman known as Antoine Cour de Gebelin. This book solidified the acceptance of the religious symbolism between the Tarot and the mysteries of the book of Toth and of Isis. In his book Gelelin also connected the root of the word Tarot to the ancient Egyptian word for Road. Thus he made the argument in the book that the Tarot represented the Royal Road of knowledge and wisdom.
His book also made the case that his contemporary psychic Tarot reader were descendants from ancient Egypt and that they were responsible for bringing Tarot cards to the continent of Europe. Thus he argued that their psychic reading could be relied upon as being from divined ancient Egyptian sources. Over time archaeologists deciphered ancient Egyptian ruins to understand that the Tarot cards were not part of the Egyptian tradition. But the Tarot reader was firmly entrenched and accepted into society and as such the Tarot cards remained a popular method of divination for the psychic reader.
Tarot cards were later popularized by their incorporation into two famous 16th century novels. In one such novel the characters were able to use Tarot to move through time and have supernatural powers. They could control the elements and even create matter. In the second novel the Tarot reader are instrumental in helping a group of travelers communicate to each other and share extraordinarily adventures they had experienced.
In the twentieth century Carl Jung, the psychoanalyst, said the Tarot reader had a great deal of symbolic meaning in helping people to understand their situations and circumstance. The symbolism to Jung represented archetypes that would help people to identify who they were inside. This was a way for them to know who they were and understand how to heal themselves. Jung was using the Tarot as a way for patients to heal by latching on to the strong identities within the Tarot archetypes.
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