Zitat des Tages über Tarot:
Actually, I believe in everything, including astrology and tarot cards. All of it is just another way for people to try and tighten the link to the spirits in our universe. I believe it exists for all people.
According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?
I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.
Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
Tarot is just stories on cards.
Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.
I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.
I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.
The tarot is sacred.
My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
