What exactly is Cartomancy? The technique of ascertaining (or fossicking for) one's lot or some other situation, by means of seemingly random selections and set-out of cards in a prefigured design.
Do they work? Certain non-believers claim it's balderdash!. They claim it's completely fraudulent and mercilessly targeting the inexperienced, the impressionable and the innocent.
Now you would have to be less than three years of age not to have heard of the Tarot. In which case it is highly unlikely you could be reading this. (unless you're a junior genius, where you'd probably already know all about this topic anyway)
So I really believe most would be familiar with the basic tenets of the Tarot. There is a shipload of information out there and I won't bore you with the details here.
So does it hold water, babe?
You want your fortune told, right? You want your future predicted, right? You want a little more control of your life, right? Seems everyone agues excitedly as to exactly how the Tarot works, or if in fact it works at all.
Does the arrangement somehow stimulate dormant intuitive or psychic abilities in those so inclined? Does the questioning arouse invisible outside intelligences; fairies, elves, earth spirits, unearthly souls, demi-gods who directly or indirectly interpose to act upon circumstances in a spiritual manner? Or is this a universe of 'no accidents' where the purposeful process of querying creates a simultaneously timed physical event beyond the chaos theory?
The major arcana particularly, claimed by some to be a wormhole into our subconscious, due somewhat to prototypical patterns, has been linked in an idealogical manner to the psychology of Carl Jung's collective unconscious.
Sorry, but for the genuine secret to the Tarot to be fully appreciated we'll need to do a little backwards time-travel.
Maestro, a little backwards track, if you please
Under hazy circumstances, a 4 suited playing card pack first appeared in Europe in the 1370's, probably in Italy or Spain. This exhibited a striking resemblance to the modern playing card pack we use today. Then, in Italy in the 1430's, a an additional suit of 21 beautifully adorned cards called trionfi ('triumphs') plus an specific card called matto ('the fool') were appended to this pack. No, 'the fool' was NOT the predecessor of the modern joker, which was created separately in the late 19th century, as a euchre game card, of a jack with no suit.
Similar to the Mardi Gras of the modern era, the figure drawings in the trionfi, most likely represented mascots in medieval re-enactments of triumphal Roman street parades. The reason for the trionfi was to function as a master suit, becoming 'trumps' or a suit of 'triumphs'. Played by 3 or 4 , sometimes 5 players, these 'tarot games' consisted of informal team-ups directed towards the winning player in each deal.
So the upshot is; until about 1780 in France, and based upon the Venetian or the Piedmontese tarot, tarot was a game. It had not a sausage of spirituality. It didn't know a feather from a furlong.
Gotta be wrong
Here, I'll say it again - slower. Until just 230 years ago, the tarot was played as a game, possibly by children, not too differently from say our Canasta. It was never intended to be a tool for foretelling, a soothsayer. It is NOT a purpose-built tool!! It's a debauched game. Emphatically!
You can argue all you want about its epidemic popularity, the mountains of volumes of literature written on it, the testimonials to its effectiveness, however once compared to say Crystalomancy, the Runes, or the I-Ching, the Tarot's origins, genealogy and pedigree is in a state of rampant confusion.
Not a mere child of just 230, The I-Ching is a age-old spiritual master key of some 6,000 years, probably the first transcribed document in history, created wholly and solely for the purpose of functioning as an ORACLE. It is imbued with thousands, not merely a couple of hundred years of vibrational human consciousness. It is truly an truly ancient treasure.
But steady on, isn't this to do with the wonder of Tarot?.
So . . .
The answer is in what is really real
There is another explanation however that I ascribe to. It refers to the principle that we are all the masters of our own fate. We create our lives for ourselves according to what we predominantly desire or believe. The world revolves around each of us. (to each of us). We are thus egocentric.
So that when a possible circumstance, depicted by the cards, is suggested by the card reader, our very powerful association 'reflex' kicks in full force, scans our life and makes every attempt to coordinate the broad-brush card situation with our 'real-life' situation. Therefore we happen upon what appears to be a train of current happenings that seem to match. We, together with certain potency we've given over to the reader, then trust the reading depicts an accurate portrayal of our lifestyle.
The card reader will bring down his/her final judgment in our now current atmosphere of near-perfect trust. In our now conditioned self, we believe this to be a state of physical reality.
Let me introduce our star performer, our very own S.F.P.
Remember what I said about us being the master of our fate? We take the powerful belief of the reading outcome and 'force' it to become a life reality. That's what we now do.
In other words we actually create the reality as prophesied by the cards. Incredible, no? This is what is known as a guess what? A self-fulfilling prophesy. So is this fraud? No, it's just another example of the amazing power of the mind.
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