The Little Known History of Tarot
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Throughout its history, tarot has has been associated with various ancient mystery schools and esoteric ideologies. However, evidence points to a deck of cards that wasn’t used exclusively for fortune telling until centuries after its creation. Occult historian and author Mitch Horowitz sheds some light on how this powerful tool transitioned from an early version of bridge to a mystical divination tool. Special thanks to Lighthouse Bookstore in Boulder, Colorado and to Mitch Horowitz.
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Tarot - I am no expert on this - one thing I do know - it all depends on the readers consciousness . Make sure the reader cares about people and has a good heart - thoughts & words carry lots of power. This applies to choosing a doctor , a therapist , a spiritual guide , and all the people you surround yourself with .
Very interesting points . It makes sense .
I completely agree ! I wanna repost this comment on my channel. More people
need to know this
@@camillionnn3525 no problem , some one explained this to me and it’s made a difference in my life
I agree! I read tarot for friends and family and i always try to be as clear and on point as possible. Don't get someone that's just in it for the money, and never ignore your intuition. If you feel like someone isn't be honest, chances are you're right.
Still no super natural stuff going on here. Just silly beliefs
I hope this happens with Yu-Gi-Oh decks in the next 100 years
Izzy Sauls that would be epic and also extremely confusing for future generations. Haha
Im not even kidding I was thinking the exact same thing
Back in my day we played with Pokemon and we were happy Damn kids yugizo
Jokes on you. I already use my YuGiOh Spellbook deck for fortune telling.
Exodia
As much as I love Victorianism, we really do have to blame the Victorians for misappropriating, misinterpreting, or otherwise forever altering much of our perception of spirituality, the occult, mysticism, and so on. Even the concept of the pentagram having positive or negative connotations based on which direction the point is pointing (right side up or upside-down) is a decidedly Victorian invention.
A lot of what we take as normal was forged in Victorian times.. did you know they did the first porno? With a vacuum cleaner? Oh yeah - I was shocked too that they had vacuum cleaners.. right? Wtf?
@@thegoodthebadandtheugly579 first porno? I would like to know more about that LOL I can’t imagine
If all the books on Tarot have different opinions on it's origin and meaning then who's to say this guy's explanation is 100% accurate?
It’s not, actually. They’re ignoring how tarot cards were always mystical from the beginning of their existence, as they were used for games plus fortune-telling too.
It depends on what type of instruction the person has attained. A doctor knows a lot more than someone that read a book of medicine and believes to be an expert
there are documentations found from historians, they are available in some Universities and museums. The only documentations we found are related to Italians tarot deck.
Mitch Horowitz knows his stuff.
The Tarot actually go very far back in time. There isnt any recorded history of it because these secrets were kept from the masses and only kept in small circles of adepts. I made a video on the origins of the tarot. Go check it out to find out :)
I love the cat napping on the chair in the background! Who else thinks that's one who really has all the answers? 😜😽
I bought my first Tarot deck at 17. There was only the Rider-Waite deck available at that time. I studied Astrology metaphysics Tibetan Buddhism Jungian Psychology shamanism and then rediscovered the Tarot and studied with two teachers for about a year and a half regularly. I became a pro in July 1991 and here I am. The Tarot is a symbolic path that the soul encounters in 22 archetypal stages from 0 The Fool to The World and back again #22 The Fool. I intuitively believe that the Tarot evolved from the ancient metaphysical teachings which were secret teachings encoded in symbols and the 4 elements and were passed on verbally than written down. The system wherever it came from correspond completely with the Hebrew Alphabet and The Tree of Life. It is also anti-church anarchy. Because it is archetypal it can morph to fit into any system applied to it. It is a mystery occult that can't completely be explained.
I worked in market research for a while and noticed that most of these archetypes are what advertising and branding are shaped around. So rather than just occult or mysticism, I think tarot speaks to people's psychology.
I’m late here. But, I own several decks because I love to learn about different illustrations of the same “meaning.” At the very, very end of your video you hit the nail on the head: what speaks to you. When it comes to choosing a deck you must go with your intuition and pick the deck that you simply understand. It’s also important to understand where Tarot originates from (loosely) and this was covered very well in your Video. The Tarot Bible by Sarah Bartlett is an amazing book that covers the origin in great detail along with other much needed info for those wanting to grasp the full info of understanding tarot and learning how to read cards without a reference book. Thanks for sharing this!!!!
I love tarot and catormancy. I actually started learning astrology first and birth chart readings and now learning catormancy. After listening to the story of the fools journey I connected to the tarot really well and I am learning lenormand as well.
Get into numerology as well, something for beginners should be enough. It will help you with the readings and understanding the cards better.
Cards were made for divination purposes in the beginning Not for games of chance or entertainment.
However in some areas religious zealots were always on a witch hunt
So if approached was better to say we are playing games!
Dice, Dominoes, and playing cards were in fact invented for Divination. This makes it kind of difficult to break the connection between cards and Divination.
Makes sense.
Do you have a source for that then? Or are you just projecting your own wishes on to the past?
Yea and dice and tea leaves, etc... allot easier to "camoflauge" what's actually going on lol. Drukama uploaded an interesting thing about tarot also check it out if you can find it.
Tarot was always for divination plus games. Always.
The history of the Tarot goes much further than the 15th century, they are referenced by the Cathars (Catharism (11th - 14th Century France) and Cathari (4th - 8th centuries)), Joachim of Fiore (c. 1130/35-1201/2 AD), and the Oracles of Leo the Wise (866 - 912 AD). Where would the early Christian Cathari have taken the idea of the Tarot with its already highly developed meanings and symbolism that invoked such wrath from Rome? - The biblical Urim & Thummim (Lights & Perfections / Alephs & Tavs / Alphas & Omegas) were a set of 22 ancient (probably pre-Sumerian) Runes that spawned the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets and an array of similar later Rune sets throughout Europe and the Middle East. The 22 Major Arcana reflect symbolism and imagery from deep in the Hebrew Texts, themselves redactions of much older texts.
Only people who actually practice Peganism KNOW & UNDERSTAND this.
the paper was invented later than those times and it took some time too to develop an industrial way of producing tarot decks.
Im a young dude from houston texas and i learned how to read tarot cards with my sister, my dad would call it by the last meaning you mentioned sadly, I always looked at them they way the video explained it. A diplomatic occult art that has strange validity in matters. Awesome world we live in.
nick wheelr Fellow Houstonian 👍🏼
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Tarot or Playing Cards are in 4 suits according to 4 elements Earth Water Fire & Air and are of 52 cards or 52 weeks in a year. Tarot has 4 more or Major Arcane that holds on the rest 52 cards.
So of course these cards resonates with all of us.
So colors, visuals, images are cruicial relevant in mysticism or Tarot but people tend to naturally resonates with the numbers.
Maths and numbers will always be universal
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Makes sense. A lot of mystics use different things to do readings. Anything from Leaves to playing cards
I love that it started out as bridge basically, what a wild and crazy ride Tarot took
I would say the Tarot began in the West in the 1400, but the symbolism existed before then.
Superwave: Project Camelot interviews Dr. Paul Laviolette, 1:24:24
I had been developing sub quantum kinetics for many years,
I’d basically written up the early papers at which point I was ready to submit
to a few journals. At the same time I
was studying ancient lore and back in 1975 had discovered that the tarot
encodes concepts very similar to what I was talking about in the physics and I
did take a class in Cambridge Massachusetts on the tarot and as the teacher was
going through each of the arcanum; the tarot is a set of 22 cards that they use
in fortune telling but they date back to the middle ages from the gypsies, the
earliest decks are attributed to the gypsies which had migrated from India
through Egypt and esoteric scholars believe that they had picked up the
concepts from the Egyptian priests prior to the collapse of the priesthood. In the very early days in the kingdoms of
Egypt the priests were in power and they had an indoctrination into this ancient
science that explained how the universe was created and these concepts were
Frescos that were on the wall of the chamber that the new priests were brought
in and taught the meanings, that were later put into the tarot deck.
I got my tarot deck from my mum when I was a kid, it used to belong to her I dont know why she had it and where she got it. I found it from her table drawn and I asked her "Can i have this? What is this? " and she said "yes and its a tarot deck". When I was a kid I just played with the deck and tried to "fortune tell" by looking at images, but its interesting to learn more about tarot and i've always thought tarot is kinda facinating.
Us Romany Gypsies played a huge role in the development and spread of the Tarot. Remember that the term "Gypsy" is an abbreviation of "Egyptian". Unfortunately, the histories of the poorest people and their cultures are rarely well recorded. Dukkerin, or fortune telling was how the women in our families made a living for centuries.
Lol good job choosing Thoth as your first. Might wanna try Waite-smith instead
Waite smith is a lot easier to read for beginners. All the other modern decks like the cat one are more difficult.
This was a great video! Informative and I learned so much. Well done! 🌟🌟😲
I just use a deck of bicycle cards and let me tell you I resonate so much with them. They’re not too fancy and they’re kind of like the backstreet cards.
Years ago, I used to get my readings from a woman who did just that; read with common playing cards. She was an amazing reader, too.
This does make sense, in that our common playing cards are a DIRECT expression of the tarot.
Helen Farley's A Cultural History of the Tarot seems to be a major force to understand the transition from a card game to an esoteric tool.
Cards r what u make them, the person reading them is the one u must trust! It’s a connection u have, tapping into your consciousness and seeing what blocks you is how I do my personal readings! I like to heal thru the tarot cards they are just a guide for the messages I already receive! They are a tool to b used for the good of a persons forward movement, which is why u must be careful who u trust, a lot of ppl just do it for money! Which is sad as ever! They take advantage pf ppl it’s sad
is this a jojo reference?
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I love tarot: I’ve been studying tarot for 3 years next October. It’s amazing with how many meanings one card can mean! And it’s crazy with how accurate the cards are. I’m studying tarot card combinations but not sure if there’s a book out for 3/4 tarot card combinations out there.
Hmmm! I read something in a book of the Kabbalah and the story of the Hebrew exodus out of Egypt. It mentioned that they carried with them the Egyptian tarot deck. Which was like a kind of Egyptian bible. I never forgot that as I was surprised. I wish I could remember the book I was reading at the time of my research on the Kabbalah.
There is so much more information out there concerning this topic. Especially the sacred and divine meanings of imagery, symbols, colors and numbers. 👀 But I guess its a "mystery" for a reason.
this was a very informative video, and i agree that tarot is ultimately up to the reader, though i'm disappointed you used the g slur instead of the term the people use for themselves, Rromani
i'm seeing in the comments that there is more to the story than this, and i'm curious what other historically minded occultists would recommend to get started on learning
Thank you for mentioning the slur...I am putting together a playlist of what tarot really is, and less than a minute in, an outdated slur that was known to be outdated and a slur all the way back when this video was made in 2018. I will keep watching to see if it deserves to be in my playlist, maybe make a side note in the description box of the playlist about it being unacceptable. But man, 2018, less than a minute in, they should've known better.
I have been on a very long journey of knowledge, trying to gather as much information about everyone as I can. And lately, I've been obsessed about lost civilizations and lost technology. The extremely advanced people who lived before the cataclysm that happened 12,000 years ago, saw deeper meaning in the Earth itself, the Moon, stars, the Sun, how the planets move, the whole solar system! And these planets and the Sun became their gods. It was what ruled everything around them. They had the period of the lion, the period of the ram, the bull, the dishes, etc, etc. They were building megalithic structures for the equinoxes! They also, when faced with the cataclysm and so many of the people died and much of their knowledge and culture was lost, they still tried to make sure that their knowledge got transferred into the future. They did so by storytelling, games, writings and images. I learned that many of the images of the Tarot cards, has direct links to the very, very ancient civilizations.
And of course every card has a stand inspired by it in the world somewhere.
The music is so distracting
Hmmm, Thoth deck is a difficult deck to read, even for the experienced reader. Wouldn't be my choice for a beginner. Good luck. And Blessings.
Great video ,thanks for sharing :)
I would love to listen, but the music is killing me.
The well respected Rorschach Inkblots Test was originally a parlor game called "Blotto"! Following John Exner's standardization, the Rorschach has reclaimed it's validity!
why do the tarot readers call unto spirits? are they aware, that they are unclean spirits?
When I sold tarot decks to newbies - I would tell them to get a deck with the most books. Like the Rider/Waite decks and that way if your intuition is off or you are just learning you will get a general overview of what the deck is trying to communicate with you or others. Cause when I did come across the many that bought a deck off of intuition and "because the deck was pretty" became frustrated and could not decipher them and did not learn from them or gave the wrong advice from them. I.E MA13 - am I gonna die?
Valyn McNeil - We are all gonna die.. who would worry about that
why do you have the music so loud?
I had to stop watching because of the loud music. I couldn't understand what she was saying
Because this one goes up to eleven
what?
Donald Schoenroth Most only go up to ten but this one goes to eleven.
I agree! This is the 3rd or 4th video I've tried to watch today involving noisy music with some dim narration accompaniment
Look for Alejandro Jodorosky, he has another point witch he has a masters degree on since he has study for the last 50 plus years!
The first two pre-tarot decks (Mantegna and Sola-Busca) were Magic decks, not games. Tarot has magic roots.
nanomyou5 agreed!🙏👁️
Magic roots indeed. Beautiful artwork of rabbits in hats, straight jackets, assistants sawed in half, never ending handkerchiefs, vanishing coins, etc. on the cards. There were even signature David Blaine, Chris Angel, and Harry Houdini decks.
KT GE My favourites are the Blue Eyes White Dragon and the Voldemort cards. It's a shame their affects were rendered useless after the last expansion pack came out.
We do feel that it would be helpful if we included some information about
the tarot and its general terminology and compared that with a general
outline of the tarot from Ra’s view-point, the viewpoint which Ra shared
with the Egyptians so many years ago. The following comparison deals only
with the twenty-two Major Arcana since it was only these “concept
complexes” which were used by Ra, and which were later drawn by
Egyptian priests, to describe the process of the evolution of the mind, the
body, and the spirit. The Court Arcana and the Minor Arcana were of other
influences and were concerned primarily with the astrological approach to
this study. Each card is described first by its Arcanum number, then by
traditional terminology, and thirdly by Ra’s terminology.
The cards upon which we originally questioned were not available for
reprinting, so we have reproduced here the Major Arcana of the deck most
closely resembling our first deck. These images are to be found in George
Fathman’s, The Royal Road, A Study In The Egyptian Tarot; Key To Sacred
Numbers And Symbols. Eagle Point, Oregon, 1951, Life Research
Foundation.
As you can see, the first seven cards of the Major Arcana were designed to
describe the evolution of the mind, the second seven, the evolution of the
body, and the third seven, the evolution of the spirit. Arcanum Number
XXII is called The Choice, and the choice spoken of is the central choice
each conscious seeker or adept makes as it strives to master the lessons of the
third-density experience to seek in service to others or in service to self.
Tarot cards have origins back to Egyptian times!
It wasn't quite understood when they were found...that's why they "thought" it was a "GAME"!!
We must not forget that they were a much advanced civilization.
The Marseille Tarot deck is a personal fav
I personally love Tarot cards, I don't believe in any of the mystical stuff, but the art is so archetypal. Great little video, thanks!
That’s completely dumb if you don’t correspond it too mysticism tarot is trash compared to anything else litteraly that exist n this planet this the universe it’s the most useless the compared next to using a dr Seuss book to try and gain some sort of knowledge .
A big thanks to Katherine Axiotis and others at Gaia for beautiful production. Bravo.
Mitch Horowitz I love following you Mitch. FB, you tube, your books. You are damn genuine. You Introduced me to Neville Goddard.
So weird... I LITERALLY finished "The Miracle Club" today and I found you interviewed on a random you tube video. Synchronicity?
I chose a deck with various wild animals representing the symbols - adds to the allegory.
Mitch, has a bad brains band tee on! I really like him already
Fantastic work Gaia!
Love and light for everyone 💐 💕 ☀
Am I the only one not familiar with the deck she chose at the end of the video? I would love to know what it is.
anyone else notices the ghost woman behind our friend explaining the decks?
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not like it was hidden
Nice shirt Mr. Horowitz 🤘❤
This is incorrect info from Horowitz .
1. The Sola Busca
2. Writings of a spanish monk in the 1300s discussing what Levi wrote about .
3. Visconti founded a esoteric University in Milan in the 1400s .
4. A chinese card game in the 10th century with a lovers card .
Do your own research and delve deep
Thanks
In my opinion the Tarot is about self mastery you can use for fortune telling, but they are about the spiritual journey, self awareness, enlightenment the seven universal laws govrens those cards idk there is a power to them because when I am studying the cards I can barely write my notes and even handling the cards I feel a power in my hands those are mid evil image of instance the queen of wand represent the witch, you see her cat and she holes her wand which is a long stick with the other back in the days a wand could be represented by a broom as well witches are not bad they have been given the wrong out look they represent longevity and wisdom the crone
This was great! Thank you!
oh wow. diz is awesomazing history indeed.
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Unfortunately, the music is too loud, for your sweet lovely voice to be heard.
Please, on your next video, either put no music, or have the volume down, just enough to hear, but not block your voice.
Thanks x
If you reverse the o and the a you get the anglicized version of the Hebrew word Torat - it means 'Laws'. The Tarot we have in our day (the classical Tarot) comes from the Hebrew Torah - There is a set of images to be found in the letters. This is provable.
The emphasis on the deck is just as strong and as important as the Diviner, brujo, reader..teller.
I did not notice that cat till half way thru the video. That man is sneaky
the sound is horrible on this video
Looked at a pack tarot cards online. Never watched a video on them. This shows up on my recommendations -.-
Excellent video! Thanks!
Tarots are absolutely identical to the Italian regional cards that we use today in modern Italy to play games.
The only difference is that the Italian regional decks are missing the major triumphs.
It shows the deep connection between the two and obviously tarots were and still are beautifully crafted GAMING CARDS.
All what came centuries after, all this mystical aspect of it, is just an invention without any foundation or evidence.
Those are simply gaming cards!
yes, all the card games had basically the same visuals. The modern diamonds suit is the coins suit/gold suit/disks suit. The spade suit is the swords suit. The modern hearts suit is the cups/goblets suit. And the modern clubs suit is the wood suit/bastoni/batons/bastões. Our modern cards are derived of the late medieval european cards, which are derived from the Mamluk cards. In mamluk cards they had coins, swords (scimitars), goblets and polo sticks. Absolutely similar to ours.
Pokemon cards will be a fascinating
Mystic Mondays, my fav deck
I specifically chose my tarot deck to be simple and not too detailed in order to truly “fortune tell” and get real intuition from the cards instead of being biased by the illustrations
She picked Crowleys deck
Check your Corners so?
@@apersonwhoknows was he not a Satanist?
Crowley-Harris tarot deck is still the best of all time, both aesthically and occult imagery.
this is quite interesting, I may get into tarot myself
This is a clear and believable history of tarot decks. If you ask anyone who's into the occult, they give you this bull crap about how no one knows where it's from, it's as ancient as culture and it's all mysterious.
What a misleading info..lol
i love the motherpeace deck!
5:08 What is the name of the deck with the red border and white dragon?
Highly interesting
Best to make your own deck.
No talks about Lenormand cards? These are probably the most used. And what about the normal game cards that can also be used for telling what's going to happen?
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What do you do with the tarot cards
I had always heard you cant buy your own deck but it must be given, does anyone know where that comes from?
I have a friend that does tarot, and she told me that a long time ago too. I believed it for years and I think once you how thru an awakening, you can chose a deck that you think suites you best. I bought my own last year and have loved it.
I love the teleporting cat.
tarot cards are mentioned in the law of One. that puts them much older.
Well So True! A great informative video🌠
Thanks for watching!
This starts at the Tarot revival. It was historically defaced and obscured . meanings also.. Micheal Tsarion
...omg great video, I've been studying for over ten years and am a crowley man b igot the old big 78's a few other decks but the 78 is my companion deck and study tool and I have to say thank you for this it is very informative and I feel if I suppose this to some people it would break their stigmata instantly and in under ten minute's excellent job you guys. Gaia network you guys are something special...side note on eliphas levi I'm sure you know he was among the first to etch the great sabbatical goat I have also studied astrology and not till the last few years did I come to find out the goat he etched sits on our southern horizon. I have never found anything on this constellation but one day I'm sky gazing and there he was a perfect copy of the portrait in the sky at least the top half as clear as ursa major and minor. Is it possible that you will be looking into these figures of our past and aleister Crowley s work and of those whom he felt fraternally connected such as levi? I think you would be able to expound this information quite well as you have been consistently impressive ...also and what I think must have freaked him out is that the constellation is so anatomically perfect that he must have thought someone was panting pictures for us in the sky with stars for from what other perspective could this be possibly seen save for the exact opposite side of the mirror...thanks again, oh and it was from Moreno valley southern Ca that I witnessed the constellation I also own several copies of the actual portrait and when you side by side them you'll fall out of your shoes lol...
Thanksss
"How could I know if the pagan cats deck was as legitimate as the classic Marcel deck" ...what the what? ...maybe the reason there is no metric for differentiating which is more legitimate is because its all hokum?
OvenLovin 710 Not sure how that's relevant but ... That too.
Mitch Horowitz rocking the 'Bad Brains' shirt !!
Always been interested in Tarot but never bought a Deck as felt the artwork on Original Rider Waite deck was a little dated.
ZA WARUDO
Found my jojo comment
Its a disease and im apart of it ;-;
Can you tell please, what music did you use in this video? I would be very grateful 😊
I knew it! As soon as he said "archetype". It's no wonder why Persona uses the Tarot Cards to tie it in with Jungian Psychology.
...sorry I just realized how confusing that sounds. Amazing nonetheless!
You chose Aleister Crowleys Thoth Tarot Deck as Illustrated by Lady Frieda Harris! That is by far the best, most potent, most beautiful deck there is, and frankly, the only one that speaks to me.
the music is sooo annoying
Tarot I read goes back to the churches resistance to a female pope , the family that made the first deck had an ancestor executed by the church as a heretic because she was destined to be the first female pope. The tarot have that in their symbology.
Mitch Horowitz is Awesomeness in the flesh!!🙏👌
That was groovy
My goodness, that's where most card games originated from. No wonder yugioh was themed after Egypt at first.