Your Cart is Empty
MAGICK + RITUAL TOOLS
TAROT + DIVINATION
BOOKS
- SPELL BOOKS
- WITCHCRAFT BOOKS
- BEGINNER WITCHCRAFT
- ASTROLOGY & THE COSMOS
- CRYSTAL BOOKS
- TAROT & DIVINATION BOOKS
- HERBALISM & GREEN WITCH
- HOUSE & KITCHEN WITCH
- FAMILY LIFE & CHILDREN
- 2SLGBTQIA+ & ACTIVISM
- ENERGY BOOKS
- HEALTH & HEALING
- JOURNALS & PAPER GOODS
- LUCID DREAMING & DREAM MAGIC
- OCCULT BOOKS
- PARANORMAL & EXTRATERRESTRIAL
- PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY
- PSYCHEDELIC & SPIRITUAL PLANT MEDICINES
- PSYCHIC ABILITIES & DEVELOPMENT
- INVESTMENT BOOKS
- STAFF PICKS & OUR FAVOURITE BOOKS
HOME + ACCESSORIES
The Esoteric Tarot
$36.00
That the Tarot originated in ancient Egypt as a divinatory tool is a romantic misconception. Ron Decker's meticulous scholarship will surprise practitioners and academics alike, revealing the Tarot's true evolution and meanings as its inventor(s) understood it.
The Tarot consists of the Minor Arcana, four suits of cards similar to our modern deck, and the Major Arcana, twenty-two allegorical or trump cards. Decker says the four-suit deck was invented in Asia Minor before AD 1000; Italian courtiers added the trumps in the 1400s. But Tarot was first used as a game. Tarot divination was only created in the 1700s by a Parisian fortuneteller who based the trump images on Hermeticism, which merges Greco-Egyptian alchemy, astrology, numerology, magic, and mysticism. Today, the suit-cards are often traced to the ancient Jewish Cabala. But, says Decker, they, too, acquired their meanings only in the 1700s, and he cites a lost numerical system based on Cabala at that time.
The Tarot consists of the Minor Arcana, four suits of cards similar to our modern deck, and the Major Arcana, twenty-two allegorical or trump cards. Decker says the four-suit deck was invented in Asia Minor before AD 1000; Italian courtiers added the trumps in the 1400s. But Tarot was first used as a game. Tarot divination was only created in the 1700s by a Parisian fortuneteller who based the trump images on Hermeticism, which merges Greco-Egyptian alchemy, astrology, numerology, magic, and mysticism. Today, the suit-cards are often traced to the ancient Jewish Cabala. But, says Decker, they, too, acquired their meanings only in the 1700s, and he cites a lost numerical system based on Cabala at that time.