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Alright, I know that in LJS books she never mentions the Tarot, but I still like to remain firm in my assumption that one of the parts left out of..say..The Secret Circle might have been Diana's teaching and giving Cassie a Tarot reading. And as it's a favorite pastime of mine I decided to include a little bit about it....
The Tarot is a psychological and philosophical system consisting of 78 cards divided into the Major Arcana (21 cards), and the Minor Arcana with four Suits, each containing four Court cards and ten Number cards. While references to playing cards appear in Europe from the mid-1300s, one of the oldest Tarot decks, the hand-painted Visconti-Sforza deck of Milan, Italy (c. 1450), may have been based on allegorial parades called Trionfi. In 1781 Court de Gébelin claimed that the symbols on the cards had ancient sacred and magical meanings. Soon they began being used for fortune-telling. A modern reading consists of shuffling the deck, drawing cards, arranging them in a pattern or spread, and interpreting the symbols in relation to a question or current life influences.
The card names in a deck are divided (as mentioned above) into the Major Arcana, and the Minor Arcana, with four suits. The names of the suits are:
Each suit deals with certain aspects of life. Such as:
Now I will list all the cards in a Tarot deck by seperating them into their Arcana. The Major Arcana consists of the following cards:
The Lesser (Minor) Arcana consists of 1-10 of each suit along with a Page, Knight, King, and Queen---so as this never varies there is no reason to list them all below.
