A system of symbolic images on cards. Whatever their original significance, the cards have been used since they first surfaced as much for divinatory purposes as for trick-taking card games. Tarot is currently also used as tool for reflection on one's personal life, as well as an aid to meditation. Tarot is usually embodied in a deck of 78 cards, similar to a set of playing cards. In the English speaking world, tarot is widely regarded as a form of cartomancy.
Cards used for telling fortunes. Each card has a dual meaning for good and bad. Given to Angela by Amber in " Other People's Daughters."
a type of fortunetelling that uses a set of special cards
A set of 78 cards, 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana, which carry pictures and symbols used for divination. On one knows the specific origin of the cards.
A set of 78 cards which carry pictures and symbols used to connect the diviner with the collective unconscious. The cards can be used to determine the past, present and future of an event or person and can become powerful tools in magickal workings and rituals.
A pack of cards for the purpose of divination using symbolism contains seventy-eight cards forming a system of communication.
A set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortune teller.
A picture card system used for divinatory purposes such as fortune telling. Comprises 78 cards in total split into two groups. The first group consists of 22 trump cards which are categorised as belonging to the Major Arcana. The remaining 56 cards are categorised as the Minor Arcana; these are then split into four suits of 14 cards. The cards are shuffled while a question is being considered and then one or more cards are laid out into a pre- determined spread. The card reader will then interpret the meaning of the cards in relation to the query. It can take many years to learn it properly but once learnt it is a very accurate form of divination albeit from a lower realm to that of the spirit.
A set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices, death and fortune etc. used by fortunetellers to help predict future events.
Deck of seventy-eight cards that supposedly reveal the secrets of man and the universe.
