Traditional Tarot

Contemporary deck includes 78 cards in two main groups, defined as: Major Arcana - 22 cards Small Arcana - 56 cards The strongest influence on today's structure and interpretation of tarot has a group of French and English occultists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Their study relied on a system of esoteric Kabbalah. The major part of the deck developed in the twentieth century based on the Kabbalistic concepts of structure, symbolism and interpretation. The leading and typical examples are the Rider-Waite deck of Tarot Arthur Edward Waite and Thoth Tarot Aleister Crowley, whose drawings of the implemented properly Pamela Colman Smith and Frieda Harris. In the nineteenth century in Britain was an association Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), which use a system of esoteric knowledge, which is a kind of synthesis of Kabbalah, tarot and astrology. Part of the kabbalistic meditation associated with the Tree of Life was the contemplation of tarot cards, as the highest, most perfect kind of knowledge. Golden Dawn Tarot (Tarot of the Golden Dawn) by Robert Wang is one of the most famous deck. Currently, the tarot is not evolving in form, function and application. Since its creation has not changed its structure. In the Rider-Waite deck was only changing the card to card VIII, XI Justice Power. However, duplicative and formation of new decks are different implementation technique, the expression of the author and the content of symbols, and not the arcana of the main building of the Great and Small. In the early twentieth century tarot deal with Carl Gustav Jung, who wrote a thesis on the symbolism and archetypes in it. The person dealing with divination using tarot cards is a diviner. A person using Tarot cards for the diagnostic analysis (search for cause-effect relationships), self-improvement and meditation is a Tarot Reader (diagnostician).