EGYPTIAN TAROT CARDS
Egyptian Fortune Telling Cards
Egypt the Origin of Tarot
The origin of the tarot and even its original purpose is a subject upon which even the most learned scholars cannot seem to agree. There is an old joke told about every kind of scholar: put two of them in a room and you will get three opinions. Some say the tarot started out as plasterboard pictures of various gods and goddesses used to teach their divine properties to the illiterate and brought to Europe by travelers from India. These travelers arrived when Egypt was all the rage and found it advantageous to be known as "Gyptees." Their descendants are now known as Gypsies. That theory might account for many people believing tarot originated in Egypt. However, there are those that claim tarot came from tenth century China, and there are advocates for Hebraic, Islamic, or Indian origins as well. One thing seems certain: the earliest and most complete deck of tarot cards dates from the early fifteenth century, and is said to have been made for the Duke of Milan.
The Magic of Tarot
Most people know the tarot only as a tool for divination. Each of the tarot cards represents a field of experience or a function in life. In a tarot reading, you shuffle the cards and then you lay them out in a specific manner such as the Celtic Cross Method or the Tree of Life Method. Then you judge each card by its position in the layout and how it relates to the other cards. From this you can then derive important statements about the person for whom you are reading. The magic of tarot is about spells. When you give a tarot reading, you Chanel energies from the universe toward yourself. You use the cards as indicators of what the universe tells you. If you do a spell with the tarot, you use the cards as energy filters. In the case of a spell, the tarot cards represent the energies that you are about to send off. I have mentioned above that each tarot card represents a field of experience, or a function, or an idea. As such, each tarot card is an archetypal symbol. To combine tarot cards means to combine ideas. Consequently the tarot cards are an ideal tool to creatively act upon your universe in magical operations.
EGYPTIAN TAROT
The profound secrets of ancient Egypt are united in these Egyptian Tarot Cards. The fantastic Tarot wisdom is being saved from oblivion to sparkle in its original splendor. The 78-card Ibis Tarot, published in 1991 by A.G. Müller, represents an Egyptian Tarot pattern first illustrated by M.O. Wegener in 1896. The coloring of the deck makes it one of the more attractive versions of this pattern. It is also one of the most faithful, Josef Machynka actually based his cards on designs found in a 1901 book titled Practical Astrology. The name Ibis refers to the bird associated with the Egyptian god Thoth, who instructed mankind in the sacred arts of language and hieroglyphics. It is Thoth, therefore, who is sometimes called the author of the Book of Tarot. The ibis bird can be seen on the side of the Magician's table, symbolizing the divine power worshiped by the Magician Ancient Egyptian Taro design, with Egyptian figures and symbols appear on the Major Arcana cards in this deck.
Egyptian Tarot
The Tarot of Cleopatra is an extraordinary deck that unites the Egyptian astrological tradition with the symbolism of the tarot. The images within this stunning deck represent the Egyptian divinities and the astral spirits of the Zodiac. The Cleopatra Tarot synthesizes the religious and astrological culture of that time, reuniting the 78 Egyptian divinities divided into groups according to their power. Whilst the Ibis Tarot has stylized ancient Egyptian figures and hieroglyphs in rather pretty scenes. I like the colors used for each card in this deck. The profound secrets of ancient Egypt are united in the Ibis Tarot. An ancient Tarot wisdom is being saved from oblivion to sparkle in its original splendor. The 78-card Ibis Tarot, published in 1991 by A.G. Müller, represents an Egyptian Tarot pattern first illustrated by M.O. Wegener in 1896.
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