What is tarot?

Tarot cards are a set of 78 cards, which began to spread in Europe around the end of the Middle Ages. At first, such cards were only used as games. Even today, a card game called "Tarot" is still circulating in France and Italy. The Tarot cards we usually play are in the middle of the evolution history of Tarot cards and playing cards. At present, tarot cards used for divination are composed of two parts. The first part consists of 22 cards, which we call Major arcana, also known as Grand Akana. They include fools, magicians, priestesses, queens, emperors, popes, lovers, chariots, powers, hermits, wheels of fortune, justice, people who hang upside down, death and temperance. Their numbers range from to 22, and almost all the parts of the big secret instrument have disappeared in today's playing cards, leaving only the fool who has become Jack (usually called his ghost card). In the second part, there are 56 cards called Minor Arcana, also known as Little Akana, which are divided into four groups of patterns, namely, the Holy Grail, the sword, the scepter and the gold coin. These patterns are used in today's playing cards: the Holy Grail becomes a red heart, the gold coin becomes a square, the scepter is a spade, and the plum blossom takes a sword and other patterns; Similar to playing cards, the four groups of patterns of the secret instrument include the numbers from one to ten, plus four court cards, namely king, queen, knight and attendant. You must find that this is the predecessor of today's playing cards, but the knight and attendant have been combined into a J, the queen has become a Q, and the K representing the king. The cards used for divination are dazzling, ranging from the primitive and ancient Wisconti Tarot or Marseille Tarot, to the widely spread Witt Tarot or Cleot Tarot, and even the Lord of the Rings Tarot, Greek Myth Tarot, Egyptian Tarot, Elgin Tarot ... Osho Zen Card, Yijing Zen Card and Angel Card. You will want to ask, which of these tarot cards should be used? As a matter of fact, tarot cards are the application of symbols. No matter what kind of cards you use, it is important that you can read the symbols on the cards. Masai Tarot, Witttarot and Clayton Tarot are all works that combine western mysticism and semiotics, so they can be widely circulated in the west, and most modern creators can't tell the samadhi. My own commonly used Osho Zen card is the Tarot Card of Osho Zen, which is more aware of a state at that time. Here, there are 22 main cards, plus one master card, and 56 deputy cards, which are also divided into four groups, namely water, cloud, fire and rainbow cards. Each group also has four court cards: king, queen, knight and soldier. Corresponding to the traditional tarot cards, fire replaces the scepter, which represents the level of action and reaction; Water replaces the holy grail, representing emotions and emotional aspects; The cloud replaces the sword and represents the mind; Instead of gold coins, rainbows represent the actual and material aspects of life.