These cards have been said to come as long a ago as Egyptian
times but I feel that It's more the time period of Knights and
the Crusades. Tarot card are a type of so called fortune-telling
cards which there many other type use and sold.
The Tarot card are like normal playing cards in being made up of
four suits which are named as Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles.
Fifty six cards in the Minor Arcana made up with three Kings,
Queens, Knight and Page. Plus you have another twenty two cards
known as Major Arcana. These do not belong to any suit, but have
their own numbers but for the Fool card.
There are many ways of using Tarot Cards with the way someone
deals out the cards to give a reading, the cross, the fan, the
year ( Clock, Calendar ) and others.
These work with most that wish to learn the cards this type
of way.
I feel why these card have such a mystical tradition to them is
that in time gone by people just could not read but could
understand a picture on a card that had the moon or sun being
night or day when fortune was said to come to the person having
the cards read for them.
This is also why I believe that some were and are taken in by
readers as the reader can just use some of the pictures to tell
a story and one being read sees the same in the cards showing.
What I believe a real user will use Spirit to show the real
meaning of each card, as the cards do have details in them.
Spirit will make the details/information come forward to the
reader to give out.
I also feel that cards are used to give information about the
life being read & showing that spirit is around us all and loved
ones are still by us.
I first used cards when I was in my teens to give reads to
people.
I found that I did not have to deal them into different
shapes on the table, to give a good read for somebody.
I do feel it depends on the guides around you at the time as to
how you use the cards and also some people believe that it's got
be done one way to give a real reading, so spirit will tell you
to do it the way needed for that person.
I used them to get drinks paid for in pubs as teenager ( I'm
tall so got away with being in the pubs under age ) I have used
just normal playing cards to give a reading, but this just shows
me that I get the readings from spirit and the tarot cards are
just a tool which spirit will use if needed to give hope and
information.
You must keep your cards yours at all times by asking your
spirit guide (s) ( I call my guides my mates / friends ) to keep
them safe from the dark and do not let unknown people use your
cards.