Quotes with tarot

  • According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.

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  • Brendan I. Koerner According to tarot historian Gertrude Moakley, the cards' fanciful images - from the Fool to Death - were inspired by the costumed figures who participated in carnival parades.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Arthur E. Waite The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Arthur E. Waite We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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