How Does Card Divination Relate To The Planet?

Cartomancy is a centuries-old divination practice that involves presenting a question to cards, making a pull, and allowing the subconscious to guide the way. The process involves shuffling the deck, focusing on a question or intention, and drawing cards to reveal insights and guidance. Cartomancy originated from ancient civilizations, where seers and mystics used simple playing cards for divination purposes. Over time, the practice evolved, incorporating different card types.

Cartomancy can be used for divination with a standard 52-card deck of playing cards. To get a full geomantic chart, draw four cards from your deck and lay them across in a row from right to left. Elemental divination involves two magical elements meeting to give “Greater Water over Fire” or “Lesser Air over”.

Using tarot cards is one way to signal the Universe that you are ready and willing to accept its information. The first use of cards to tell the future was in the early 20th century. Through the lens of playing card readings, the elements – fire, earth, air, and water – reveal their meaningful symbolism, guiding us.

The Destiny Cards also have a planetary influence, depending on the placement of your cards. These planetary influences have an effect on each time period you use your cards.

Using normal playing cards is a divination method on its own, different from tarot. Runes are not used for tarot, but they can represent compelling ideas, desires for truth, calls to justice, or a need for honesty. The numbered cards, from ten down to the Aces, share the same meanings as a tarot deck, with hearts representing love, relationships, and creativity.

Can playing cards be used for divination?

Cartomancy is a form of fortune-telling or divination that emerged in Europe in the 14th century. Practitioners, known as cartomancers or card readers, use standard 52-card decks for fortune-telling readings in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. In France, the 32-card piquet stripped deck is most commonly used, although the 52-card deck can also be used. In English-speaking countries, the most common form of cartomancy is tarot card reading, with tarot cards being almost exclusively used for this purpose. Cartomancers, card readers, or simply readers are all professionals involved in cartomancy.

What is the origin of divination cards?

Tarot decks were invented in Italy in the 1430s, adding a fifth suit of 21 specially illustrated cards called trionfi (“triumphs”) and an odd card called il matto (“the fool”). These cards bore Italian suitmarks and belonged to an experimental period of card design when queens were often added to the series of court cards previously consisting of only a king and two male figures. In standard cards, the four figures were subsequently reduced to three again by suppressing the queen, except in French cards, which suppressed the cavalier (knight).

The trionfi each bore a different allegorical illustration instead of a common suitmark, possibly representing characters in medieval reenactments of Roman triumphal processions. They were originally unnumbered, so it was necessary to remember their order. When added to the pack, trionfi functioned as a suit superior in power to the other four, acting as a suit of triumphs or “trumps”.

What do playing cards symbolize spiritually?

The four playing card suits in the Tarot represent the four seasons, solstices, moon phases, and elements found in nature. These cards were brought to Europe from Italy in the late 14th and early 15th centuries and were known as Il giuco dei Tarocchi, meaning “the game of the wayfaring people”. This game established a basic card layout of 22 cards used later for divination. Many cards in Il giuco dei Tarocchi were familiar to modern divination users, such as the Fool, the Empress, the Wheel of Fortune, and the Star.

However, the interpretation of playing cards is not ancient wisdom. Former Protestant pastor Antoine Court de Gébelin believed in the Tarocchini cards’ occult meaning in 1781, claiming they had ancient and mystical roots in the Egyptian worship of Thoth.

Are playing cards a weapon?

The myth that a card could kill or seriously injure someone if thrown correctly by a person with enough force was propagated by Ricky Jay’s book Cards as Weapons. This myth was tested on the Discovery Channel program MythBusters, where co-host Adam Savage was shown to be adept at performing the throwing card trick. His maximum throwing speed was measured at 25 miles per hour (40 km/h). The hosts were able to measure the speed of his throws at about 90 miles per hour (140 km/h).

After failing to throw the cards into a ballistic gelatin target with enough force that would result in injury, they used an electric motor to mechanically launch a card at 150 miles per hour (240 km/h). Offering his own body as a target, host Jamie Hyneman allowed the launcher to be fired at the exposed skin of his abdomen from a few feet away, which only resulted in a superficial paper cut. The hosts concluded that a playing card does not have sufficient mass to cause lethal damage to human tissue.

Card throwing was a plot point in the 2016 film Now You See Me 2. Guinness World Records records the most playing cards consecutively thrown into a horizontal target, the farthest throw of a playing card, the highest throw of a playing card, and the most one-handed card scales in a minute.

Is tarot cards divination?

Since ancient times, people have used magical or mystical rituals to predict the future. Tarot card decks, originally used for playing cards, became used for fortune telling in the mid-18th century. Dreams have also been used for divination, with early Egyptians believing they contained god-sent messages. In the 18th and 19th centuries, publishers issued books and pamphlets to help readers assess their dreams.

What are tarot cards linked to?

Court de Gébelin claimed that the name “Tarot” came from the Egyptian words Tar, meaning “path” or “road”, and Ro, Ros, or Rog, meaning “King” or “royal”, translating to “the Royal Road of Life”. However, Egyptologists found no evidence to support his etymologies. The belief that the tarot cards are linked to the Egyptian Book of Thoth continues to this day.

The actual source of the occult tarot can be traced to two articles in volume eight, one written by Court de Gébelin and one written by M. le C. de M.***, identified as Major General Louis-Raphaël-Lucrèce de Fayolle, Comte de Mellet. The author makes no acknowledgement of de Gébelin and contradicts him over details such as the meaning of the word “Tarot” and how the cards spread across Europe.

Court de Gébelin made the first statements proposing that the tarot was “The Book of Thoth” and made the first association of tarot with cartomancy. He was also the first to imply the existence of a connection between the Tarot and Romani people, although this connection did not become well established in the public consciousness until other French authors began in the 1850s to promote the theory that tarot cards had been brought to Europe by the Romani.

Cartomancer Jean-Baptiste Alliette (also known as Etteilla) was the first to assign divinatory meanings to the tarot cards in 1783.

What elements do playing cards represent?

A suit is a category in playing cards, divided into various elements such as faculty, fire, swords, air, reason, cups, chalices, goblets, vessels, water, spiritual matters, pentacles, coins, disks, rings, and earth. Each card bears one of several pips, which indicate its suit. The rank for each card is determined by the number of pips on it, except on face cards. Ranking indicates which cards within a suit are better, higher, or more valuable than others.

There is no order between the suits unless defined in the rules of a specific card game. In most decks, there is exactly one card of any given rank in any given suit. A deck may include special cards that belong to no suit, often called jokers.

English-speaking countries traditionally use French suits of Clubs, Spades, Hearts, and Diamonds, while many other countries have their own traditional suits. For example, central Europe uses German suited cards with suits of Acorns, Leaves, Hearts, and Bells, Spain and parts of Italy and South America use Spanish suited cards with their suits of Swords, Batons, Cups, and Coins, German Switzerland uses Swiss suited cards with Acorns, Shields, yellow Roses, and Bells, and many parts of Italy use Italian suited cards with different patterns.

Modern Western playing cards are generally divided into two or three general suit-systems. The French suits are a derivative of the German suits but are generally considered a separate system.

What is the connection between playing cards and tarot cards?

Hearts historically represented the clergy and spirituality, and in the modern era, they represent the heart and emotions. The suit of cups in the Tarot aligns with the heart, representing the spirit. The suit of Swords aligns with the suit of spades, representing challenges, boundaries, and character building. Clubs align with Wands, tools for manifestation, representing farmers and creation. Diamonds historically represented trade and commerce, aligning well with the Tarot’s suit of Pentacles, representing resources and money.

What is the origin of divination?

Divination is a universal phenomenon found in almost all cultures, and it was prevalent in the ancient world. Written evidence for divination dates back to the early 2nd millennium in Mesopotamia and is attested to various parts of the ancient world, including the Near East, Egypt, the Levant, Greece, Italy, and China. Despite being forbidden for religious or political reasons in some ancient societies, divination remained pervasive in the Roman Empire and continued after the advance of Christianity.

Research into divination began in the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, with many primary sources from Mesopotamia, Greece, and China published for the first time. However, interest in divination grew again from the late 1980s onward, with an abundance of research and the publication of new primary sources.

Divination is a means of gaining knowledge that is not obtainable by normal modes of investigation, serving to handle uncertainty, warn or reassure a person or a whole people about what the future will bring, and illuminate past events. It can be divided into “artificial” and “natural” divination, with natural divination referring to prophecy and other kinds of theophany revealed in plain language or comprehensible visions. Artificial divination relies on a hermeneutic apparatus, which can be complex or simple code, sometimes combined with the diviner’s intuition.

In the early 21st century, there has been a movement toward considering divination and prophesy as two sides of the same coin, in line with Plato and Cicero. Prophecy is left out of consideration in this context.

Divination is a cultural activity that serves multiple purposes and is attested to in a myriad of variations. The history of their manifestations, development, and cross-fertilization in the ancient world is still a work in progress.

What is the origin of tarot playing cards?

Tarot cards, originally known as tarocchi, first appeared in northern Italy, with the addition of the Fool and 21 trumps to the standard Italian pack of four suits: batons, coins, cups, and swords. Early European cards were likely based on the Egyptian Mamluk deck invented before the 14th century, which followed the introduction of paper from Asia into Western Europe. By the late 1300s, Europeans were producing their own cards, with variations to suit symbols and court cards.

The first records of playing cards in Europe date back to 1367 in Bern, and they spread rapidly across Europe, mainly due to card games being banned. Little is known about the appearance and number of these cards, except for a text by John of Rheinfelden in 1377, which describes the basic pack as containing four suits of 13 cards, with courts usually being the King, Ober, and Unter (“marshals”), although Dames and Queens were already known by then. These suits are still used in traditional Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese playing card decks and in modern tarot divination cards that first appeared in the late 18th century.

What is the point of divination?

Divination is a practice that aims to uncover the source of trouble and remove it through various methods such as sacrifice, countersorcery, or accusation and ordeal. It involves determining the hidden significance or cause of events, sometimes foretelling the future, using natural, psychological, and other techniques. Found in all civilizations, divination is most commonly practiced in contemporary mass society through horoscopes, astrology, crystal gazing, tarot cards, and the Ouija board.

In ancient Roman culture, divination was focused on discovering the will of the gods. Today, divinatory practices and beliefs are more extensive than discerning the will of the gods and the fatalistic view of the human condition. In some societies, divination is a practice that many people resort to, but never in terms of discovering the will of the gods.

Divination is universally concerned with practical problems and seeks information for making practical decisions. The source of such information is not mundane, and the technique of obtaining it is often fanciful. The mantic (divinatory) arts are numerous, and a broad understanding can only be gained by surveying actual practices in various cultural settings.