Rick’s Methods
Tarot Reading
The Tarot is composed of 78 cards. 22 of them are Major Arcana (The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, and The World). 56 of them are Minor Arcana (14 cards of each suit, Wand, Pentacle, Cup, and Sword).
It is believed that the Tarot was first created as playing cards. In the 14th century, playing cards were introduced to the Europe from the Middle East, and in the 15th century, the first known Tarot cards were created in northern Italy. Later, mass production of the Tarot became possible owing to the invention of printing press. The most popular Tarot deck of this era is Tarot de Marseilles, made in the French city Marseilles. Although the first documentation of using the Tarot for divination purpose was made in the 16th century, the Tarot was still more of a tool for play.
Serious application of the Tarot for divination appeared in the 18th century, when Antoine Court de Gébelin wrote “Le Monde Primitif”. Since then, occultists in England and France started to seek divinatory meanings in the Tarot. The late 18th century, a catholic priest, Eliphas Levi, imbued tho Tarot with religious, astrological, and metaphysical meanings, to use it for helping one’s own enlightenment. The late 19th century, A. E. Waite first introduced the Tarot as a tool for predicting the future. His Tarot, the Rider-Waite deck, was published in 1896 and is now the most widely used version of the Tarot. In the early 20th century, the Tarot as a divinatory tool was accepted by the general public of the Western world, and it became very popular during World War I. Since then, the Tarot has been widely used as a divinatory tool.
Rick studied Tarot reading with European masters of Tarot, who had been preserving the authentic and traditional way of Tarot card reading.
