Does anyone knows how did the tarot cards exist and why?

Some people said that they don't believe in tarot cards because there are no evidence or scientific prove that how can cards really tell what will happen to us in the futture? I don't want your opinion, what I just really curious to know how did it started, why, what happen? did it came from ordinary card games ?

Does anyone knows how did the tarot cards exist and why?
I believe in everything so there is not such thing for my religion.I have experience "ghost sightings"and "Skinwalkers" and life and death experiences.





I think I have a six sense and dreams that later happen.I rarely speak of this for simple fact that I don't wanted to happended but when it does makes me a believer.





I had a tarot reading 1yr ago and it was told about a close family death,a love affair,a new baby and most importantly moving to a new country.





So far 99% of what was said has happen.My daughter and I we're close to death.My daughter experienced a "Near appendix burst" and had to get a Emergency operation and than I was flying back home from Mexico to Usa and there was a snow storm and the plane was near missing the landing which was a horror experience for me.





Later in this year,I was told my a close associate that my husband was seen with another women entering a hotel.I think I might be pregant and I'm scared because I have not told anyone yet! Until I get myself checked by my own doctor and not by myself.But I'm a doctor So,is logic that I'm about 4 weeks pregant.





I played the quija board 1 month ago and ever since than I been having strange dreams and things going on.I had a patient commit suicide and now I have legal issues for the fact that I have to go to court and confirm I was there therpist.





all this to say..after a long day.We have to believe in something even if it does or does not exist.But until it happens to you..





you will understand the other side that is forgotten in this chaos.
Reply:Although there are some people who might claim that the origins of Tarot are mysterious, we now have a pretty good idea of their origins. They began to appear in the 15th century in northern Italy. They were intended to be used for a variant card game in which those 22 extra cards formed a trump suit. Yes, Tarot did come from ordinary card games. Card games played with Tarot cards are still played today in Europe where there's an official federation in France which organizes Tarot game tournaments. The use of Tarot cards for fortune telling and the occult did not begin until the late 18th century.
Reply:Divination hasn't got any "official" root, and has as many forms as it has practitioners.





Tarot did not evolve from a game of cards, but there's no definitive answer where they did start. The oldest surviving decks date from the 14th century in Egypt.





Why? For the same reason people read tea leaves, consult psychics, sacrifice chickens, or pray.





Incidentally, one of the older systems of tarot held that it was your subconscious, not mystic forces, communicating with you. You had to make your own deck, so the significance of each card was clear to you. You started each question by putting the deck in order, then shuffling. Your subconscious mind tracked the order of the cards, and prompted you when to start dealing.
Reply:I don't believe in tarot cards. Think about it, its the same as a deck of cards, you have the same probability of choosing the card that says your going to win the lottery and be a national hero or the card that says your going to die in the next week. Just a scam so people don't have to get a real job. Hopefully I wont be struck dead for saying this.
Reply:no one really knows the origin of tarot, where or when it started. I read somewhere that they were used to gain insight on the future.
Reply:Well divination in general goes back before recorded history. The old testiment has people casting lots and other things.





Tarot however did start from a middle ages card game. The word Trump comes from the Roman carnivals that had parades through towns called Truimpants. It eventually got shortened to Trump. The oldest fragments of decks are from about 1380. So during the Renaissance this flourished and eventually Qabbalistic thought caught up to the cards and they started to merge. It was not until the 18th century that a French Monk and author married up the Qabbalah and the tarot that we have the decks that we start to recognize. At the end of the 19th century the Rider Waite deck came out in response to the Enlightenment era and tarot as WE know it was born. It is a series of good ideas finding each other that makes it work.





In Qabbalistic thought there are 4 worlds and 4 suits. There are 22 Hebrew letters and 22 Trumps. All of these things were independent ideas that were just always waiting for each other :)





I hope that helps.
Reply:If you would like some examples of how tarot has 'shown' the future, contact me.


The cards are not 'fortune tellers' what future picture they provide is one on many possible futures. We can change the future that is told in a reading by altering the direction an attitude we have regarding the issue.


BUT, there are times where the cards are read regarding an event that one has no control over. I have done such readings, and in time, the future they tell of, does happen.
Reply:I don't actually know the history, but I can say that the magic isn't in the cards. A good tarrot reader can also use Uno cards to do readings.
Reply:Every site I find is basically saying the same thing.





Beyond the myth: the historical truth


With its origin almost impossible to trace back in time, Tarot is probably one of the oldest game in the world. Many of those who studied it link the cards to the Gypsies, the Egyptians, the Indians and their esoteric teachings to the God Thoth, the Alchemists or to the Kabbalists.





One thing is for sure: the creation of Tarot as we know it is medieval. The oldest decks are from that era and the symbols in the cards have a distinctive medieval style.








Late Middle Ages


To understand the Tarot, you must put it back in its original context : the late Middle Ages. In Europe - probably less than a century before Tarot appeared - a climate change had destroyed crops and led to famine. Between 1349 and 1351, the Black Death had killed up to two-thirds of the European population. Kingdoms and authorities had no response to the crisis. The social structure of Europe was changed as well as people's state of mind.








The loss of so many created an economic recession. The European culture turned into its most morbid state: Pessimism, lack of trust for the church led the art to turn dark with representations of death. The use of Alchemy in medicine collapsed because of its inneficiency to cure the plague.





It was also a time of division for the Catholic Church. The Pope's authority was diminishing as nation sovereignty rose in France and England. The two kingdoms had fought more than a hundred years over the French soil, they had started the war with swords in 1337 and finished it with guns and cannons in 1453.





Although people from this period rediscovered ancient Greek and Roman philosophies, they still kept intact the profane and sacred symbolisms that had built their culture... Devoid of many scientific discoveries and concepts, visions of life were very different from now. Life was explained by a series of symbols, depicted on the stones of cathedrals and taught from generation to generation. Contrasts between happiness and sadness, health and sickness, wealth and poverty, summer and winter were much more important than now. Genius was expressed through the architectural and pictural arts dedicated to God, and intended to elevate the population towards a better understanding of existence.








The diffusion of the Tarot


The game of Tarot probably emerged in Italy from this crucial time of humanity. The cards we currently use were crafted around 1650 in Marseille, France.





The earliest document about the Tarot dates from the middle of the 15th century, when a Franciscan monk condemned its use and linked the names of the trumps to the devil. His way to describe the cards already indicates, at this early stage, that the Tarot was a different type of game than chess or playing cards.
Reply:Well, once upon a time, a clever con-man thought.....