Learning the Tarot for the first time is a daunting and overwhelming task. Not only are there seventy-eight different upright meanings, there are also seventy-eight reversed meanings!
The tarot is a set of cards featuring 22 trump cards, in addition to the usual suit (face and pip) cards found in ordinary playing cards. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games.
In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes.
Recently, the use of Tarot for divination, or as a store of symbolism, has inspired the creation of Oracle card decks. These are card decks for inspiration or divination containing images of angels, faeries, goddesses, Power Animals, etc. Although obviously influenced by Tarot, they do not follow the traditional structure of Tarot; they lack any suits of numbered cards, and the set of cards differs from the traditional major arcana.
Learning the Tarot for the first time is a daunting and overwhelming task. Not only are there seventy-eight different upright meanings, there are also seventy-eight reversed meanings!
