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Tarot Decks
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The Vertigo Tarot deck employs characters from titles published by Vertigo Comics
including such imagery as John Constantine from Hell blazer in the role of The Fool
zero card. The cards were illustrated by Dave McKean with text by Rachel Pollack
and the accompanying book holds an introduction by Neil Gaiman. In France, where
the tarot game is most popular, there have been tarot decks published depicting
characters from Asterix, Disney, and Tex Avery cartoons.
Tarot decks The seventy eight card tarot deck used by esotericists has two
distinct parts:
[1] The Minor Arcana
[2]The Major Arcana
Minor Arcana
The Minor Arcana closely match Anglo-American playing cards, having Ace-through-Ten
and four face cards. The face cards are Page, Knight, Queen, and King. Each suit
of the Minors corresponds to one of the four Alchemical Elements. Pentagrams corresponds
with Earth, Swords with Air, Wands with Fire and Cups with water. The Face cards
also correspond to the Elements. The Page is Earth, the Knight is Air, the Queen
is Water, and the King is Fire. This makes the Page of Pentagrams, the Knight of
Swords, the Queen of Cups and the King of wands very strong cards.
Major Arcana
The Major Arcana are a set of twenty-two cards, numbered zero to twenty-one, with
no suit. There are usually many more elements in the images specified by the literature
for this set of cards. These cards are often interpreted as describing the normal
progression of a truly holy life, and often tell where a person is along their journey,
or if they have strayed. Such an interpretation is
called the "Fool's Journey" and
it originated with Eden Gray
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