| The past of the Tarot is something that is coverted by | | | | The concurrent tarot deck is separated into what is |
| time. There are some quotations and scholars that | | | | commonly named the major arcana or trump cards |
| couple the start of the Tarot with that of age-old | | | | and minor arcane or suits of cards. The trump cards |
| Egypt, while additional historians and scholars point that | | | | or major arcana consist of twenty two cards, every |
| the Tarot shares pedigree with aged gypsy cultures. | | | | one of without suits. These include the fool, the |
| Still, there are additional historians that consign an Italian | | | | Magician, the Empress, Justice, the Wheel of Fortune |
| genesis to the Tarot cards, and it is concluded that the | | | | and others. The minor arcana is made up of of four |
| Tarot Cards became a mechanism of divination right | | | | suits of cards; swords, staves, cups and coins. Now, |
| around the 1400s. Since that time, hundreds of | | | | staves are frequently termed wands, but rods or |
| disparate decks display elaborated and are now in use. | | | | batons are seen as well. Coins might be termed disks |
| One of the greater notorious, decks being the | | | | or pentacles in some tarot decks. |
| Rider-Waite deck. | | | | |