http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/10/predicting-future-of-october.html A modern Pagan perspective Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/10/predicting-future-of-october.html#comment-665 Anonymous Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:21:00 +0000 http://patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2006/10/predicting-the-future-of-october-journalism.html#comment-665 The genuine Tarot is actually a classic European trick taking card game quite often mismarketed to our hemisphere as some "occultic" or "new age" device. It is in France, where this Tarot card game is most popular. It has also gained a foothold recently in French speaking parts of Canada. There is also a similar game played in Austria and surrounding regions most often under the name of "Tarock" Many players of Tarot card games, nowadays, use a more modern deck with double-ended court cards and conventional playing card suits of hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds and the trump cards sport arbitrary scenes of 19th century Europe. Not only do these games excercise one's thinking and memory skills, they are quite wholesome and suitable for all family members, be they Pagan, Christian, Jewish, atheist or any other creedI invite the reader to further investigate the more authentic Tarot tradition by doing a Google search on "jeu de tarot" and "tarock" The genuine Tarot is actually a classic European trick taking card game quite often mismarketed to our hemisphere as some “occultic” or “new age” device. It is in France, where this Tarot card game is most popular. It has also gained a foothold recently in French speaking parts of Canada. There is also a similar game played in Austria and surrounding regions most often under the name of “Tarock” Many players of Tarot card games, nowadays, use a more modern deck with double-ended court cards and conventional playing card suits of hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds and the trump cards sport arbitrary scenes of 19th century Europe. Not only do these games excercise one’s thinking and memory skills, they are quite wholesome and suitable for all family members, be they Pagan, Christian, Jewish, atheist or any other creedI invite the reader to further investigate the more authentic Tarot tradition by doing a Google search on “jeu de tarot” and “tarock”

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