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title: Tarot
created: 2007-08-13 11:59
updated: 2012-02-27 11:32
revision: 58
author: Auriea
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Tarot with FoAM - LibFoam:tarot

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Tarot Exchange [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tarot-Exchange]
## rws matrix
*78 cards / 22 major / 16 court / 56 minor / 4 court per suit*

**cups** -> hearts -> water -> east -> summer -> solstice -> feminine -> emotion, subconscious, relationships
**wands** -> clubs -> fire -> south -> spring -> vernal equinox -> masculine -> inspiration, creativity, communication, action energy
**swords** -> spades -> air -> west -> autumn -> equinox -> masculine -> logic, flow, rational, conflict, struggle, intellectual
**pentacles** -> diamonds -> earth -> south -> winter -> solstice -> feminine -> work, money, comfort, security, body, business, practicality

Aces - a beginning (timing)
2 ~ further development
3 ~ planning
4 ~ practical attainment
5 ~ unbalance, conflicts
6 ~ harmony
7 ~ choices
8 ~ changes
9 ~ conclusions
10~ fulfillment of the suit (transition back)


0. The Fool - the querant ;)		
1. The Magician	
1. The High Priestess	
1. The Empress		
1. The Emperor		
1. The Hierophant	
1. The Lovers		
1. The Chariot		
1. Strength		
1. The Hermit		
1. Wheel of Fortune	
1. Justice
1. The Hanged Man
1. Death
1. Temperance
1. The Devil
1. The Tower
1. The Star
1. The Moon
1. The Sun
1. Judgement
1. The World

## reading
- http://supertarot.co.uk/index.htm
compendium of tarot meanings
- Intuitive vs. Traditional
  - http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=125650
  - http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=136753 (when is it not tarot but an oracle?)

## games
- Gog:Tarocchi
- Gog:Minchiate <- this looks important !!
  - Minchiate is a late-medieval card game, probably originating in 15th century Florence, Italy; it is no longer widely played. Minchiate can also refer to the special deck of playing cards used in the game. The deck is closely related to the tarot cards, but contains an expanded suit of trumps. The game was similar to tarocchi and the game of tarot. In the view of some people, the larger number of trump cards may shed light on what the original intentions of the creators of the Tarot deck meant by the images they included.
  - images: [http://www.tarothermit.com/florence.htm] [http://l-pollett.tripod.com/cards17.htm]
- GAME RULES http://www.tarocchino.com/

[[cards]]
## collecting
### have
toth
rider-waite-smith
deviant moon
vertigo
maat
voyager
godess
legacy
osho zen
### want
amano tarot [http://yoshitaka-amano.kouryu.info/gal-eng-divers-tarot-p-1.html]
the deck of shadows [http://thinkingmagically.com/deck_of_shadows.html][http://tarotdame.blogspot.com/2010/02/deck-review-deck-of-shadows.html]
ukiyo-e http://www.learntarot.com/ukdesc.htm
transparent 
dali
hermetic
shining tribe/woman 
golden
mythic
(traditional) rider-white-smith
afro brazillian
Grail tarot (continuous frieze)
Derakkusu Ban Hihou tarot 
manara

## research
- seems to be the best forum:
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/
- http://www.learntarot.com/less1.htm
WikiPedia:Tarot_card_games
WikiPedia:Taboo:_The_Sixth_Sense
searchable database: http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/ 
I am of the opinion that a Tarot "game" for the NintendoDS would sell quite well. I would love to make one. It might be cool to expand it out to other types of superstitions like astrology and blood typing... but no, keep it simple and go for interactive "FortuneTelling" 
- Interesting as a manner of decision making. i've sen on a forum where a writer invents a spread in order to determine the direction of a story plot.
  - Img:Tarot+Spreads

*see also: [FuckYeahTarot](http://fuckyeahtarot.tumblr.com/) on tumblr, which I admin. it's research.*