Perhaps the most widely known and prolific method of divination, Tarot is a centuries-old form of cartomancy that involves the use of a desk of usually between 72-78 cards, divided between the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana or pips. Tarot first emerged as a playing card game called Tarrochi in 14th century Italy, and later became a method of divination in the 17th and 18th centuries.

 

The Major Arcana are figures of power and represent human archetypes and ideas that represent powerful and dominant ideas or people in the subject's life (this person is known in Tarot as a Querent, or 'Asker'.)

 

The Minor Arcana still represent these archetypes, but more for happenings and events, rather than particular people or ideas, except for the Court cards (Page, Knight, Queen, and King.) The Court Cards often directly represent people in the Querent's life, or that are soon to enter it.