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Even if the imagination often associates it with a good fortune draw, some have made it their profession. Some are accused of simply reading the cards and exploiting the Barnum effect. Seventy-eight cards are used, either the tarot game in whole or in part. Interpretation practices have their sources in the tarot of Marseille or Besançon. Many variants have been referenced since the Middle Ages. Maps are therefore at the center of tarology. First of all, we find the Trumps (the name is exactly the same as in card games) also called major arcana. There are twenty-two of them and were numbered with Roman numerals. We find key cards such as the Bateleur or the magician (number 1), the Pope also called the High Priestess (number 2), the Empress and the Emperor are numbers 3 and 4. Then come (the numeral cards and so-called minor arcane figures. These are all the other cards divided in colors (there are four) or in series: shield, stick, sword and cut. Each color or series has 14 cards.
While many protocols vary according to the taromanciens and consultants who have a say, there are usually three phases when drawing cards. Of course, we mix, and then we cut the game. Then the selected cards are placed on the table. All that remains is to proceed with the last, most important step, the interpretation of these maps! If there are many ways to draw the cards, my most used is the so-called cross draw. There is also the online draw of five cards, or the Queen's game. The latter consists of extending, without looking, five cards on the table and then choosing twenty-four more and asking the consultant to mix and cut with his left hand, before proceeding with the interpretation. Each card corresponds to a specific theme: love, money, health… a first parallel is obvious: tarology can also predict the future, exactly on the same themes as a seer. However, it is a draw of cards, and whoever operates the cards in hand does not use developed faculties, in-depth knowledge of the stars for example, he interprets a draw.
