From a game to reflection

Gradually people began to look at the cards differently. In the 18th century in France, authors appeared who saw tarot as a secret language of symbols and began to use the deck for divination. A popular story about the ancient Egyptian origin of tarot was born then, but historians have found no evidence for it.

In the following century, European occult circles took up tarot. They linked the cards with astrology, numbers, and various spiritual systems. It is on this foundation that the tarot you are getting to know today later took shape.