Tarot readings are one of the most widely used methods of divination. An experienced reader will be able to link to spirit very quickly through the symbolically rich cards. Readings using this method offer an in-depth insight into a situation as well as identifying trends and offering very specific answers and guidance in the face of problematic circumstances.

The cards are widely reported to have originated in northern Italy, but this contradicts the widespread Romany heritage that dictates the representations of the cards in fact originate from India, to Egypt and finally arrived in Europe via the port of Marseille, eventually emerging across France by way of individual occultists and then northern Italy where the cards were commercialised and widely distributed.

This vast circulation of the cards came much to the chagrin of the European churches and especially to the political establishment who tried their utmost to prohibit and discredit them by linking them to devil worship and witchcraft in addition to concocting the moniker ‘black magic’ to anything connected to them. All in order to ward would be converts away from the Tarot.

The cards are highly symbolic and are recognised as a formidable tool throughout the world of mysticism and far beyond. Tarot cards are also strongly linked to the Occult and are used as a link to spirit in a great number of spell workings. The simplistic, natural and practical link they provide to spirit makes them a preferred tool of many necromancers.