From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in ...

The World tarot card is the twenty-second Major ... In the four corners of the card, there are images of a man, a lion, an eagle and an ox. In astrology, the man represents the air sign Aquarius ...

In this installment of Practical Magic, Lisa Stardust explains reading tarot with playing cards, or cartomancy. Always remember that magic is for believers, but this column can also simply serve ...

While towers of sorts show up in various images in the tarot, there’s no card that more potently embodies the understanding that all structures and powers must eventually fall than the Tower itself.

Tarot, as a set of cards with these images that can be interpreted in a lot of ways, if nothing else, can support the notion that meanings are always unfolding and contextual. An idea might be ...

Among them is a fascinating hand-painted deck by Austin Osman Spare, which depicts the traditional arcana of tarot in an almost psychedelic style. Spare’s words and images flow across the cards ...

I simply integrated tarot into my prayer practice, a seamless process that involved pulling cards with morning prayer and finding connections between the images and Scripture. This is still how I ...

Bearing mysterious images, such as the Hanged Man or the Hierophant, tarot cards have inspired fanciful tales about their origin. Associated today with fortune-telling, tarot is often assumed to ...