Tarot Decks
The practice of reading tarot cards is an art that is shrouded in mystery and the mystic. So getting your tarot card read is like solving a puzzle or a mystery. A set of 78 tarot cards make up what is called tarot card decks ad you can also create your own tarot card deck as this is not specific to tarot reading or the reader. You have many different types of tarot decks to choose from and each tarot deck is different from and the other. The various types of tarot decks are the Thoth tarot deck, which is symbolically rich and is based on the instructions of Aleister Crowley. Then there is the extremely popular Rider-Waite tarot deck which is more in use in European countries. The deck has very ancient symbols that were inspired by the magician Eliphas Levi. Earlier tarot decks started out with only 52 cards, which were hand painted and no jokers, but later the trump cards were added to make it a 78 tarot card deck. The idea of the present format of tarot decks was in fact formulated by Aleister Crowley and since then the tarot card decks have become important for reading tarot cards.