The Esotericism Library - Witchcraft

Taking an interest in tarot means discovering a tradition that, for over six centuries, has accompanied human beings' questions about their destiny, their place in the world, and their relationship to the sacred. Over the ages, this set of cards has evolved, reflecting both the spiritual beliefs and artistic sensibilities of each period. Often reduced today to a simple tool of divination, the tarot actually has a particularly rich history. Born as a card game at the end of the Middle Ages, it was gradually associated with hermeticism, occultism, and various initiatory traditions. Its transmission has been built through treatises, commentaries, teachings of practitioners, and the work of many artists who continuously renewed its iconography. From a court entertainment to a medium for meditation, study, and symbolic interpretation, the tarot has constantly transformed while retaining the evocative power of its images.