I was told that you can use a regular deck of cards in place of tarot cards...I just need to know the meanings of the cards in relation to hearts diamonds spades clubs ect... Can any one help me?
I want to know how to divinate with playing cards.?
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shuffle a deck of cards and draw one from the deck
then check the table and see what the meaning of the card is
Reply:Regular playing cards were derived from the Minor Arcana of the Tarot,and can be used to divinate with,but they don't have the same strong subconscious imagery as the Tarot.Anyway here's how it goes:
Spades= Swords
Hearts= Cups or Chalices
Clubs= Wands,Staves or Rods
Diamonds=Pentacles or Discs
There is no card in the regular playing deck to equal the Page or Princess in the Tarot.And there is no Major Arcana.The Joker card of the regular playing card deck is the only card that appears in the Major Arcana of the Tarot.There it is the Fool.
Reply:I suggest you get a book on the subject. I have one for a tarot deck, but it would take all day to give you the information. The tarot deck is divided into 2 groups; Major Arcana - 22 cards
Lesser Arcana - 56 cards which are representative of a regular playing deck of 52 cards. The Jack is a combination of the Knight and the Page.
The meanings of the cards change depending on their relationship to other cards, where they are placed in the reading and whether or not they are placed head up.
Wands are Clubs
Swords are Spades
Cups are Hearts
Pentacles are Diamonds
Check your local library or a book store for a publication on divining with a regular deck of playing cards.
Reply:Hearts are cups, diamonds are pentacles, spades are swords, and clubs are wands. Otherwise, you're pretty much reading the pip cards the same, except no page/prince/whatever the funky lowest court card is in the tarot deck you're used to (they change...)
Reply:You are speaking of cartomancy. There are many sites that have info on the topic.
Reply:You don't need to go there this is not good. No JOKING AROUND. Don't go there. Stay away from this stuff. It is bad for You. My vibes are telling me to answer your ?. Stay away from this, no good no good no good.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
What are the Origins of the Suits of Playing Cards?
French card makers around the 15th century introduced the familiar suits of hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades. The designs were probably inspired by everyday country life, which symbolized hearts, acorns, bells and leaves respectively.
Edit:
The origins of playing cards are indeed much older. But here we are talking about the suits, namely hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades, which were introduced by the French. The only puzzle is nobody can be sure what the suits symbolized. Similarly, we can’t be sure of many things around us.
What are the Origins of the Suits of Playing Cards?
The hearts shape represent a woman's buttocks - then it's imagination time.
Reply:Short answer is that no-one knows. Origins are older than mentioned in other answers and are certainly also linked to the suits in Tarot cards.
Hearts - Cups
Spades - Swords
Diamonds - Coins
Clubs - Staves
Ask a hundred "experts", you'll get a hundred answers. I've seen The Egyptians, The Chinese, Early Christians and many others get the blame.
Reply:They come from French decks of cards. In French decks, the suits represent the four classes:
Spades represent nobility
Hearts stand for the clergy
Diamonds represent merchants
Clubs are peasants.
Reply:Well, originally, all the cards were naked but the Catholic Church went all nutso and demanded that they wear suits. This happened right after Pope Looney the IV decreed that henceforth, Donald Duck would wear a shirt but no pants and Mickey Mouse would wear pants but no shirt...
Reply:I believe that it began with the French in the 1840's. The four suits have stayed in place mainly because decks could be made by stencil instead of woodcuts. This made it much easier to make standard decks.
Certain cards do have some historical significance - The King of spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs are David, Charles, Caesars and Alexander, respectively.
Edit:
The origins of playing cards are indeed much older. But here we are talking about the suits, namely hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades, which were introduced by the French. The only puzzle is nobody can be sure what the suits symbolized. Similarly, we can’t be sure of many things around us.
What are the Origins of the Suits of Playing Cards?
The hearts shape represent a woman's buttocks - then it's imagination time.
Reply:Short answer is that no-one knows. Origins are older than mentioned in other answers and are certainly also linked to the suits in Tarot cards.
Hearts - Cups
Spades - Swords
Diamonds - Coins
Clubs - Staves
Ask a hundred "experts", you'll get a hundred answers. I've seen The Egyptians, The Chinese, Early Christians and many others get the blame.
Reply:They come from French decks of cards. In French decks, the suits represent the four classes:
Spades represent nobility
Hearts stand for the clergy
Diamonds represent merchants
Clubs are peasants.
Reply:Well, originally, all the cards were naked but the Catholic Church went all nutso and demanded that they wear suits. This happened right after Pope Looney the IV decreed that henceforth, Donald Duck would wear a shirt but no pants and Mickey Mouse would wear pants but no shirt...
Reply:I believe that it began with the French in the 1840's. The four suits have stayed in place mainly because decks could be made by stencil instead of woodcuts. This made it much easier to make standard decks.
Certain cards do have some historical significance - The King of spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs are David, Charles, Caesars and Alexander, respectively.
How do i make the cards while playing Bridge bigger. I have set the screen to 600x800 but still can't read.
I used someone elses computer and they cards were automatically much bigger.
How do i make the cards while playing Bridge bigger. I have set the screen to 600x800 but still can't read.
Sounds like you have vista! until you can find a fix, here is an option you can use.
http://www.magnifiers.org/ screen magnifiers
How do i make the cards while playing Bridge bigger. I have set the screen to 600x800 but still can't read.
Sounds like you have vista! until you can find a fix, here is an option you can use.
http://www.magnifiers.org/ screen magnifiers
What is the best type of playing cards and were can you get them cheap in bulk?
thanks :)
What is the best type of playing cards and were can you get them cheap in bulk?
best playing cards you can get are copag or kem
they are not cheap at all but they are guaranteed!
DOG
What is the best type of playing cards and were can you get them cheap in bulk?
best playing cards you can get are copag or kem
they are not cheap at all but they are guaranteed!
DOG
Can someone please tell me what the cards of a playing card deck mean when read as tarot cards?
I want to do a reading for me and my family, I used to study the tarot but it's been so long I've forgotten and I only have regular cards.
Can someone please tell me what the cards of a playing card deck mean when read as tarot cards?
Cartomancy: Similar to Tarot Card reading only Cartomancy is using a traditional deck of PLAYING cards not Tarot cards.
Try a search for 'Learn Cartomancy' in the Psychic Search Engine
Reply:http://www.members.tripod.com/TarotCanad...
Use that link though I would feel uncomfortable doing it. good luck
Reply:Any Spade From Hiearchy Of the Deck Is Some Type Of Evil To envy(No Good)......Any Heart(means love..Kindred...etc..._) Any Clubs Means a Turn Of the draw..(Luck On Your Side) and Diamond Is for the Riches/Money you will Encounter......Any Of the Cards that Appear as J Q K are the play makers disguised as themselves ...all other cards tell denomination of how much 2-10 ........ex spade 2 is fair ......while 10 heart is good loving.....
Reply:Heres a great site with information regarding what you are looking for. Enjoy!
http://tarotcanada.tripod.com/ReadingOrd...
Reply:This link may be able to help you, if you are in fact using the Rider-Waite deck.
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/mea...
Best of Luck-for you, and your family!
May there be many Cups!!
Can someone please tell me what the cards of a playing card deck mean when read as tarot cards?
Cartomancy: Similar to Tarot Card reading only Cartomancy is using a traditional deck of PLAYING cards not Tarot cards.
Try a search for 'Learn Cartomancy' in the Psychic Search Engine
Reply:http://www.members.tripod.com/TarotCanad...
Use that link though I would feel uncomfortable doing it. good luck
Reply:Any Spade From Hiearchy Of the Deck Is Some Type Of Evil To envy(No Good)......Any Heart(means love..Kindred...etc..._) Any Clubs Means a Turn Of the draw..(Luck On Your Side) and Diamond Is for the Riches/Money you will Encounter......Any Of the Cards that Appear as J Q K are the play makers disguised as themselves ...all other cards tell denomination of how much 2-10 ........ex spade 2 is fair ......while 10 heart is good loving.....
Reply:Heres a great site with information regarding what you are looking for. Enjoy!
http://tarotcanada.tripod.com/ReadingOrd...
Reply:This link may be able to help you, if you are in fact using the Rider-Waite deck.
http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/mea...
Best of Luck-for you, and your family!
May there be many Cups!!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Who invented the Playing Cards? When? Where? Why? What was the first game played?
Playing cards emerged in 9th century China. Ancient Chinese "money cards" have four "suits": coins (or cash), strings of coins (which may have been misinterpreted as sticks from crude drawings), myriads of strings, and tens of myriads. These were represented by ideograms, with numerals of 2–9 in the first three suits and numerals 1–9 in the "tens of myriads". Wilkinson suggests that the first cards may have been actual paper currency which were both the tools of gaming and the stakes being played for. The designs on modern Mahjong tiles likely evolved from those earliest playing cards. However, it may be that the first deck of cards ever printed was a Chinese domino deck, in whose cards we can see all the 21 combinations of a pair of dice. In Kuei-t'ien-lu, a Chinese text redacted in the 11th century, we find that dominoes cards were printed during the T’ang dynasty, contemporary to the first books. The Chinese word pái (牌) is used to describe both paper cards and gaming tiles.
An Indian origin for playing cards has been suggested by the resemblance of symbols on some early European decks (traditional Sicilian cards, for example) to the ring, sword, cup, and baton classically depicted in the four hands of Indian statues. This is an area that still needs research.
The time and manner of the introduction of cards into Europe are matters of dispute. The 38th canon of the council of Worcester (1240) is often quoted as evidence of cards having been known in England in the middle of the 13th century, but the games de rege et regina (on the king and the queen) there mentioned are now thought to more likely have been chess. If cards were generally known in Europe as early as 1278 , it is very remarkable that Petrarch, in his work De remediis utriusque fortunae (On the remedies of good/bad fortunes) that treats gaming, never once mentions them. Boccaccio, Chaucer and other writers of that time specifically refer to various games, but there is not a single passage in their works that can be fairly construed to refer to cards. Passages have been quoted from various works, of or relative to this period, but modern research leads to the supposition that the word rendered cards has often been mistranslated or interpolated.
It is likely that the precursor of modern cards arrived in Europe from the Mamelukes of Egypt in the late 1300s, by which time they had already assumed a form very close to that in use today. In particular, the Mameluke deck contained 52 cards comprising four "suits": polo sticks, coins, swords, and cups. Each suit contained ten "spot" cards (cards identified by the number of suit symbols or "pips" they show) and three "court" cards named malik (King), nā'ib malik (Viceroy or Deputy King), and thānī nā'ib (Second or Under-Deputy). The Mameluke court cards showed abstract designs not depicting persons (at least not in any surviving specimens) though they did bear the names of military officers. A complete pack of Mameluke playing cards was discovered by L.A. Mayer in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, Istanbul, in 1939 ; this particular complete pack was not made before 1400, but the complete deck allowed matching to a private fragment dated to the twelfth or thirteenth century. In effect it’s not a complete deck, but there are cards of three different packs of the same style (International Playing Cards Society Journal 30-3 page 139) There is some evidence to suggest that this deck may have evolved from an earlier 48-card deck that had only two court cards per suit, and some further evidence to suggest that earlier Chinese cards brought to Europe may have travelled to Persia, which then influenced the Mameluke and other Egyptian cards of the time before their reappearance.
It is not known whether these cards influenced the design of the Indian cards used for the game of Ganjifa, or whether the Indian cards may have influenced these. Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits (often as many as thirty two, like a deck in the Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, painted in the Mewar, a city in Rajasthan, between the 18th and 19th century. Decks used to play have from eight up to twenty different suits).
An Indian origin for playing cards has been suggested by the resemblance of symbols on some early European decks (traditional Sicilian cards, for example) to the ring, sword, cup, and baton classically depicted in the four hands of Indian statues. This is an area that still needs research.
The time and manner of the introduction of cards into Europe are matters of dispute. The 38th canon of the council of Worcester (1240) is often quoted as evidence of cards having been known in England in the middle of the 13th century, but the games de rege et regina (on the king and the queen) there mentioned are now thought to more likely have been chess. If cards were generally known in Europe as early as 1278 , it is very remarkable that Petrarch, in his work De remediis utriusque fortunae (On the remedies of good/bad fortunes) that treats gaming, never once mentions them. Boccaccio, Chaucer and other writers of that time specifically refer to various games, but there is not a single passage in their works that can be fairly construed to refer to cards. Passages have been quoted from various works, of or relative to this period, but modern research leads to the supposition that the word rendered cards has often been mistranslated or interpolated.
It is likely that the precursor of modern cards arrived in Europe from the Mamelukes of Egypt in the late 1300s, by which time they had already assumed a form very close to that in use today. In particular, the Mameluke deck contained 52 cards comprising four "suits": polo sticks, coins, swords, and cups. Each suit contained ten "spot" cards (cards identified by the number of suit symbols or "pips" they show) and three "court" cards named malik (King), nā'ib malik (Viceroy or Deputy King), and thānī nā'ib (Second or Under-Deputy). The Mameluke court cards showed abstract designs not depicting persons (at least not in any surviving specimens) though they did bear the names of military officers. A complete pack of Mameluke playing cards was discovered by L.A. Mayer in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, Istanbul, in 1939 ; this particular complete pack was not made before 1400, but the complete deck allowed matching to a private fragment dated to the twelfth or thirteenth century. In effect it’s not a complete deck, but there are cards of three different packs of the same style (International Playing Cards Society Journal 30-3 page 139) There is some evidence to suggest that this deck may have evolved from an earlier 48-card deck that had only two court cards per suit, and some further evidence to suggest that earlier Chinese cards brought to Europe may have travelled to Persia, which then influenced the Mameluke and other Egyptian cards of the time before their reappearance.
It is not known whether these cards influenced the design of the Indian cards used for the game of Ganjifa, or whether the Indian cards may have influenced these. Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits (often as many as thirty two, like a deck in the Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, painted in the Mewar, a city in Rajasthan, between the 18th and 19th century. Decks used to play have from eight up to twenty different suits).
What's the story behind a deck of playing cards?
A little unclear actually. Its pretty narrowed down to China and England for inventing them, depends how you want to think about it.The first forms of chinese currency was a little like cards actually but if you mean the traditional cards you can pick up for like a buck then credit probably should go to england. I could rant but instead...
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