What where tarot used for?

Answer 1

Well, if I am able to decode your "question" correctly, you seem to be asking what tarot readings are for. [Next time, please write your question clearly in a complete sentence.]

Tarot readings, using tarot cards or playing cards, are done for entertainment value as a method of prognostication. They are widely variable and open to great differences of interpretation. Only the foolish or ignorant take such utterances as fact.

If you were asking about the TARO plant, that's something else entirely. You should be able to look that up yourself.

Answer 2

The many different tarot decks available will all portray symbolic imagery which must then pass through your psychic senses and, given the context of the questions asked, bring forth a tarot card meaning that significantly answers your question.
I am a professional psychic and always have at least 4 different decks on the go at any one time. When a deck get’s a bit too well worn I buy a new deck (often from eBay). I prefer to work with as new a deck of cards as possible so the shuffle and deal smoothly and quickly. I usually sell my old decks on eBay too. Here’s a live RSS feed for Tarot Decks on eBay at the moment. http://feeds.feedburner.com//TarotDeck

You can use this four minute video as a brief meditation on the tarot that, repeatedly viewed, will help you learn how to read tarot cards psychically. http://www.psychic-junkie.com/tarotvision.html

Here is a free download demo for a great Tarot program. To keep the size of the demo manageable it contains the Rider/Waite deck, the actual program will have 10 complete decks. This Demo version of Tarot is a full working copy for 30 days. So you get 30 days to study meanings and spreads! http://www.free-tarot-download-demo.wotsnext.com

Answer 3

While the exact sources of tarot are not completely known, the earliest reliable information suggests tarot originated as a game in 15th century Italy by adding to a normal deck of cards 21 trump cards, a fool, and 4 queens of each suit. Some early tarot decks of Northern Italian origin, which date to the early to mid-15th century, have remained. These were called carte da trionfi or "cards of the triumphs." About a century later, the cards came to be known as tarocchi.

It is unknown when the tarot was first used for divination, but there are no documented uses of tarot cards for divination prior to the 18th century. All available evidence indicate that cartomancy with more conventional playing cards pre-date tarot cartomancy. As early as 1540, a book entitled The Oracles of Francesco Marcolino da Forli shows a simple method of divining from the coin suit of a regular playing card deck. Manuscripts from 1735 (The Square of Sevens) and 1750 (Pratesi Cartomancer) show rudimentary divinatory meanings for the cards of the tarot, as well as a system for laying out the cards. In 1765, Giacomo Casanova wrote in his diary that his Russian mistress frequently used a deck of playing cards for divination. In 1781 Antoine Court de Gébelin wrote a speculative history and a detailed system for using the tarot to foretell the future. From Gébelin's time forward, various explanations have been given for the origins of tarot, most of them of doubtful veracity. There is no evidence for any tarot cards prior to the hand-painted ones that were used by Italian nobles, but some esoteric schools believe its origins could be in Ancient Egypt, Ancient India or even the lost continent of Atlantis. Such beliefs in non-Italian origins, however, are speculative.

Answer 4

http://www.tarotmeister.com/history.html

this is a site that explains it's history a little with it's uses