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 Yes, there are fake Tarot Decks, everything has a fake version. But how do you tell if they are fake, well there are a few ways... 1. They are smaller You can tell they are knockoffs if they are smaller than the real deck 2. They are poorly printed The colors are off, the picture is blurry or pixelated, the print is hart to see or read.  3. They come in a flimsy box The box itself should be good quality, so you can tell if they are fake if the box is bad quality. 4. The cards are printed on thin floppy paper The cards themselves need to be sturdy enough to hold up and go through shuffling.  5. The colors are off or no color at all If the colors are not what they are supposed to be then that is a red flag. 6. Look at the price, sometimes the price is too good to be true Sometimes things are cheap, which can be nice but it can also mean the product is not great quality.  7. Cards are missing A standard Tarot deck consists of 78 cards. They are divided into two gr...

  Every card has its meaning...  The Fool Meaning Upright: innocence, new beginnings, free spirit Reversed: recklessness, taken advantage of, inconsideration The Magician Meaning Upright: willpower, desire, creation, manifestation  Reversed: trickery, illusions, out of touch The High Priestess Meaning Upright: intuitive, unconscious, inner voice  Reversed: lack of center, lost inner voice, repressed feelings The Empress Meaning Upright: motherhood, fertility, nature Reversed: dependence, smothering, emptiness, nosiness The Emperor Meaning Upright: authority, structure, control, fatherhood  Reversed: tyranny, rigidity, coldness The Hierophant Meaning Upright: tradition, conformity, morality, ethics  Reversed: rebellion, subversiveness, new approaches The Lovers Meaning Upright: partnerships, duality, union Reversed: loss of balance, one-sidedness, disharmony The Chariot Meaning Upright: direction, control, willpower Reversed: lack of control, lack of directi...

 Lots of people misunderstand what tarot cards are, i want to help make people not be so ignorant about this topic. Some like to claim they are evil, some like to claim they do this or that, and some claim they are for this or that. But what are they really for? What do they really mean? Are they evil? How can a deck of cards be evil? (Spoiler: they aren't evil) The tarot is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. Tarocchini are point trick-taking tarot card games popular in Bologna, capital city of the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and has been confined mostly to this area. The original purpose of tarot cards was to play games. A very cursory explanation of rules for a tarot-like deck is given in a manuscript by Martiano da Tortona before 1425. Vague descriptions of game play or game terminology follow for the next two centuries until the earliest known complete description of rules for a F...

  When should you cleanse your Tarot Deck? When you first get it Each time you do a reading When someone else uses it or touches them If you've traveled with it If the connection feels off Ways to cleanse tarot decks. Crystals (Selenite, Clear quartz, Black tourmaline, Amethyst) Smoke/Incense Salt (Salt bath) Moonlight (Moon bath, under the full mood) Shuffling Sunlight (Sun bath) Meditate Fresh Air Pack the cards up with bay leaves Knocking Breath Visualization Sound SIMPLE BLESSING FOR TAROT CARDS “Blessed Ones in whom I live, move, and have my being. From you all things emerge and unto You they do return. I ask this day for these cards to be blessed with clarity, love, and wisdom. I ask for Clarity so that what I see and what I show to others is clear, makes sense, is transparent, accessible, and easy to understand. I ask for Clarity so that these cards work as the mirrors that they truly are – reflecting back to myself and to others the deepest truths which are a...

  To help stop misinformation I wanted to add more to this topic. Too many people don't know what tarot cards are and don't know were they came from or how it started... Playing cards first entered Europe in the late 14th century, but the origin is unknown. The first records date to 1367 in Berne and they appear to have spread very rapidly across the whole of Europe, as may be seen from the records, mainly of card games being banned. Little is known about the appearance and number of these cards; the only significant information being provided by a text by John of Rheinfelden in 1377 from Freiburg im Breisgau, who, in addition to other versions describes the basic pack as containing the still-current 4 suits of 13 cards, the courts usually being the King, Ober and Unter ("marshals"), although Dames and Queens were already known by then. One early pattern of playing cards that evolved was one with the suits of Batons or Clubs, Coins, Swords, and Cups. These suits are s...