
All over the world ,people are discovering tarot as a potent ally for conscious living . The Tarot is a deck of cards originated over 500 years ago in northern Italy. Although Tarot was first used in a game called Triumphs , it was quickly adopted as a tool for divination and popularised by occult societies such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn . The early Tatot symbolism was deeply rooted in Medieval and Renaissance Europe . Today , the tarot is far and away the most popular tool for spiritual introspection in both West and the East alike . The first deck of cards – The Rider Waite Tarot Deck , was a result of the efforts of Pamela Colman Smith . She was an artist , writer and illustrator, who had vivid dreams about images and people, which were then illustrated in the form of 78 cards which layer came to be known as The Rider Waite Tarot Cards.