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how to use playing cards as tarot cards?

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1. Uhmm I dont think you can do that.
2. im sure thats not possible?
3. I myself don't know how to do that. But you basically eliminate the Major Arcana and use the rest of the cards the same as you would the minor and court cards. Hearts are cups, diamonds pentacles, clubs are rods and spaces are swords. There are books on the subject. ***Yeah those people are correct its called Cartomancy***
4. Cough up the cash. Don't you know this is massed produced paranormal ability that can be bought? Or try a Magic 8 Ball, it works just as well. Never mind that they are printed with the same inks as other cards and cereal boxes. Though that would explain why my Rice Chex box is glowing.
5. It should never be assumed that Tarot card reading is the proper use of Tarot cards. Tarot cards are playing cards. One may play card games with Tarot cards as well as the conventional 52 card deck and one may also tell fortunes with both conventional playing cards and the Tarot. Divination is possible with any deck of cards. Cartomancy is the name for a wide variety of card based divination which includes the use of conventional playing cards, Tarot cards, or purpose built oracle decks such as Angel cards. It is also possible to practice divination with dice or any other item capable of producing randomness. However it would not be correct to call a reading with conventional playing cards a "Tarot reading" To do a Tarot reading, by definition, one needs a Tarot deck. It is also a gross over-simplification to always equate Tarot with divination as that is not the only use nor is it the original use of Tarot cards. People also play games with Tarot cards. Properly understood, the Tarot is essentially a variant deck of playing cards. Playing cards appeared in China long before Tarot cards. Shortly after the introduction of playing cards to Europe, the Tarot began to appear in northern Italy to be used for a card game similar to Bridge or Spades. The Tarot was not originally designed for divination. Not only was the Tarot originally designed for card playing, there are people today mostly in continental Europe playing card games with Tarot cards. The European Tarot cards for these games often differ in appearance from the type of Tarot cards used for divination. In recent years, the internet has made it possible for those outside Europe to discover actual card games played with Tarot cards. Prior the use of Tarot for divination, people used the conventional playing card deck for cartomancy. The popular meanings often given to certain Tarot cards originated with the meanings often given to conventional playing cards. Whether one uses Tarot for game playing or for divination, the Tarot is still a variant deck of playing cards. Prior to the 1960's it was actually much more common to use the conventional playing card deck for divination than it was to use the Tarot for this purpose.
6. Hello You can't. Divination with playing cards is called Cartomancy, they have their own meanings & are definitely not as in-depth as Tarot cards. Sadhara
7. cups = hearts petacles=diamonds wands=clubs swords=spades without the major arcana