Discover meanings of twenty two cards of the Major Arcana and seventy six cards of the Minor Arcana divided into a four suits. The Tarot is a deck of cards that originated some 500 years ago in northern Italy although there are theories that is much older and maybe has its origin in Egypt. In Europe it was quickly adopted as a tool for divination, and popularized by occult societies such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. On these pages you will find mainly the Rider-Waite tarot. The Rider-Waite tarot is the most well-known tarot deck in the Western world. It is a modern Tarot deck, drawn by Pamela Colman-Smith and commissioned by Waite, both the members of Golden Dawn. It is first that uses detailed images on cards of the Minor Arcana.