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Tarot
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The tarot is a pack of cards. Tarot decks usually have 78 cards in total: 21 trumps, 40 pips, 16 face cards, and one Fool card. In England and the United States, tarot cards are used for divination. In many European countries, the cards are also used in games.

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(contracted; show full) traditionally simple pip cards with images of symbolic scenes. This deck also further obscured the Christian allegories of the Tarot de Marseilles and of Eliphas Levi's decks by changing some attributions (for instance changing "The Pope" to "The Hierophant" and "The Popess" to "The High Priestess". The Rider-Waite-Smith deck still remains extremely popular in the English-speaking world. There is a controversy over the ordering of some of the cards. Some place 
“Strength” as Major Arcanum number 8, while others assign “Justice” to number 8. And some assign “Strength” to Major Arcanum number 11, while others assign “Justice” to this placement. Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the greatest living Tarot masters. Jodorowsky explains that “The Fool” is unnumbered and Major Arcanum #13 (normally called “Death”) is unnamed.

==A psychological interpretation of Tarot==
Tarot cards can be used as a psychoanalytical tool. [http://www.random.org/ Generate numbers] from 1 to 78 and refer to that card in the list. Always interpret the Tarot honestly. The following examples are based on the [[w:Rider-Waite tarot deck|Rider-Waite tarot deck]]. Feel free to print out this page, write the numbers 1-78 on little pieces of paper, and play it with friends.


===The Fool===
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==External links==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfoSE4gjFco&feature=related Lost History-Tarot Cards (Video, 3 min.)]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMKEY12oxqw&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLAF1EF72F1E7F6BF9 Tarot Skeptic (video series)]
* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/index.htm Sacred Texts website]
* [http://www.pagat.com/tarot/ Tarot games]
*  [http://tarocchino.com/ More tarot games]
* [http://www.trionfi.com/ Tarot Museum]