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Cartomancy fairly recent compared to other forms of divination. The first records date back to 1770, the date of publication in Paris of Etteilla, ou la seule manière de tirer les cartes, where the author, Etteilla, alias Jean-Baptiste Alliette, explained the use of regular playing cards to predict French the future. A few years later the same Etteilla gave to the press if recréer Maniere de cartes avec un jeu de Tarot nommées (Paris, 1783-1785) devoted to divination by means of known Tarocchi.Come Giordano Berti in the History of Divination (History Oscar Mondadori, Milano, 2007) as early as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries meet in Italy and Germany, vague testimony about the use of playing cards for the purpose divination, but these practices are very different from what modern Tarot cards do not have meanings precisi.Dopo Etteilla, the most famous fortune-teller was Adélaide Marie Lenormand (1768-1843), better known as "Mademoiselle Lenormard", which seems to be addressing Beauharlais Josephine, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. Since she was named a special bundle called the "Sybil Lenormand, whose invention should not however be attributed to Mlle Lenormand.I decks of cards used for divination are to be diverse and heterogeneous, both in origin and quantity of "seeds" and shapes. They range from ordinary playing cards and several decks of Sibille Italian (The real Sybil, for example, Masenghini, Bergamo), Paris (Lenormand) and gypsy (common in German-speaking world), up to an infinite of decks created more recently and specifically designed for use astrology (the most known and these are the Belline Oracle). They are used in some case even the Zener cards, 25 cards, with 5 stars, 5 waves, crosses 5, 5 5 circles and squares), although the use for which these cards were designed not to have to do with divination, but with exercise telepatia.Tuttavia the deck of the most commonly used for divination by the Tarot is medieval, containing 78 carte.Il basic principle of the Tarot, carried with each bundle is based on a motto: "As above so below", meaning the "above" as the great metaphysical universe, and the "under" as the physical reality of the world around noi.Più simply, the mosaic of cards drawn, through the interpretation of symbols or allegories contained in them and the positions they taken, we can provide a good approximation of the actual consequences of our choices (intuitive method) or even give us an indication of what to do or what will happen anyway qualunque cosa decidiamo di fare (metodo sacrale).Più praticamente le carte divinatorie possono essere usate sia per leggere un eventuale futuro sia per svelare, a chi le studia, particolari aspetti di se stesso.
Cartomancy fairly recent compared to other forms of divination. The first records date back to 1770, the date of publication in Paris of Etteilla, ou la seule manière de tirer les cartes, where the author, Etteilla, alias Jean-Baptiste Alliette, explained the use of regular playing cards to predict French the future. A few years later the same Etteilla gave to the press if recréer Maniere de cartes avec un jeu de Tarot nommées (Paris, 1783-1785) devoted to divination by means of known Tarocchi.Come Giordano Berti in the History of Divination (History Oscar Mondadori, Milano, 2007) as early as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries meet in Italy and Germany, vague testimony about the use of playing cards for the purpose divination, but these practices are very different from what modern Tarot cards do not have meanings precisi.Dopo Etteilla, the most famous fortune-teller was Adélaide Marie Lenormand (1768-1843), better known as "Mademoiselle Lenormard", which seems to be addressing Beauharlais Josephine, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. Since she was named a special bundle called the "Sybil Lenormand, whose invention should not however be attributed to Mlle Lenormand.I decks of cards used for divination are to be diverse and heterogeneous, both in origin and quantity of "seeds" and shapes. They range from ordinary playing cards and several decks of Sibille Italian (The real Sybil, for example, Masenghini, Bergamo), Paris (Lenormand) and gypsy (common in German-speaking world), up to an infinite of decks created more recently and specifically designed for use astrology (the most known and these are the Belline Oracle). They are used in some case even the Zener cards, 25 cards, with 5 stars, 5 waves, crosses 5, 5 5 circles and squares), although the use for which these cards were designed not to have to do with divination, but with exercise telepatia.Tuttavia the deck of the most commonly used for divination by the Tarot is medieval, containing 78 carte.Il basic principle of the Tarot, carried with each bundle is based on a motto: "As above so below", meaning the "above" as the great metaphysical universe, and the "under" as the physical reality of the world around noi.Più simply, the mosaic of cards drawn, through the interpretation of symbols or allegories contained in them and the positions they taken, we can provide a good approximation of the actual consequences of our choices (intuitive method) or even give us an indication of what to do or what will happen anyway qualunque cosa decidiamo di fare (metodo sacrale).Più praticamente le carte divinatorie possono essere usate sia per leggere un eventuale futuro sia per svelare, a chi le studia, particolari aspetti di se stesso.