For centuries, people have been shuffling, pulling and reading tarot cards in hopes of dancing with divination and gleaning insights into their past, present, and future.

The seventh episode of Agatha All Along, titled “Death’s Hand in Mine,” featured the Tarot Trial of the Witches’ Road.Most fans watching knew something Tarot-related was coming, based on ...

Let's get into your weekly tarot card reading horoscope by zodiac sign—aka your Cosmo Tarotscope—for the week of May 12, 2025.

Published in 1910, the 78 cards of the “Waite-Smith” deck have become synonymous with tarot. A new book delves into their history, importance and popularity.

A tarot deck contains a pack of 78 illustrated cards, each depicting specific symbols and characters and originated in Italy during the 15th century. The Waite-Smith deck’s creation reflects an ...

LGBT adults were more than three times as likely (33%) as non-LGBT adults (9%) to consult tarot cards – a deck of cards featuring images and archetypes used to interpret one’s situation – at ...

Tarot left Italian courts and spread throughout Europe with the help of French soldiers returning from the Italian Wars in the 16th century. In the French city of Marseilles, more efficient ...

From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in the 18th century before its revival as a spiritual tool in the 1970s.

Under the pen name Etteilla, Jean-Baptiste Alliette, a Parisian print seller, pushed de Gébelin’s theories further, creating the first set of tarot cards meant to be used for fortune-telling.