Pew Research Center has previously asked some other questions about topics covered in this report, though question wording has varied. Recently, in a 2024 survey of three dozen countries, 9% of U.S.

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 ...

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.

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.

In Balatro, there are a ton of ways to gain more power to improve yourself over the course of the run. One of the key ways to do this are through the consumable items known as Tarot Cards.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 1781, French pastor and occultist Antoine Court de Gébelin came across a tarot deck and concluded that “what he was looking at wasn’t an ordinary set of cards, but actually a concealed ...