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Today I was reading about the beinging of Tarot and the different groups that made tarot.
I learned the meaning of the different suits and court cards.
To me the golden dawn and crowley worked together at one time and then the
golden dawn distanced themselves from crowley and there teachings. The Temple of Set followed
the teaching of crowley. Aleister crowley based there teaching on the princess of the planets or angels
ruling certain aspects of the zodiac. They were the ones that made the tarot decks and teachings for the beinging.

Hi sassylady,

It is great to work with you, and be able to help you along. Although the Golden Dawn still exist, they are not as active as they were earlier, or perhaps not as much on the news.

I wonder if you could perhaps look on the net, how Crowley and AE Waite became involved with them? Just "in short" as you have done the above.

Blessed be.

That was a good input Sassylady....

Keep it up please.

2/3/11
A Very short introduction of the Tarot.
I’ve read some Interesting things that about the Tarot history.
Straight from the book “Reading The Tarot” by Leo Louis Martello:
“During the dark ages they were called the “devil’s pasteboards” when The Inquisition made reading of them crime punishable by death by burning at the stake.”  (Pg 1.)
“In 1404, The Catholic Church forbade their priests to even touch the cards. Yet it was during this period that card making became a regular trade in Germany. This country even had its own Card Maker’s Guild.”  (Pg 1.)
“In 1440 Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, Germany invented movable type. “  (Pg 1.) This made the printing of Tarot cards, among other things, easier and more affordable with this new form of mass production in Europe.   The Tarot cards became more popular.  
To skip a lot of history known and not known we have the Tarot cards today.
Some of the history and images of the card help us read them better.   Like the picture symbolism for the RW deck.  Ex: A recent discussion between me and Payewacker about the images of the Caduceus and the Rod of Asclepius on the II of Cups.  Knowing what those are and mean will help you read the cards..  I see the Caduceus or Rod of Asclepius and I think of healing because that is the history behind them.  Therefore in a reading I just might read that healing maybe close if my intuition was telling me that.  (Although I would be very careful not to do any medical prediction what so ever) .
I don’t use color symbolism or Number symbolism in my Tarot readings yet but keep in mind the colors in the cards and the numbers have meanings too.  Those meanings including imagery of the cards come from the history of the Tarot moving through country to country, century to century etc.