The History of Tarot
Tarot began as a 15th-century Italian card game and slowly grew into one of the deepest tools of modern self-knowledge.
The earliest surviving Tarot decks — such as the Visconti-Sforza — were painted in the courts of northern Italy for a trick-taking game called Tarocchi. No divinatory use is recorded from that era; they were an aristocratic pastime.
In the 18th century, French mystics — especially Court de Gébelin and Etteilla — linked Tarot to Egyptian wisdom and Kabbalah, framing it for the first time as a symbolic language for exploring the soul.
The 19th and 20th centuries, through Éliphas Lévi, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and finally the Rider-Waite-Smith and Thoth decks, shaped the Tarot we know today: 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana cards, full of symbols that bridge the unconscious and everyday awareness.
Today Tarot is read across the world in every living language. Tarot Farsi carries that same ancient language, sung in tune with Persian culture, poetry and spirit.