Similarities of Tarot vs Playing Cards

Tarot Deck has 78 cards and it is often use in western divination while the Playing Cards or Poker Cards deck has 52 regular cards, use for playing (but, probably has hidden agenda for divination, as the mainstream religion in the past used to clamp down Tarot for divination practices).

In a tradditional Tarot Deck there are 22 Major Arcana Cards and 56 Minor Arcana Cards.

Tarot appeared in Europe around 1400s. Some metaphysicians insist it is invented, while I believe discovered is a more appropriate term.

It might have been a tool given to humanity by “Enki”, and this deviated from “Enlil”; who could have doctrinated one of the mainstream religion to farm humanity’s consciousness energy. As such, this mainstream religion oppose the use of Tarot Cards and other forms of Metaphysics practices.

With this as the background, the users of Tarot (probably) improvise and took away the Major Arcana from the deck. Thus, keeping only the Minor Arcana. The Playing Cards deck + 4 Joker Cards (elusively hidden as 4 permutations of Sword, Wand, Cups and Pentacles: 1 to 10, + King, Queen, Knight and Page). Which still pretty much as efficient as a Tarot Deck for divination and destiny reading.

The Playing Cards Deck and Tarot, Minor Arcana Deck shares these similarities: Knight (Jack), Queen, and King. But, Tarot Deck has a Page (which is represented by Joker in Playing Cards Deck).

The challenge is using Playing Cards Deck for Tarot Divination and Destiny Reading is the lacking of pictorial assistance or cues. Pictures in a Tarot Deck helps Practitioner and Querent to connect better.

Which means, a lot of passion, hardwork and commitment during those times when Practitioner using Playing Cards; as they need to memorize all 56 representation of the Minor Arcana Deck to apply the interpretation onto a Playing Card Deck.

With that, I end by sharing the 4 suites’ relevant representation in the Playing Card Deck.

   • Wands = Clubs
   • Pentacles = Diamonds
   • Cups = Hearts
   • Swords = Spades

FuXi (伏羲) and the Sumerians

Sumerians or Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

The 2 iconic god representative are Enki and Enlil, has reptilians features and “estimated” that thy arrive on earth approx 300K years ago.

Enki represent the intelligence, wisdom, trickster entity. He acts like an administrator, cares and intervene at the human level. Giving humanity intelligence, alternative and choices. The one who presents itself to humanity. Hence, Humanity identifies it as the serpentine.

Enlil represent overarching, domineering entity. High and mighty, hidden away from humanity. And, doesn’t care about humanity. This entity represent the part that make use of humanity, perhaps farming humanities’ consciousness energy when humanity asks, wishes and prays.

If we go search about FuXi and NuWa avatar and pictures on the internet, you would probably find the 伏羲女娲图, that look like serpent images or half human half serpentine. According to folklore and legends, they are the saviours of humanity.

This serpent or reptilian images shares common link with Enki in the Sumerians Civilization, who made contact with humanity. Perhaps, that is why the practice of Feng Shui (风水) is negatively represented in certain mainstream religion.

Interestingly in TaiYi, the year calculation base figure (太乙计年数 : 10,155,901). For example, year 2021 is represented as 10,155,937 is much larger than the current Georgian Calendar or even the Chinese 甲子 which Practitioner are using for Feng Shui (风水). This instinctively or perhaps potentially could have some form of undiscovered linkages that was deliberately passed down by Enki or Sumerians Civilization.

Or perhaps, FuXi (伏羲) who act like an administrator deliberately given us the knowledge and tools of trigrams (八卦), HeTu (河图) and LuoShu (洛书); has the intention to give humanity these keys to improve and move away from being “farm animals” – avoiding our consciousness being farmed. And, being able to experience the next plane of consciousness.