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Theory

| In its original form Tarot is a universal language knowing of no boundaries. People coming from different environments and belonging to different civilizations, persons who do not speak or read one and the same language can possibly establish communication using the symbolic language of Tarot. The 21 Major Arcana (not including the Fool, that bears no number, thus, conditionally speaking, being out of the deck) are divided into seven groups of three or 3 groups of seven. In each group of three the first element is active and corresponds to spirit; the next is passive in relation to the preceding one, active in sense of the one that follows, and corresponds to the soul; the third element is absolutely passive, and relates to body. Relations are also these same ones between the three groups of seven cards: cards marked I-VII bear significance of spirit, VII-XIV that of soul, while the XV-XXI are attached the value of body. Thus each card is possible to interpret as spirit and soul, or as soul and body, depending on the position within the group. Within each group of seven the first three cards are opposed to the next three, the seventh one unifying them. Each card's values change depending on relations within a whole. Tarot is closely connected with the Zodiac and the planets. Astrological attributions are very precise, however also allowing establishment of an exceptionally broad range of relations between individual cards. Cabalistic interpretation of the Tarot is linked to the value of letters in Hebrew Alphabet, and to interpretation of the Tree of Life as the overall picture of relations in the Universe. This interpretation understands in itself a chain of levels of essence, everything in the same being linked by means of magic.
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