The oldest surviving set of tarot cards, the Visconti-Sforza deck, dates to 16th-century Italy. But the tarot was truly adopted for purposes of fortune telling in France around 1780 — and hit ...

exploring the evolution of tarot from the earliest-surviving examples, represented here by an exquisite pair of cards from a deck made for the Milanese Visconti-Sforza dynasty in the 15th century.

In recent years, the act of reading tarot seems more concerned with signalling worldly social justice issues than communing ...