The Playing Tarot-It's More Fun to Compute

"Tarot cards are part of pop culture these days. They have nothing to do with the occult,"" Stephanie Conover, Miss Canada Plus 2007
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=278606
There are two types of Tarot deck.

The Italian suited Tarot

The traditional Italian suited deck of coins, cups, swords, and batons is currently favored by those using Tarot for divination, although in some countries such as Italy and Switzerland such decks are still used for game playing. Those practicing Tarot divination often call the coins "pentacles" and the batons "wands." With few exceptions, the trump scenes of Italian suited Tarots differ little from deck to deck and are often seen by Tarot readers as containing symbolic meaning. The depictions of a Popess (II) and Pope (V) on Italian suited Tarots have been controversial in some areas. In Switzerland, these images were replaced by depictions of Juno (II) and Jupiter (V). In Bologna Italy, the papal figures along with the Empress (III) and the Emperor (IV) were replaced by four Moorish figures which are unnumbered and act as trumps of equal rank in the Bolognese variety of Tarocchi. The Italian or Spanish suit system is not confined to Tarot cards. This suit system is a common regional pattern of conventional playing cards in Southern Europe and in Latin America.

The French suited Tarot

The more modern deck using the French or international suits of diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs is now used in such countries as France and Austria for game playing. In France and in southern Germany, the Roman numerals have been abandoned in favor of Arabic numbers, while in some countries such as Austria, the Roman numerals are still used. The trump images of French suited Tarots often depict arbitrary scenes of people at work and at play, animals both actual and mythological, and landscapes of regional locales. In some regions, such as Austria and southern Germany, the deck is shortened to 54 cards by the removal of the lowest ranking pip cards. Unlike the Italian suited decks, there is a great variety of imagery on the trump cards of French suited Tarots. On French suited Tarot decks, the Fool is often depicted as a musician, a harlequin, or some other kind of entertainer. French suited Tarots are seldom used for divination.

The deck used here is my own creation combining features of these 2 types of Tarots. I've used images which are now in the public domain which I have digitally retouched and colorized
Links to these images are given below
http://mxat.ru/WWPCM/decks02/d00638/d00638.htm
http://mxat.ru/WWPCM/decks05/d02971/d02971.htm
I've used these images because they are a part of pop culture.
Again I am using the tarobot program
http://www.techniv.com/tarobot/
The music is "It's More Fun to Compute" by Kraftwerk
"The Playing Tarot" cards are public domain and are available at wikicommons. You have to do your own printing though.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Oudler
This video is dedicated to Stephanie Conover, Miss Canada Plus 2007

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[Duckhugger]

Somehow I must have missed this when you put it up originally. Nice, although I'd love to see more videos with your voice talking over stuff like before.

Just recently downloaded and started playing with the Tarobot program myself... although It's a little confusing for me since I don't even really know where to begin when it comes to stuff in French! I wish someone would make an English for that thing... hmmn...

[Oudler]

Have you tried tarotux? It's an English language program.

[k97cross]

interesting...lol...very precise

[Oudler]

Thanks