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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
the tarot was just a kind of mnemonic for the Knights Templars, a code language in picture format to tell their stories, plans, activities and history in secret while under the eye of the Popes and the Medici family.. the whole oracle aspect evolved later in ignorance as "pagan" and "superstitious" traditions were blended with the deck, in the same way we added numbers and shit to playing cards and made card games out of them..
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while Im aware of the Gardneresque moulding of pagan traditions(which seems to be what you're talking about), it doesn't mean scyring and using orcales of all kinds did not exist prior to the late 19th/early 20th century.
The author of the waite rider tarot deck was a Freemason. Modern Christianity has borrowed in abundance from ancient pagan ritual. I find it odd that you seem to say the modern day tarot has absolutely no link to its past, but is rather a bastardised version of something completely unrelated.
Sorry if that is not in the slightest what you are suggesting.