Every year on May 25, World Tarot Day is celebrated. It is considered a professional holiday by all practitioners and consultants working with tarot cards. Therefore, it is also known as Tarolog Day.
The holiday has been celebrated since 2003 on the initiative of American tarot master Den Elder, who, faced with an increasing flow of incompetent and negative reviews in the media about specialists working in tarot technology, called for the establishment of World Day. According to Elder herself, she wanted tarot professionals around the world to be able to share the joy of learning the multifaceted and universal tool of prediction, and for amateurs and even the uninitiated to learn about the variety of positive properties of tarot.
Every year the holiday has become increasingly famous, and its motto is the words: «The Light you are looking for can be found in your own lantern».
Tarot cards – deck of 78 cards, known since the mid-14th century. In different European countries they were used for card games (Italian tarocchi, French tarot and Austrian Königrufen), some of them are still known today. For fortune telling, these maps began to be used from the late 18th century, especially in the countries of the Old and New Worlds. And today Tarot cards are a «tool for consulting», meditation and intuitive enlightenment for people working in this technique.
It must be said that a tarot reader is not a specialty –; this, according to the tarot specialists themselves, is a calling that must be taken with all seriousness and responsibility. After all, by interpreting maps, they give advice to people who turn to them with questions.
Therefore, today tarot readers can celebrate their professional holiday, gather in a circle of like-minded people for seminars or master classes, and everyone interested in Tarot – can learn about these fortune-telling techniques.