The origins of the tarot cards as we know them are lost in the murky depth of time, but they hold memories and half-forgotten truths  through their imagery, which is full of occult mysticism.  The standard tarot pack has 78 cards, comprising of Major and Minor Arcana (the word arcana means "profound secret"), and each card can represent a stage of our life's experience.  In a reading they are used as a divinatory tool, by which the cards are laid out in any number of spreads, and each position in the spread has a meaning just as each card itself has a meaning.  It is the art, skill and empathic abilities of the reader which brings about an interpretation of the cards.

I work primarily with clairvoyance, but I use the tarot cards as a tool to draw out the underlying issues and to help get to the heart of the problem.