Tarot
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This article is about the general history, iconography, and uses of tarot cards. For the use of Tarot cards in Fortune telling, see Tarot reading. For the traditional European card games played with tarot cards see Tarocchi. For the French card game, see tarot (game). For other uses, see tarot (disambiguation).

The tarot is a set of cards featuring 21 trump cards, the fool, and an extra face card per suit, in addition to the usual suit (face and pip) cards found in ordinary playing cards. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games.[1]

In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes[1][2] with the trump cards along with the Fool card comprising the 22 major arcana cards and the pip and four face cards the 56 minor arcana.