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tarosophy

tarosophy noun: the art of reading tarot cards; tarotology.

Noun

tarosophy (uncountable)

  1. The art of reading tarot cards; tarotology.
    • Tarosophy, the esoteric doctrine of the Tarot.1957, “Books, pamphlets, serials, contributions to periodicals”, in Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series, Washington: The Library of Congress, Copyright Office, page 612, column 1
    • The Magazine of Tarosophy is a new journal put out by Tarot Professionals.2009 October 19, msesheta, “Mary K. Greer's Tarot Blog - The Tarosophist International”, in opentarotnexus

Examples of tarosophy in a sentence

  • Here we're using what is called in Tarosophy a “nonpositional” spread, where the cards themselves, rather than their positions, denote their meaning in the overall interpretation.2012, Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin, chapter II, in Tarot Face to Face: Using the Cards in Your Everyday Life, Woodbury, Minnesota...
  • Chrysalis Tarot was voted the Tarosophy Tarot Association's 2014 Deck of the Year and was a winner of a prestigious COVR 2015 Visionary Award and an International Tarot Association CARTA Award.2019 February 1, a9emxywo:
  • I saw Russell at Tarosophy Conference in Keswick (UK) last year, it was an outstanding presentation.2024 October 15, Russell Sturgess, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2024:

Origin of tarosophy

From taro(t) + -sophy.

Questions about tarosophy

What does tarosophy mean?
Tarosophy means the art of reading tarot cards; tarotology.
How do you use tarosophy in a sentence?
Here we're using what is called in Tarosophy a “nonpositional” spread, where the cards themselves, rather than their positions, denote their meaning in the overall interpretation.
What part of speech is tarosophy?
Tarosophy is a noun.

Words near tarosophy in the dictionary

  1. Taroon
  2. Taroona
  3. taropatch
  4. taropatches
  5. taros
  6. tarosophy
  7. tarot
  8. tarot card
  9. tarot cards
  10. tarotic
  11. tarotist

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