Tarot was developed in Western Europe sometime between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as a card game. T he earliest references to tarot all date to the mid-1400s in northern Italy. It wasn't until the Enlightenment period that people started connecting the symbology of the cards to different religions and mystical beliefs, thus turning it from a game into a tool for the occult. Although tarot is now mostly associated with the occult, fortune tellers, and all manner of