This vintage style, illustrated crescent moon within the sun tarot card style t-shirt features the phrase “ The Future is in Your Hands.” A great power we all possess.

The Future is in Your Hands Tarot Card Style T-Shirt

Material: Cotton
Sizes: S,M,L,XL,XXL
Printed pattern: Tarot Cards T-Shirt

Though today we associate them with the occult, tarot cards were originally just another card game—one similar to a modern-day bridge. Like other decks, the first recorded tarot cards showed up in Europe in the 15th century, with the most popular sets selling in Italy to wealthy families. The printing press had yet to arrive, and since hand-painted cards were all that existed, it cost a considerable amount of cash to commission what were essentially dozens of teensy paintings.

Like any deck, these early tarot cards—tarocchi cards, in Italian—had suits, trump cards, and even pips. Since they hadn’t yet become an excuse to dip into the occult, the only reason anyone thought to disapprove was when the cards led to excessive gambling.

While some people dabbled, the widespread use of tarot cards for divination only took off in the late 1700s, when Frenchman Jean-Baptise Alliette published the first definitive guide to tarot card reading. Pseudonymised, Etteilla, he wrote a guide to using the cards and released his own deck alongside it. He gave meaning to each of the cards, incorporating beliefs about astronomy and the four elements. He claimed to have borrowed heavily from the Book of Thoth, an Egyptian text supposedly written by Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom. - www.bicyclecards.com