tarosophy

English

Etymology

From taro(t) +‎ -sophy.

Noun

tarosophy (uncountable)

1. The art of reading tarot cards; tarotology.
   • 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:

     Tarosophy, the esoteric doctrine of the Tarot.

   • 2009 October 19, msesheta, “Mary K. Greer's Tarot Blog - The Tarosophist International”, in opentarotnexus‎^[1]:

     The Magazine of Tarosophy is a new journal put out by Tarot Professionals.

   • 2012, Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin, chapter II, in Tarot Face to Face: Using the Cards in Your Everyday Life, Woodbury, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, page 20:

     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.

   • 2019 February 1, a9emxywo‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2024 October 15, Russell Sturgess‎^[3]:

     I saw Russell at Tarosophy Conference in Keswick (UK) last year, it was an outstanding presentation.