Tarot cards fascinate and attract a huge number of people. They attract artists, historians, psychologists, occultists, as well as all those who want to look behind the veil of secrecy with the help of cards and get clues in difficult periods of their lives.
Today only esoteriological studies on Tarot cards can be found with great difficulty. These are works in which traditional historians explore the origins of cards, traditional art critics study the influence of the imagery of Tarot cards on world art, and classical psychologists focus their attention on the connection between the Tarot Arcana and Jung’s archetypes and the collective unconscious.
We have not been able to find a single study in which the Tarot cards were studied by themselves, as a phenomenon, and not in connection with another discipline. Because of the fact that such studies, if any, are extremely small, we are talking about “Initial Research”, which will help to answer only the most basic questions about the Tarot cards, and, possibly, to debunk the most common myths. About 400 people (who have not studied the Tarot cards before) take part in a series of experiments to help shed light on the following difficult questions. How do Tarot cards work? What do they show? Do Tarot cards predict the future? Are there “good” and “bad” Tarot decks? And also many other questions.
This is a very voluminous and rigorous project that we intend to complete in five years, by 2024.