This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Waves of wackiness are sweeping the U.S., as ...

There’s nothing wrong with seeing a tarot reader, one writer argues—as long as they’re augmenting your time with a therapist, ...

If I ask you what comes to mind when you think about tarot, there are a number of clichés you could conjure up: secret societies steeped in mystery; seedy psychic shops in strip malls of small towns ...

We’re talking tarot, folks. Humans have been dancing with divination since time immemorial, but the oldest surviving set of tarot cards, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, dates to 16th-century Italy.