At the same time, a negative myth of tarot was developed by the authorities in countries such as France. If that hadn't happened and that deck hadn't somehow made it into his hands I don't know if tarot would have survived as anything more than sort of an obscure game.

No longer just the domain of the wealthy and upper class, Tarot is available for anyone who wishes to take the time to learn it.For example, French Tarot was largely confined to Provence in the 18th century, but took off in the 1950s to such an extent that, in 1973, the French Tarot Association ( Fédération Française de Tarot) was formed and French Tarot itself is now the second most popular card game in France. In keeping with the unsubstantiated belief that such cards were derived from the Book of Thoth, Etteilla's tarot contained themes related to ancient Egypt.

In early 2019, the author signed a five year licensing deal with Australian mind-body-spirit publisher Rockpool Publishing to reprint the deck as the Occult Tarot for a broader audience. By the late 1300s Europeans were producing their own cards, the earliest patterns being based on the Mamluk deck but with variations to the suit symbols and court cards. Vague descriptions of game play or game terminology follow for the next two centuries until the earliest known complete description of rules for a French variant in 1637. In that book, Christian identifies the tarot trumps as representing the "principle scenes" [ dubious – discuss] of ancient Egyptian initiatory "tests".X. Schmid is of the Bourgeois Tarot type and has genre scenes similar to those of the Tarot Nouveau, but the Arabic numerals are centred as in the Adler-Cego pack. As for emoji spells and online sigil generators, finding new ways to be creative is inevitable, according to Grossman. This involves writing out an intention, condensing the letters and arranging the remaining letters into an image.