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(Mass Appeal) – If you’re like many people, you’ve heard of tarot cards before but you most likely have no idea what they are or what they mean. The concept seems part voodoo and very esoteric.

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“Every tarot reader has a different method for shuffling the cards,” Mariah Oller, creator of the Tarot of Life deck and owner of modern tarot resource Harvest and Moon tells Bustle.

The way it works is the person receiving the reading splits the tarot deck, determining where the reader begins to draw the cards. A psychic may interpret them card by card or as a spread of cards.

A modern tarot deck may strike you as an oxymoron; according to Robert Place in The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination, the cards developed in northern Italy in the early fifteenth century.