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Mike Stone believes in the tarot; a deck of cards created in the medieval times to help predict the future. He has an unparalleled theory about the tarot's history and how each one of the twenty-two 'major arcana' cards has their own story of origination. His thoughts on how they work in the prediction of the future, and his personal thoughts on the tarot, are also unusual in the relation to the general beliefs of the intriguing cards.
He believes the cards were created anywhere from the 13th to the 15th century. There are fifty-six minor arcana cards that have four suits of fourteen cards: wands, cups, swords, and pentacles. Then there are twenty-two major arcana cards, each one having their own unique illustration and interpretation. Mike Stone believes that each one of these major arcana cards, marked 0 through 21 , represents a general idea that reflects the number of the card to a specific century. For example: the Magician, the number 1 card, reflects the first century; the 15th card represents the 15th century, and so on. Since the cards were created in medieval times, it would not make sense for the cards following the 13th, 14th, and 15th, to represent an idea from their century. Mike Stone believes that they predicted the following centuries and made the cards according to what they believed would be the pinnacle idea of each century, and also believes their predictions were as accurate as possible...