It's interesting connection between Tarot and Kabbalah in the esoteric history, which is a real history, it is after all over 300 years old. There is some trickster stuff at work here. The Provencal Kabbalah has no relationship with the Tarot, but the Lurianic Kabbalah of the 16th and 17th century probably does. The Lurianic Kabbalah came out of the Sabbatians of the Turkish Empire/Poland, who had fled Spain after the expulsion. Some important Spanish Kabbalists were invited by the aristocratic house of 'D'Este (had a number of Tarot decks) to live in Ferrara. They were closely linked with the Middle East. The Tarot could have gone from Northern Italy into the Turkish Sabbatians. That is the form of the Kabbalah that had an influence on the occult.
It's interesting connection between Tarot and Kabbalah in the esoteric history, which is a real history, it is after all over 300 years old. There is some trickster stuff at work here. The Provencal Kabbalah has no relationship with the Tarot, but the Lurianic Kabbalah of the 16th and 17th century probably does. The Lurianic Kabbalah came out of the Sabbatians of the Turkish Empire/Poland, who had fled Spain after the expulsion. Some important Spanish Kabbalists were invited by the aristocratic house of 'D'Este (had a number of Tarot decks) to live in Ferrara. They were closely linked with the Middle East. The Tarot could have gone from Northern Italy into the Turkish Sabbatians. That is the form of the Kabbalah that had an influence on the occult.