By reading the Tarot deck map the Knights Templar were lead to King Solomon's Mines. The Tarot cards map resulted in a vast fortune in Tarot gold secretly flowing into Europe, creating the wealth of the renaissance. The Tarot cards map and the Tarot poem were used during the Crusades.

     The key to Tarot map reading was lost in 1370 AD. Without the Tarot poem key, the art of Tarot reading of the Tarot cards map lost its meaning. The key was how to lay out the cards in numerical order and how to read the odd pictures as a rebus to reproduce the original poem. Without the key, the Tarot deck then seemed only for being "laid out" and "telling your fortune." Since 1370 AD when the key was lost the strange deck of cards has only been known as "fortune telling" cards. But actually they were an arcane or secret treasure map which would tell you how to find your fortune, if you knew the key to reading the verbal road map.

     The site of the ancient mine is near the Israeli-Jordanian border and has been under armed military border guard for the last 50 years, though no one knows the mine is there. Because of the guards, when you solve the "riddle" of the Tarot poem, you may still find it difficult to reach the entrance of the mine.

I can show you:

* How to "lay out" the Tarot cards in numerical order in three rows,

* One row for each verse, with the unnumbered FOOL card as the moveable stanza card for each of the octet verses.

* How to "read" the original 12th century French Tarot Ballade (an early French poem style from The Provence in southern France near Marseilles)

* How to find exactly where to locate "your fortune" in King Solomon's Mines.

To decode the Tarot poem you would need to know about:

* Ancient and modern astronomy and navigation,

* medieval map making,

* Early forms of European government,

* Medieval clothing styles,

* The history of the Crusades, and the Knights Templar,

* The ancient history and geography of the Middle East.