Your exact dates are debatable; here's a good piece (https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-surprising-origins-of-tarot-most-misunderstood-cards/ https:/

Your exact dates are debatable; here's a good piece (https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-surprising-origins-of-tarot-most-misunderstood-cards/ https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-surprising-ori...) that has a good history of the older decks. (tl;dr: a bit older than that, though the 'divinatory' use was much more like kids playing MASH (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(game)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MASH_(game))) The thing is, when they did make up the Tarot meanings, they were basically just mappings onto ideas with an older provenance: the four suits became the four elements, elements map onto astrological meanings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_the_classical_elements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_the_classical_el...), and so on and so forth. You get to those astrological houses, and you've gotten back to the Babylonians. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(astrology)#Early_forms_of_house_division https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(astrology)#Early_forms_...) From my understanding, the interpretations and methods of the I Ching have been just as historically variant. I think there's nothing more or less serious about these different systems if you like one or another better.