Occult The occult (from the Latin word occultus “clandestine, hidden, secret”) is “knowledge of the hidden”. In common usage, occult refers to “knowledge of the paranormal”, as opposed to “knowledge of the measurable”, usually referred to as science. This is how Wikipedia defines ‘Occult’. Tarot Card Reading is known as an Occult science. However, people are unaware of what the word Occult truly means. …