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The 22 Major Arcana
The Major Arcana explore broad themes such as choice, structure, transition, hope and integration.
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A wider lens
Read these cards as a way to explore the larger question behind an immediate event. The Lovers, for example, asks about alignment and choice as well as relationship. Death addresses endings and renewal; it is not a prediction of physical death.
Numbering in this deck
Synastry numbers The Fool 0, Strength VIII, Justice XI and The World XXI. The card traditionally often called The Hanged Man is named The Hanged One here, matching the app. Other decks can use different names or numbering, so compare the named card as well as the number.
No hierarchy of importance
A Major Arcana card does not make a reading more true, urgent or destined. The Minor Arcana can offer equally useful detail about the daily choices through which a broad theme is lived.
Bring the card into a reading
Begin with one question and read the card’s theme in its spread position. For a birth-card lesson, compare the separately calculated cards in your numerology profile.
Connect the ideas
What Tarot can help you explore
Tarot offers a visual language for reflection. Begin with a question, meet a symbol and choose what is useful in your own life.
1 min readHow to read a Tarot card
Put the card’s theme, orientation and position together before deciding what it means for your question.
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An open question helps a reading become a conversation with your own judgment.
1 min readUpright and reversed cards
A reversed card changes the angle of reflection. It is not automatically a bad card or the opposite of the upright meaning.
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