The Major Arcana — a journey in twenty-two images

Where to begin

A tarot deck has seventy-eight cards. Twenty-two of them, the Major Arcana, can be read as one long story. The Fool sets out with nothing but trust, and card by card meets the forces a life has to learn to live with: will and intuition, love and choice, loss, patience, sudden change, hope. The journey ends with the World, where a circle closes and the next one opens.

That story is the spine of this path. Each card is a stage of it — and each of us is somewhere along the way.

A mirror, not a prediction

I do not read the cards to tell you what will happen. A card does not decide; it shows. When the Tower appears, it is not announcing a disaster. It is asking what, in your life, has been built on ground that no longer holds.

Read this way, the tarot is a language of images for what is already moving in you. Naming it is the first step in choosing how to meet it.

How to walk this path

Start with the card that stops you — the one you like, or the one you would rather not look at. Ask it three questions: What do I see? What does it remind me of? What is it asking of me? Write the answers down before you read anything about the card's traditional meaning.

A practice to begin with

Draw one card in the morning. Do not look up its meaning. Look at it for one minute, then carry the image through the day. In the evening, notice where you met it.