Last month we found a calendar folded inside the thirty-six pip cards. This month we climb to the trumps. The twenty-two Major Arcana turn out to hold the whole working kit of astrology · three

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Short of sitting in a classroom with them, I may not be the best person to teach beginners how to read the tarot cards because supervised “learning by doing” is far more effective

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Near the beginning of Robert Anton Wilson’s book Prometheus Rising there is a drawing that shows a man contemplating a model of his private universe at its narrowest cross-section, completely ignorant of the

Most readers learn the thirty-six pip cards as a grab-bag of small scenes. But the Golden Dawn tied every one of them to a ten-day slice of the zodiac, so the Tarot has a calendar folded inside it. This article traces the decans from Egyptian star clocks to Book T and explains the wheel of signs and planets behind the cards. It reads the Three of Swords, Nine of Swords and Ten of Cups through their decans, lays out October's cards and shows you how to find your own card in your natal chart. Explore every card in our complete guide to the Minor Arcana.