The 22 Major Arcana

The Major Arcana describe the large structural phases of a life — not events that will happen to you, but the shape of what you are already inside. Each entry covers the upright and reversed reading, and what the card usually means when it appears in an actual spread.

0
The Fool
The Fool represents a beginning made before you have proof it will work
I
The Magician
The Magician marks the point where intention becomes execution
II
The High Priestess
The High Priestess describes knowledge you already have but have not admitted to yourself
III
The Empress
The Empress is about what grows when it is tended
IV
The Emperor
The Emperor is the card of structure that makes things hold
V
The Hierophant
The Hierophant is about inherited frameworks
VI
The Lovers
The Lovers is less about romance than about alignment
VII
The Chariot
The Chariot is directed will
VIII
Strength
Strength is the card of patience as a form of power
IX
The Hermit
The Hermit describes deliberate withdrawal
X
Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune marks a turn you did not cause
XI
Justice
Justice is the card of consequence
XII
The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man describes a pause that changes the question
XIII
Death
Death is the ending that makes the next thing possible
XIV
Temperance
Temperance is the card of synthesis
XV
The Devil
The Devil is the card of attachment mistaken for need
XVI
The Tower
The Tower is the collapse of a structure that was built on something untrue
XVII
The Star
The Star is the card of recovery that has actually begun
XVIII
The Moon
The Moon describes a situation you cannot currently see clearly
XIX
The Sun
The Sun is the card of clarity that requires no effort
XX
Judgement
Judgement is the card of reckoning
XXI
The World
The World is completion
Draw your own three cards