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Tarot — Seventy-Eight Doors to the Subconscious
A Renaissance card game that became the West's most beloved mirror for questions of love, work and fate.
The tarot deck holds 78 cards: 22 major arcana marking life's great turning points — the Fool, the Lovers, Death, the Star — and 56 minor arcana tracing everyday joys and struggles. A reading lays cards into a spread, each position asking a different question of the querent's situation.
Modern readers treat the cards less as fixed prophecy than as a mirror: images old enough and strange enough to surface what you already sense but have not yet said aloud.