Module 02 · The deck as language
Learn Tarot
What tarot is. How a seventy-eight card deck is built. Majors, minors, suits, elements, numbers, courts. Learn the house before you rearrange the furniture.
- 01What tarot isA visual language for asking honest questions. Not a verdict machine.
- 02What a tarot deck isSeventy-eight cards that talk to each other. How to begin with one.
- 03The structure of the deckMajors, minors, four suits, numbered cards, courts. The architecture.
- 04Major ArcanaTwenty-two archetypal cards. Bigger weather. Thresholds and turning points.
- 05Minor ArcanaFifty-six cards of lived, daily, situational language. Not second-class.
- 06The four suitsWands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles. Fire, water, air, earth. Four fields of life.
- 07Numbers within tarotAce through Ten as a developing story in each suit. Number plus suit plus image.
- 08Court cardsPeople, parts of self, behaviour, development. Context decides.
- 09How the parts speak to each otherWhy the structure matters when you read a spread, not only when you study.
- 10How to begin working with a deckHandling, shuffling, drawing, looking after the tool. Simple and practical.
- 11Traditional meanings as foundationHonour the book. Then learn to build on it. Do not abandon it.