Putting the deck together

Is it a Major or a Minor? If it is a Major, you have archetype and neighbourhood. Where does it sit on the road? What is the traditional weather you remember, even roughly? What is the picture doing?

If it is a Minor, name the suit and the element. Name the number or the court rank. Remember the stage of the Ace-to-Ten story, or the stance of the court. Then look at this picture. Reconstruct: this is the disruption stage of air, or this is fire in pursuit, or this is the seed of earth. Then let the image correct you.

You will still forget cards. Good readers forget cards. The difference is they have a way in that is not panic and a search engine.

Grammar gets you to the door. The picture is the room. The Six of Swords is often a moving-on in air, a passage. If your deck's image is brutal rather than quiet, believe the picture. Structure said passage. The image told you what kind.

That is why this is not a substitute for looking. It is what you do so looking has somewhere to stand. The next module trains the eyes properly. Do not skip it because you can now reconstruct a Five.

You turn over the Seven of Pentacles. You blank on the book meaning.

Minor. Pentacles: earth, work, crop, time. Seven: assessment, waiting, inner testing, what have you got and is it true? Image: a figure looking at a bush of coins, pausing, not harvesting yet.

Reconstructed: a pause in earth to assess the crop. Traditional notes will back you: patience, evaluation, delayed harvest, wondering if the work is worth it. You got there without a caption. Then you look up the library and see what you missed. That last step is research, not a rescue.