Every page you read
puts a star in the sky

The Lantern

• About tarotWhat the 78 cards are · Three traditions at a glance
• How to readFrom the question to the journal · A worked three-card sample
• ReversedBlocked, inward or excessive · Three ways to read a reversal
• AskingThe art of the question · Rewrite a bad one live
• GlossaryWhen a term loses its footing · Decan, sephirah, dignity

The Loom

• ElementsFire, Water, Air, Earth · How they map to the four suits
• SuitsWands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles · Four worlds of the Minors
• Court cardsPage, Knight, Queen, King · Sixteen figures
• NumerologyAce to Ten · The grammar of numbers in the pips
• Birth CardsYour Personality and Soul cards, worked out from your birthday
• Birth ChartYour natal chart on a wheel you can turn, worked out in your browser

The Interpreter

• Reading frameworksFour methods · Positional / Narrative / Dialogic / Intuitive
• Design a spreadGrammar · five structures · workshop for one question
• Combinations44 pairings, each read as a frame for inquiry
• SymbolsSeven-category index across all 78 cards

The Tides

• MoonEight phases · Spreads for the lunar cycle
• PracticeDaily rhythm · Journaling · Meditation · 21-day start
• TimingRhythm over calendar · Element density, the tension curve
• Deck careCleansing · activation · lending · retirement
• EthicsThe line between a mirror and a prophecy

The Lyre

• AstrologyMajors · 36 decans · Court coverage · Golden Dawn
• The twelve signsElement, mode, ruling planet · The cards of each sign
• The seven planetsHermetic correspondences · Their signs, decans and cards
• The 36 decansTen-degree slices of the zodiac · One pip card each
• KabbalahTree of Life · 10 sephirot × 4 worlds + 22 paths
• Hermetic QabalahWhere all 78 cards sit on the Tree of Life
• Hebrew letters22 letters, 22 Majors · Mothers, Doubles, Simples

The Mirror

• ArchetypesJungian archetypes · Cross-cultural mythic echoes
• PsychologyTarot as journaling · Projection · Synchronicity · Jung
• ColorsGolden Dawn King Scale · Grammar of twelve hues
• Archetype TestEleven everyday questions · one Major Arcana as your mirror

The Wellspring

• HistoryWhere tarot came from · Six centuries of lineage
• FiguresTwelve biographies · Waite, Smith, Crowley, Harris, Pollack
• Deck familiesMarseille · Rider-Waite-Smith · Thoth · how to choose
• MythsCommon misconceptions · Untangled one by one
• QuestionsThirty answers · For beginners and skeptics alike
• Your physical deckUnboxing, storage, cleansing · Opening a new deck

The Distant Kin

• I Ching · Tarot64 hexagrams · six lines · resonance, not equivalence
• Lenormand36 cards · combinatorial grammar · a different paradigm
• Elder Futhark24 runes · three aetts · honest about appropriation
• Playing cardsFrom Mamluk cards, two branches · the trionfi and the 52-card pack

The Fool's Road

• Memory PracticeBind the deck to memory · ten-question quiz
• Fool's JourneyThe 22 Majors as one initiatory arc · Campbell × Pollack
• Fool's Journey · ImmersiveTwenty-two stations as a silent film · 3–5 minutes