The Major Arcana

Twenty-two cards that name the large movements of a life.

The Major Arcana are the numbered cards from The Fool at zero to The World at twenty-one. Read in order they trace a journey: setting out with nothing, meeting teachers and tests, losing the plot, finding it again, and arriving somewhere you could only reach by going through. Read one at a time, each is a lens on a moment you are already living.

When a major appears in a spread it tends to carry more weight than a pip card. It points at the theme running underneath the situation. Death describes an ending you may already feel; The Tower names the structure that no longer holds; The Star is the quiet after both. Each one asks you to look at what is true and decide what to do with it.

Every card below has its own page: the image and its symbols, upright and reversed meanings across love, career, self, decisions, and spirit, one practice to try today, and prompts to sit with. Pull the card and read for your own question whenever you like.