The Major Arcana

These brief descriptions of the major arcana are also available at the show to help the audience follow the readings.

0 - The Fool - absolute Unity; no-thingness; divine potential; sees clearly; embraces life fully

1 - The Magician - manifestation; communication; gods' intermediary in human affairs

2 - High Priestess - divine mother; intuition; trust; waters of pure consciousness; listening

3 - The Empress - mother Earth; the universal womb; beauty; creativity; pleasure

4 - The Emperor - leadership; courage; determination; clarity; stability; divine Reason

5 - The Hierophant - "priest of the sacred mysteries"; teacher; inner-listening; guidance

6 - The Lovers - duality; communication; integrating opposites; divine Love

7 - The Chariot - awareness; navigate through our feeling nature; receptivity

8 - Strength - creative self-expression; power; desire; passion; embracing fears

9 - The Hermit - listening to the voice within; inner integrity without need of outer approval

10 - The Wheel of Fortune - continuous change; opportunity; expansion; greater center; cause/ effect

11 - Justice - balance; harmony; beauty; truth of the heart

12 - The Hanged Man - total surrender; changing patterns; seeing things as they are

13 - Death - transformation; rebirth; hidden mysteries; shedding the past; release

14 - Temperance - essence of creativity; assimilation of attraction/repulsion; exploration

15 - Devil - limitations; patterns of behavior; illusion of separateness; Pan (nature god)

16 - The Tower - aggression; war; raw sexual instinct; fertility; catharsis; ego complex

17 - The Star - inspiration; creative progress; joining of material and spiritual; meditation

18 - The Moon - collective unconscious; dreams; bodily wisdom; unknown fears; deep emotion

19 - The Sun - unconditional love; illumination; immortality; compassion; bright joy

20 - Judgement - transformation by fire; mass events; beyond space/time; depths of the unconscious

21 - The World - universal dancer; completion; boundaries; gravitation; the magnetic attractor


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Tarot Journey

Lola Tarot's David Ray elaborates on the major arcana.

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