The 22 cards of the Major Arcana have probably inspired more analysis than nearly any other works in history with the exception of the works of William Shakespeare and the Bible. Each of the cards represents an archetype or concept, a step along the path from inspiration to completion. Over the course of its history, Tarot readers have associated the cards with various other systems of wisdom and symbolism. Analysts of the cards have drawn comparisons to mythology, Biblical themes, Wiccan themes, Jungian psychology, personal development, the steps to enlightenment, Masonic training, the Zodiac, numerology, the Kabbalah and much, much more. The reality is that the 22 cards of the Major Arcana fit all of these paradigms, often without any sort of twisting -- and that is the true beauty of the Tarot. The archetypes and concepts are universal and relative to almost any system of belief.
Over the years of my own Tarot practice, I've subscribed to many of the different theories of how Tarot is structured and how the pieces fit together. There is an obvious order
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