Every trump named here has its own longer study on our site, gathered in a complete guide to the twenty-two Major Arcana, with Death, Temperance, the Tower and the Star good places to begin this month. The full table of letters, paths, planets and signs is laid out in one place in our guide to the twenty-two paths and their Tarot correspondences, and there is a free printable chart of the twenty-two paths you are welcome to keep beside your deck while you work through your own chart. And if the old book at the root of all this has caught your interest, we have published a free illustrated edition of the Sefer Yetzirah in PDF, with a shorter page on the three mothers, seven doubles and twelve simples that sets the text's own planetary order beside the Golden Dawn's.

Evelynne Joffe's twenty-class course, Living the Tree of Life · Part 2: The Twenty-Two Paths · each path taken slowly with its Hebrew letter, its Major Arcanum, its planet or sign, its myth and its practice · is available through Global Spiritual Studies, and the 2026 Cohort adds two live Q&A sessions with Evelynne, dates to be announced · globalspiritualstudies.com/sp/living-the-tree-of-life-part-2-the-paths/

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Short of sitting in a classroom with them, I may not be the best person to teach beginners how to read the tarot cards because supervised “learning by doing” is far more effective

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Most readers learn the thirty-six pip cards as a grab-bag of small scenes. But the Golden Dawn tied every one of them to a ten-day slice of the zodiac, so the Tarot has a calendar folded inside it. This article traces the decans from Egyptian star clocks to Book T and explains the wheel of signs and planets behind the cards. It reads the Three of Swords, Nine of Swords and Ten of Cups through their decans, lays out October's cards and shows you how to find your own card in your natal chart. Explore every card in our complete guide to the Minor Arcana.