The whole deck on one page

In the last lesson you met The Fool. Today you get the map of the entire territory, so nothing in the deck ever feels random again.

Every tarot deck has 78 cards, split into two worlds:

The Major Arcana — 22 cards. These are the big ones: The Fool, The Lovers, Death, The Tower, The World. Capital-letter themes — identity, love, endings, upheaval, completion. When a Major shows up, the traditional reading is: this matters at the level of who you are, not just what you're doing this week.

The Minor Arcana — 56 cards. These are daily life: work, friendship, money worries, small victories, restless nights. They come in four suits — Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles — and each suit runs from Ace to Ten, plus four court cards. If the Majors are the chapters of a life, the Minors are the scenes.

Here's the reassuring part: those 56 Minor cards aren't 56 separate things to memorize. Each one is just a suit crossed with a number — two small systems that combine like grammar. Learn 4 suits + 10 numbers and you can work out most of the deck from first principles. That's the trick the “memorize all 78!” guides never tell you.