The Major Arcana
The Major Arcana consists of 21 numbered cards, and card 0, The Fool. The Major Arcana tells a story, a metaphor for the journey of life often referred to as ‘The Fool’s Journey.’ The Fool is fresh, new, and spontaneous: the card of beginnings. The cards of the Major Arcana depict various archetypes and universal themes that are encountered along the way. Some consider this journey a linear path, while others believe that any stage of the journey could happen at any time. In readings, Major Arcana cards deal with the most significant aspects of life. They are a big deal. When a Major Arcana card comes up, it is to be listened to.
The Fool is about joyfully commencing an unknown journey, filled with the belief that although you don’t know where you are going, it’s the right direction. This is a card of limitless possibility. In readings, the Fool urges you to throw caution to the wind and go on a wild adventure. Leave behind any fear of what might go wrong and throw yourself wholeheartedly into new experiences and growth.
What this means for you specifically can vary, but it has to involve taking a risk. Take a road trip, go on that date, get a dog. If it’s kind of brilliant and kind of insane at the same time, the Fool wants you to do it. Now is not a time to be still. You are wild, free, and excited about it. Jump, and trust the universe to catch you.
The Fool bears the number 0 because he is the protagonist of the Major Arcana. Though the Fool is often considered an archetype, he is also a stand-in for the self as we progress down the different roads of life. The Major Arcana is often called the ‘Fool’s Journey’, and we can think of The Fool as present in each card, experiencing the moment with us.
The Fool is about joyfully commencing an unknown journey, filled with the belief that although you don’t know where you are going, it’s the right direction. This is a card of limitless possibility. In readings, the Fool urges you to throw caution to the wind and go on a wild adventure. Leave behind any fear of what might go wrong and throw yourself wholeheartedly into new experiences and growth.
What this means for you specifically can vary, but it has to involve taking a risk. Take a road trip, go on that date, get a dog. If it’s kind of brilliant and kind of insane at the same time, the Fool wants you to do it. Now is not a time to be still. You are wild, free, and excited about it. Jump, and trust the universe to catch you.
The Magician symbolizes the concept of manifestation. He draws energy from his surroundings and directs them to create or manipulate something. This card wants you to do the same. Channel all your obsessions, experience, excitement, and resources. Get in there and make something.
In readings, the Magician urges you to dream big, and get ready to make it happen. Let’s go back to the lightning rod metaphor. The Magician draws the energies down, through him, then releases them into the earth. This is not the kind of energy one can keep up 24/7, and you may associate it with mania or obsessive tendencies. The key is to channel and release this energy in a productive way. To act is to direct your strength in specific directions. In her book Kitchen Table Tarot, Melissa Cynova says, “This card always reminds me that we are magic” (38). When the Magician card appears, it adds potential to the entire reading. You are creative and powerful. Make it happen.
The Magician is a lightning rod. He holds a wand up to the sky, drawing energy down from the universe. His other hand points down, channeling the magic through his body to the earth below. The objects of the four suits float around him.
The Magician symbolizes the concept of manifestation. He draws energy from his surroundings and directs them to create or manipulate something. This card wants you to do the same. Channel all your obsessions, experience, excitement, and resources. Get in there and make something.
In readings, the Magician urges you to dream big, and get ready to make it happen. Let’s go back to the lightning rod metaphor. The Magician draws the energies down, through him, then releases them into the earth. This is not the kind of energy one can keep up 24/7, and you may associate it with mania or obsessive tendencies. The key is to channel and release this energy in a productive way. To act is to direct your strength in specific directions. In her book Kitchen Table Tarot, Melissa Cynova says, “This card always reminds me that we are magic” (38). When the Magician card appears, it adds potential to the entire reading. You are creative and powerful. Make it happen.
The High Priestess is darkness, psychic power, and all the mysterious sides of the feminine archetype. She has access to the collective unconscious. The Fool meets her early in his journey, before he is ready to understand what that means.
The High Priestess instructs you to turn inward. We are like the High Priestess every time we read the cards. Meditate, journal, make art, do anything that gets you in touch with that part of you that’s difficult to consciously access. This may look, in practicality, like stillness. You don’t have access to what is behind that veil yet. Take your time, look inward, and believe what you see.
The High Priestess is a woman of mystery. The veil behind her is decorated with pomegranates, linking her to Persephone (Roman Proserpina), goddess of spring and queen of the underworld. She wears the triple moon symbol of the goddess on her head, linking her to femininity and lunar power. Behind the veil, we glimpse water, which in tarot symbolizes the unconscious. We are not forbidden from walking between the trees; we just don’t know how yet. The High Priestess holds a book, which many think of as the Torah, representing divine wisdom. In older decks (see Tarot of Marseille for an example), this card is labeled ‘The Papess,’ meaning woman pope.
The High Priestess is darkness, psychic power, and all the mysterious sides of the feminine archetype. She has access to the collective unconscious. The Fool meets her early in his journey, before he is ready to understand what that means.
The High Priestess instructs you to turn inward. We are like the High Priestess every time we read the cards. Meditate, journal, make art, do anything that gets you in touch with that part of you that’s difficult to consciously access. This may look, in practicality, like stillness. You don’t have access to what is behind that veil yet. Take your time, look inward, and believe what you see.
The Empress embodies the warmer aspects of the feminine archetype. She is the nurturer. She is abundance. She represents gentleness and connection to nature, as well as both motherly and romantic love. Despite the fact that these qualities are clearly ideas about women written by men, and do not at all describe a multi-dimensional person, the Empress represents something quite grand. Whether we are discussing her as a mother, a lover, or a connection to nature, there is one brilliant common thread: a whole-hearted and unreserved approach to life.
In some readings, the Empress may specifically be a stand-in for your mother, a maternal figure in your life, or the mother of your children. In a more general sense, the Empress urges you to live as passionately as she does. Love your partners, all children, the earth, and yourself. Live passionately, kindly, and with unconstrained feeling. Context will determine what ‘living passionately’ means to you.
The Empress sits surrounded by nature. Grain grows at her feet, linking her to the cycles of the earth, the harvest, and the goddess Demeter (Roman Ceres). The sign of Aphrodite (Roman Venus) is carved on the stump beneath her. Her crown bears twelve stars for the signs of the Zodiac. Poetically put, “she wears the universe as her jewelry.” (Pollack 46)
The Empress embodies the warmer aspects of the feminine archetype. She is the nurturer. She is abundance. She represents gentleness and connection to nature, as well as both motherly and romantic love. Despite the fact that these qualities are clearly ideas about women written by men, and do not at all describe a multi-dimensional person, the Empress represents something quite grand. Whether we are discussing her as a mother, a lover, or a connection to nature, there is one brilliant common thread: a whole-hearted and unreserved approach to life.
In some readings, the Empress may specifically be a stand-in for your mother, a maternal figure in your life, or the mother of your children. In a more general sense, the Empress urges you to live as passionately as she does. Love your partners, all children, the earth, and yourself. Live passionately, kindly, and with unconstrained feeling. Context will determine what ‘living passionately’ means to you.
The natural world is chaotic and dangerous, and the structures built and enforced by society protect us from this chaos. At worst, the Emperor represents a constrictive hierarchy that many of us recognize as systemically racist, sexist and classist. Progressively, we can choose to read the Emperor as a civilization that can be democratically shaped for the better.
In readings, the Emperor often represents your father or a father figure. He may also represent any authority figure who holds power over you: your boss, a cop, a soldier. The Emperor could also represent a masculine romantic partner, especially if there is a power imbalance in the relationship. In situational readings, The Emperor urges you to stand up for yourself, assert leadership, create structure, and think rationally through a situation.
If the Empress is the maternal archetype of tarot, than the Emperor is the father. The ram links him to Ares (Roman Mars), but also signifies a strong wild animal, domesticated. As the Empress is associated with nature, the Emperor represents the worlds built by men that are “married to nature,” (Pollack 49). Behind him looms a painting of a mountain range, representing a solid foundation that is resistant to change. He symbolizes society and the laws that both bind and support it.
The natural world is chaotic and dangerous, and the structures built and enforced by society protect us from this chaos. At worst, the Emperor represents a constrictive hierarchy that many of us recognize as systemically racist, sexist and classist. Progressively, we can choose to read the Emperor as a civilization that can be democratically shaped for the better.
In readings, the Emperor often represents your father or a father figure. He may also represent any authority figure who holds power over you: your boss, a cop, a soldier. The Emperor could also represent a masculine romantic partner, especially if there is a power imbalance in the relationship. In situational readings, The Emperor urges you to stand up for yourself, assert leadership, create structure, and think rationally through a situation.
The Hierophant is a religious leader who is learned in a particular tradition and passes that knowledge on to others. In a wider sense, this could be any teacher or leader within a community who holds a reverence for tradition. He can also symbolize how we are affected by these types of structures, such as internalized values taught to us by traditional organizations and authority figures.
In readings, the Hierophant signifies a path that is laid out for you, a teacher-figure, an organized religion, or education within a structure. At best, this card reminds you that there is much to be learned from community and a well-tested path. At worst, it can signify a desire to follow a leader and surrender responsibility. The Hierophant also asks you where you place your faith and why. How it has affected you? Does that need to change?
The Hierophant is a leader within an organized religion. Traditionally the Hierophant is drawn as the Pope. Historically, the word ‘Hierophant’ (displayer of holy things) refers to the chief of the Eleusinian cult in ancient Greece, best known for the Eleusinian Mysteries, a celebration of Persephone’s return from the Underworld to her mother Demeter. I chose to draw my Hierophant card as one of these ancient Greek priests, backed by statues of Demeter and Persephone.
The Hierophant is a religious leader who is learned in a particular tradition and passes that knowledge on to others. In a wider sense, this could be any teacher or leader within a community who holds a reverence for tradition. He can also symbolize how we are affected by these types of structures, such as internalized values taught to us by traditional organizations and authority figures.
In readings, the Hierophant signifies a path that is laid out for you, a teacher-figure, an organized religion, or education within a structure. At best, this card reminds you that there is much to be learned from community and a well-tested path. At worst, it can signify a desire to follow a leader and surrender responsibility. The Hierophant also asks you where you place your faith and why. How it has affected you? Does that need to change?
In the Fool’s Journey, the Lover’s card asks what role love plays along our path. One figure holds their partner, while the other looks up to the sky. In love, we often give up the part of the ego that isolates us, even if it is just temporary. While many interpret the Lovers card to be purely about romantic and sexual love, there are many types of love in this world. The Lovers card can be about any relationship in which love is felt intensely and deeply.
In readings, the Lovers card represents the choices surrounding who you want to be and whom you want to be with. The Lovers card often symbolizes a choice between what you desire and what you consider morally right.
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