Tarot

The Hanged One is one of my favorite tarot cards. I think all tarot people have cards they look for that will sell them on a deck if they’re good, and the Hanged One is one of mine.

The Hermit is who you are when you’re alone, and everything you can learn while you’re in that state. They’re all the things you can only learn in that state.

I think the Hermit is a symbol of increasing importance in our time. We’re all a little more of… 

The Hierophant is the reassuring truth that wise people lived before you did and wrote down their best ideas, and the refinement of that process created the body of knowledge you live in without questioning.

The Hierophant is also the demand…

The Emperor is the divine masculine. He’s the old way, the way things maybe had to be in a more militaristic, lawless, and more violent world. Even if it isn’t really his prime era, he’s still powerful; he is power. He never goes away.

The Empress is the force of abundance—she’s everything you get to have when there’s more than enough resources to go around. That’s art, civilization, celebration, culture, pretty much everything we enjoy and call life. She’s the good stuff.

The High Priestess is a figure of conscience, of intuition, and of secrecy. She’s God as a woman, in the very-tarot language that describes woman as internal and man as external. Thinking of her as the God inside you helps explain the meanings associated with her card…

The Magician is the symbol of decisive, creative power. They’re swift action, impossible goals, creativity, and willpower.

The Magician is what the Fool turns into if they live long enough to make it to adulthood. They gain a crown—the infinity sign—indicating the endless path of knowledge. They gain a table…

The Fool is the 0-card of the tarot, and it’s a classic case of how a tarot card’s meaning is deeper than its name. The Fool’s a dummy, sure. They’re about to step off a cliff, and they’re super into that flower.

But they’re more than that. They’re the concept of innocent ignorance, which is where we all are before we learn things.