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Major Arcana: the great doors of the path

Major Arcana show not a small everyday detail but a large inner law: beginning, choice, crisis, awakening, completion.

How to read a Major Arcana

First ask: is this an outer event, inner stage, or lesson that changes the way of acting? Then look at the card position.

When many Majors appear

Many Major Arcana mean the question concerns not only action, but maturity, values, crossroads, or a long cycle.

Practice questions

  • Which large lesson repeats?
  • Where am I trying to solve an inner stage with an outer action?

Common mistakes

  • Fearing every difficult card
  • Reading a Major as a tiny everyday detail

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