“The 22 major arcana are symbols of a person's path in life. And a symbol is — in contrast to the signs, icons, codes, and ciphers — nothing artificial or invented. A symbol doesn't attempt to conceal anything apparent. To the contrary, it illustrates something that is greater and extends deeper than words can express or that our minds can comprehend. If the circle is the symbol for the original undivided whole, paradise, the divine hemisphere, the unity of all, the unconscious and superconsciousness, the self, completion, eternity, and much more, then these meanings have never been invented. Instead, inherent knowledge has been perceived in the symbol of the circle — and this applies to all cultures of humanity.”

~ Hajo Banzhaf, Tarot and the Journey of the Hero

Fellow traveler,

Throughout April, I walked the twenty-two Major Arcana one card at a time, one day at a time, here in this newsletter. Today, for April 22nd — for the twenty-two paths — the full journey is bound together as a single {digitized} artifact.

THE TAROT JOURNEY [eBook📓] is a reference codex of all 22 Major Arcana: a PDF designed to live beside your deck, part grimoire, part field guide. Each card gets a full page — the Rider-Waite-Smith illustration framed and captioned, upright and reversed keywords, the five-part Banzhaf keyword table, my own original interpretation passage, A.E. Waite's own words from the Pictorial Key, and a color-coded Kabbalistic Tree of Life diagram with the card's path lit in red.

30 pages. Cream stock, oxblood and gold accents. Designed to be opened often and reread.

→ THE TAROT JOURNEY on Gumroad

For readers who want to deepen their practice. For writers using the archetypes as story scaffolding. For anyone drawn to the cards.

A symbol is inherent knowledge perceived. These twenty-two are a map of the human path. I hope the codex finds its way to your heart.

Godspeed,
Dylan 🌹

The Tarot Journey