How the Tarot Works

The Tarot is where the past and the present meet, where pictures and stories come together—that is how it works its magic. We tell stories about our lives constantly—both to other people and ourselves. Just remembering what happened last night or talking about your day involve storytelling. What's more difficult is understanding what is going on below the surface of these stories. One of the most difficult things any of us can do is to get a perspective on our lives from outside of our co...

 Numerology in the Tarot

The Fool is the number 0, which, unlike the other numbers we will be looking at, is an absence rather than a quantity. One and two, for example, represent quantities—if you ask how many chairs are in a room, one or two could be an appropriate answer. If no chairs are in the room, however, you might say there are zero chairs in the room. But zero is not a quantity; it simply means that there are no chairs in the room at all. Likewise, with the Fool, zero represents the absence of characteris...