Why Strength Is Card 8 in Your Deck and 11 in Mine
Two tarot traditions number the same cards differently, and most books never mention the other one exists. Here is what happened and why it changes the reading.
The Library
Tarot has several traditions and they disagree with each other more than most writing admits. These are the essays working through where the disagreements are and which one you are standing in.
How the 36 Decans Map Onto the Minor Arcana
Thirty-six ten-degree slices of the zodiac, thirty-six numbered pips, and a one-to-one mapping that turns the Minor Arcana from a memory problem into a structure.