Lore
Astrology is such a massive undertaking that I decided to start my grimoire with Tarot. It’s something I’ve consulted daily for the entirety of my spiritual journey.
I’ve gone incredibly in depth with Astrology, it’s the root of my spiritual journey. Though the information on it is infinite in the same way numbers are. It’s going to take a life time to compile everything I’ve learned. Tarot, on the other hand— is limited to 78 cards. If you read reversals, you can see it as 156 total units of information to learn. Compared to the billions of stars in the sky, it’s easier to swallow.
How does astrology even tie into this? It’s the reason I picked up my first deck. Once I unlocked the ‘three years’ omen of my life, the only thing I could translate that to was one thing: Mars. Nothing earthly could reconcile such a inconsistent amount of time: The cycle of earth is one year, besides things like leap and election years occurring every 4 years.
When I picked up my first Astrology book titled “The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need” by Joanna Martine Woolfolk, hidden in the beginning of the book was this gem of knowledge (paraphrasing, as I lost the book when I moved): “Astrology in tandem with tarot provide almost transparent foresight into the future”
Being that I had zero foresight into the future, I immediately went back to the book store and grabbed a tarot deck.
Is Tarot Legit?
Tarot, also known as Cartomancy, is the act of manifesting fortunes through the symbolism and definitions of each card. If you are reading by the traditional Celtic cross, with the standard 78 cards— the probability of getting the same reading twice is 1 in 6.08 quintillion. If you’re using a 3 card spread that 1 in 456,456– with reversals 1 in 3,651,648.
Based on that math can you guess the odds of getting the same reading twice, using a 10 card spread, with reversals? It’s 1 in 4.55 Quadrillion (4,550,000,000,000,000).
There are 657,450 hours in 75 years. Even if you read tarot every day since birth until your carpal tunnel took you out—- there’s no way you’d be able to get every single card combination out there in a 10 card spread. Even a 3 card spread with reversals eclipses that number.
Which are some staggering odds, and pretty hard dispute if you keep pulling out the same cards again and again. Which is frequent among seasoned tarot readers.
As for its legitimacy— that’s up to you and your beliefs. Try it out if you’re curious, but commit to it if you do. Each new form of divination requires dedication to sharpen your intuition to it, much like learning a new skill.
How to use this guide
Originally I wrote this all as a book. In order to suit SEO requirements and meld with the new standards of publishing (with the headings and stuff), I had to re-write quite a bit of it.
Yes, this is all written by me.
My Kryptonite has always been editing, which is why the book never made it to the finish line into publishing. I will say: The only thing AI had to do with everything presented is proofreading. After writing novels out of these pages, the last thing my brain could do was proofread everything. It’s hard enough writing nearly a million words and over a billion characters without having re-read it all.
(and I have binocular vision, re-reading it all actually really hurts my head)
That being said you can either read everything like the book it was meant to be, from start to finish or you can simply pick apart each meaning as you need it. It’s really up to you.