Library

Every card, every tradition

The reference library of Tarot Academy: the 78 cards, and ten spiritual traditions explained in depth, each with its own meanings, history and guides.

Ten spiritual domains

  • One deck, seventy-eight cards, six centuries of reinvention. The Tarot pairs 22 Major Arcana with 56 Minor Arcana across four suits, a full symbolic language for almost any situation a person meets. Browse the decks, then walk the structure card by card.

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  • Four thousand years of reading the sky, gathered in one library. From Babylonian omens and Hellenistic birth charts to Vedic Jyotisha, Chinese Four Pillars, Tibetan cycles and the modern Western branches, study each system's history, mathematics and cosmology, fully translated into 52 languages.

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  • Thousands of years of reading meaning into number, gathered in one library. From the alphabet ciphers of Greece, Israel and Arabia to the Katapayadi verse of Kerala, the Pythagorean and Chaldean systems of the West, Vedic Ank Jyotish and the grids of China and the Maya, study each system's history, mathematics and meaning, fully translated into 52 languages.

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  • Two thousand years of writing cut into wood, bone, metal and stone, gathered in one library. From the Elder Futhark and the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc to the pared-down Younger, staveless and Dalecarlian runes, the Irish Ogham and the Turkic Rovás, study each script's history, magic and meaning, fully translated into 52 languages.

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  • Three thousand years of reading change through sixty-four hexagrams, gathered in one library. From the Han schools of symbol-number and meaning-principle to Daoist inner alchemy, the martial art of Baguazhang, Korean constitutional medicine, Tokugawa statecraft, Vietnamese temples and the Western reading that inspired the binary code, study each tradition's history, methods and philosophy, fully translated into 52 languages.

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  • Six thousand years of aligning the home with the cosmos, gathered in one library. From the Chinese Form and Compass schools, Eight Mansions and Flying Stars to the Western Black Sect and Pyramid schools, Korean Pungsu-jiri, Japanese Onmyōdō, Indian Vastu Shastra and European ley lines, study each system's history, methods and philosophy, fully translated into 52 languages.

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  • Tantric texts describe a second anatomy laid over the physical one: wheels along the spine, channels that feed them, winds that move through them, sheaths that hold them. This library gives every part of that map its own page, with the tradition it came from and the practice that works on it.

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  • Five thousand years of carrying stone for meaning rather than money, gathered in one library. From the carnelian tied at an Egyptian throat to the sapphire prescribed by a Jyotish astrologer and the rose quartz on a modern bedside table, this is what people have believed about stones, who taught it, and what is known.

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  • Every culture has made small objects to be worn against harm or carried towards good fortune. This library reads them three ways: by the emblem cut into them, by the substance they are made of, and by what their owners wanted them to do. Twenty charms, ten materials and eight purposes, drawn from fifteen traditions and translated into 52 languages.

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  • Three thousand years of reading character, fate and health in the palm, gathered in one library. From the Vedic Samudrika Shastra and the Chinese Bagua hand to Islamic and Kabbalistic mysticism, the Romani tradition, the modern Western schools and the medical science of dermatoglyphics, study each tradition's history, methods and meaning, fully translated into 52 languages.

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