The Lesser Spheres

The Tarot

Seventy-eight cards: twenty-two Major Arcana, the trumps that the Golden Dawn laid on the twenty-two paths of the Tree of Life, and fifty-six Minor Arcana in four suits, one for each element.

Names follow the Rider-Waite-Smith deck most readers learn first; each card also carries its Golden Dawn title and Thoth name. In the Golden Dawn system, every number card from Two to Ten rules ten degrees of the zodiac with its own planet, and every court card rules from the twentieth degree of one sign to the twentieth of the next.