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The foundations that deepen your readings, each linked to the card pages and reading tools.
History of tarot: from the Visconti cards to Rider–Waite–Smith
The history of tarot from a 15th-century Italian card game to French fortune-telling, the Golden Dawn and the 1909 Rider–Waite–Smith deck, model of the Universal Waite.
How to read tarot: questions, shuffling and reversed cards
How to read tarot yourself from the start: asking good questions, choosing a spread, reading reversed cards and linking several cards into one story.
The four elements in tarot and elemental dignities
Fire, Water, Air and Earth in tarot: the suits and Major Arcana of each element, and the Golden Dawn rules of elemental dignities for reading neighbouring cards.
Tarot and astrology: signs, planets, decans and timing
How all 78 tarot cards connect to Western astrology: Majors with signs and planets, the 36 Minor cards with decans, court cards with zodiac spans, and timing from the cards.
Tarot and the Tree of Life: the 10 sephiroth and 22 paths
The Tree of Life of Western Kabbalah: the 10 sephiroth and the Minor cards, the 22 paths and the Major Arcana, the four worlds and suits, and the three pillars.
Uranian astrology
The Hamburg School, eight hypothetical points, the 90° dial, planetary pictures and solar arcs, with a chart calculator.