This exploration of the major arcana includes a new method of laying the cards out as well as hints for using the tarot to gain deeper levels of awareness. Cherry Gilchrist offers ways to approach each card, absorb it and understand its essence. Readers are encouraged to relate this essence to personal experience as the most enduring and rewarding way to prepare for reading the cards. By aligning ourselves with the cards and grasping their archetypal qualities, we can then begin to intuit appropriate ways of interpreting them in a reading. It is better to lodge The Magician within our own psyche, for instance, than to learn by rote a dozen correspondences associated with him. Key points: * Focuses on the 22 trumps or the major arcana of the Marseilles tarot * Offers advice on how to study each card and find its unique significance * Provides instructions for laying out and reading the cards * Shapes the divinatory perspective through the "The Fool's Mirror" approach * Explores the tarot in terms of history, divination, symbolism and esoteric traditions