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Major Arcana

The twenty-two archetype cards of a tarot deck, from the Fool (0) to the World (21).

The Major Arcana are the deck's headliners: Fool, Magician, High Priestess, and onward to Judgement and the World. When majors dominate a reading, the day is about big weather — identity, direction, endings — not errands.

They are numbered 0 through 21, and the order itself tells a story called the Fool's Journey: a whole life, compressed into twenty-two scenes.

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