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MAJOR ARCANA · CARD 1
The Magician
"the self card, looking out for number one"
Her take
Look at his table: wand, cup, sword, and pentacle, every tool in the deck laid out and his. One hand points up, one points down, pulling an idea out of the air and landing it in real life.
The rest of her read
Where The Magician lands on the Fool's Journey, what its number does to a spread, how it reads next to another Major versus next to a court card, and what changes when it shows up upside down. Every one of the 78 has this, written once, in her voice.
The teaching
When it lands reversed
This is the library entry, the card on its own. In a reading she reads The Magician against the cards around it, its position, and your question, and that's where the actual story turns up. No card means one thing every time.