Personal and dictated readings are very different experiences. What you describe is the self help version of tarot. Maybe most common, but not exhaustive of the

Personal and dictated readings are very different experiences. What you describe is the self help version of tarot. Maybe most common, but not exhaustive of the medium. Practitioners know/Intuit that the typical major and minor arcana (cards that reveal mutable or immutable Fate) layouts are incredibly flushed out in archetypical terms. Using the symbols and suits, you can define not just A personal narrative, but ANY personal narrative. Both the major, and each of the four suits of the minor arcana, capture progressions of conscious thought that arguably encompass every conceivable platonic Form. This is a phenomenal achievement when examined in good faith. You might say it is impractical even if impressive. Still, I have been very surprised to see the principle that is supposed to make the tarot work (the hermetic idea of 'As above so below' or, ' the microcosm can only reflect the macrocosm') pop up in Karl Frissons FEP work. What esoterists describe as 'higher and lower powers', seems to be explicitly captured by ongoing work involving Markov blankets. I am not technically minded enought to get the math, but that's what I take from these interviews - https://youtu.be/KkR24ieh5Ow https://youtu.be/KkR24ieh5Ow