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cards.
Laythem
out.
Thrn
them
o
v
er
.
Find
a
place
(0begin
.
Let's s
ec .
..
The year
was
1
9
85
,
and
I think
we
all
felt
a
\~dguesen
s
e of anticlima.x of (he kind w
e
shall probably
not
see again
until
2
002
,
and
I
didn
't
know vel)' mu
c
h
about the
Tarot.
I was in Birminghanl
, England
, which
i
s an
odd
place for
an}thin
g
to
begin;
after all
, Birnlingham i
s
one
of m
y
least
favorite cities
in the
world.
I like the
people
well
e
noug
h
: but it was in Birnlingham,
several years
b
ef
ore this,
that
the madman tried
tostmngle me;
it
was on arrivi
ng
in Birmingham
on
this 1985 trip that I'd st
e
pped
over the
knifed body
at
the top
of the escalator,
coming
mit of N
ew S
treet
Station
.
It's a rare trill to
Birnlingham that
docsn
·t have
a small di
sast
er connecled with it.
Itwas
September
, and
(
was attending the Briti
sh t
'antasy Convention
, and I had
with
m
e a small hardback
copy
of
Sal
v
ador Doli's Tarot
.
I
was going to intervi
ew
the
author of the t
ext that
accompanied the
Tarot.
The author
was a lady
named
Rachel PoUa
ck
:
tall
, fey
, hu
sk
y
and elegant.
Pick out th
e card for
Rach
e
l
:
the Pri
estess, perhaps,
or the Empress
.
It
was
at that
s
ame convention
that
I m
et Alan Moore.
He
s
howed me
Xerox
es
of the first four i
ssu
es
of
a
comi
c
he
was doing with
Dave
Gibbons,
called WATCHM
EN,
and
I
was stunned
.
(go
t Alan
to
show
me
what a
comic script looked like
,
an action
that
was
,
in retrosp
ect
,
going to have
many
ramifi
c
ation
s
for my
future.
Lay down
a
card
for
Alan.
S
till
somewhere
in the
Major Arcana:
the Hermit
,
or the
Magician
.
I went
, with
Rachel
,
fr
om Birmingham
10Milford-on-
S
ea
,
a
little
Engli
sh s
easide
town
with
no
distinguishing marks
or
features
, for a week
-
long w
riters
' worksh
op. And it
\
V'dS there
that I had m
y
first Tarot reading
(not
b
y
Rach
el, but a year
later
, from author Mary Gentle)
, and
it
w
as
there
that
(
learned mos
t
of what
(
know
that
made me
any
kind
of halfway
decent writer
,
and
il
was there
that I got
to be good friends with
Rachel
.
We had a common fondn
ess for reall
y
weird arcana
. S
he
was th
e o
nly
other person
I'd
met who
knew
the
detail
s of
w
hat happen
s when th
e M
essiah
comes back
(all
the
Jewish men have a party in
a
hu
g
e
tent
and C'dt Behemoth and Leviathan) and she kne
w detail
s
I'd
n
ever
heard of
(aUthe
Jewish
women are out the
back doin
g
the w
ashing
up and having baby
boy
s)
.
S
h
e
told
me the
coolest necrophilia
joke
I'd
e
xcr heard.
She
read c
omics,
and we talked about
the relation
s
hip
between
c
omic
s and
the Tarot.
Sh
e
was
aJ
s
o, in
compan
y
with critic
John
Clute and author Gwyneth
Jones
,
the pers
on from whom
(learned the
mo
s
t,
about
rC'ddin
g
and about writing
,
over the course
of
that
week.
Milford ended
.
Rachel
returned
to
Am
s
terdanl.
I
went home
,
to
m
y
wif
e
and
m
y
to
ddler and m
y
baby.
And 1985 mo
v
ed
from
environment
into
memory
.
1986
was a year of odd coincidences
and
stntnge meetings.
In the
summer of 1986
I met
an arti
st
named Dave M
cKean
.
(He was s
till at art
sc
hool
,
but
he
wa
s,
no
doubt about
it,an arti
st.)
Dave is
,
and wa.
<;,
dark
-
haired
,
bearded,
pon
y-
tail
e
d,
\vith
s
harp eycs
and a
sharp sen
se of hum
o
r
.
He
'
s
a gentle person
,
ve
ry
practi
cal
,
ve
ry funn
y
,
who
doe
s
no
t
s
uffer fool
s,
gladl
y or nthcrwi
se.
A
card for Dave?
That
's
a hard
on
e
.
Dave i
s,
with
out
any
doubt
,
The
Arti
s
t, if
e
rer there
was
one, in
archetype and r
e
ality
.
Perhaps Th
e
World .
..
In 1
986
Ra
che
l
returned
f
rom
Amsterdam
f
o
r
th
e
next
Milf
or
d
writers
' wo
rk
s
h
o
p
,
and I
brought
a
stol)
'
I
was working on which would wind up being called Violent C,L
'i
e
S
when
Dav
e
dr
ew
it.More Tarot
conversations;
a Bill
SienkiC'\\icl Supennan
pinup in
,
if memo!)
'
se
r
v
e
s,
ACTION COMlCi
#
400
,
prompted
a
co
n
ve
rsati
o
n ab
ou
t
doing
a Tarot
of DC
Co
mi
q; c
harJ
cters
.
Ra
c
hel
s
poke
of
doing
a
Tarot
of
her
own
,
w
ith
ani
s
ts
she
admired
-
Hill
S
ienki
ew
i
C"l
,
f
o
r
exam
ple
,
o
r Da
ve
M
c
Kean
.
A
f
ew
y
C'
drs later
s
h
c
s
p
o
k
e
10 Da
vc
,
bU
I nothin
g cver
came of
it
-
h
er
lision wa
'i
too p
erso
nal
,
and
s
he
eventually wound
up rC'.ui
zi
n
g
the only p
e
rson who
co
uld
drJw it was her.
(It
's
c
all
e
d The
Shining
Woman Tarot.)
n
i
p the
cards
.
F
eel
them
in
y
our h
an
d
s.
Sa
ndman
turns
u
p
in
1
988
.
Da
ve
painL
'i
-
or
builds
-
or
photographs -
th
e cO\
'
ers
.
Mike Drin
genbcrg
drC'\v
th
e
first
Sandman
Tarot
ca
rd
,
one of
th
e
illUSlrati
on
s
for
th
e
text piece
in
SAN
DMAl
'l #8
,
Ra
c
hel
came
to
England
from Amsterdam
w
hilc I
\Va'i working on
the BOOKS Of MAGI
C
limited
series
,
and
s
he
h
e
lped
me with
Madam
e
Xanadu
's
four
-
ca
rd r
e
adin
g
in Book 1\m. (We
we
nt
into a
sm
all
Tarot
&
Suchlike Esoterica
s
h
o
p
in
Camden
,
to pick
out
a card
set fo
r
me
,
and
I found
m~'Selff
c
eli
ng
like I'd
ju
st go
ne into
a
record
s
ho
p
with
someo
n
e w
ho
, to
m
y s
urprise
,
turned
out 10
b
e o
ne
of
the Beatl
es
,
as
R
ac
he
l
modestly
admitt
e
d
her
id
e
ntit
y 10
th
e
lady b
ehin
d th
e co
unt
e
r
,
and
s
i
gnl'tl a
uto
g
raph
s.)
I
d
es
i
g
ned four
Tarot
ca
rd
s
for
BOOKS
OfMAG
I
C,
w
hi
c
h
Sco
tt lIamplon paint
e
d b
e
autifull
y
in th
e
comic
,
and
I
discovered
t
h
e
j
oy
of de
s
igning Tarot card
s,
a
bu
g
whic
h bite
s
and
n
l.,,
·
cr
quite
let
s
go
.
Every
now
and then
,
p
eop
l
e wo
u
l
d
se
nd
me
le
tt
ers,
physically
o
r
e
l
ec
troni
c
all
y
,
s
u
gge
s
tin
g
that
wc
do a
Sa
ndman Tarot
-
so
m
e
p
eople
would
eve
n li
s
t the
i
r
s
u
ggcstio
n
s
for char.lcter
s
.
rd
pass
t
h
eir
s
u
gges
tion
s
on, butnotiting came of it.
Moments of
convergence and
co
nfluen
ce
.
Card
s
s
t
irred
,
a
nd
brought together
.
E\"cnL
'i
and action
s
and
people
.
.
.
Ra
c
hel
wins
the
Arthur
C
.
Clarke Award
fo
r
Best
S
F
Nove
l
of
t
h
e
Year
(fo
r h
er
r
e
markable
book
Unquenchable Fire) ,
mov
es
from
Amsterdam
t
o
New York
S
ial
e,
and
,
throu
gh a se
rie
s
of
o
dd
coincidences of
her
OW11,b
eco
m
es
the
wri
ter for DC'
s
DOOM PATROL
,
a
title in Ih
e
na
sce
nt Vertigo lin
e,
s
ucceeding
the irr
e
pla
cC'J
ble
Grant
M
o
rri
s
o
n
.
Pe
o
p
l
e a
l D
C
know that
R
ac
h
el is
an
a
war
d-
w
innin
g
writer of
m
y
thic
s
c
i
e
nc
e
fi
c
li
o
n
.
Nobody
know
s
th
a
t
s
h
e i
s
a
g
od
d
e
ss
o
f
Tarol.
S
haron
Kattuah
,
in
charge o
f
gcne
r.uin
g
D
C's
own
m
e
rchandi
sing progrJ
m
, is
a
Tar
ot
rC'Jd
er o
f
o
ld
-a
dark
-eye
d lad
y
who
,
dre
sse
d appropriately
,
would
not lo
ok o
ut
of place
in a Roman
y ca
ravan
.
We
m
e
t
for
the first tim
e
in Atlanla
i
n 19
93
allh
e
Diamond Di
stnb
utors
con
f
e
renc
e
,
where
w
e sa
lon hi
g
h
s
lool
s
and
drank
s
qu
a
'i
hed
fru
it
drink
s
.
We talked
a
bout S
luff
We
'
d
I.o
\'e
To
Sec
-
a
s
tatue h
a'ied o
n
P.
C
rJ.i
g
Ru
ssell
'
s
dra
wing
of
Dream
i
n
SANDMA
j
\i
#50,a
D
C'J
lh
Tell1porJ.~'Tatt
oo
,
Ih
c
s
il\
'
e
r
ankh
(
wit
h
a long
thin D
ea
th m
i
ni
co
mic
i
n
the
box)
,
and
th
e
n
1
m
e
ntionl'tl
t
h
e
idea
of
d
o
ing
a Venigo
Taro
t...
I did nol know that
S
har
o
n was
a
Tarot
person, although
I
found
out
\
'
ery
quickl
y
.
Jce
nain
l
y
didn
'
t
expec
t her to
go
into
hi
g
h
,
dllrk
places
,
and
p
ers
uade
some \
'
C
!)
'
s
kl'plical people in
s
uits
that a V
e
ni
go
Tarot
really would
be
a
cool
,
prJ
c
ticaJ
idea
,
and
r
C'
.tll
y
,
peoplc honestly would
bu
y it. nut s
he did
.
(S
h
e
al
so
mad
e
al
l
th
e
Atlanta
Sugges
ti
o
n
s
excep
llh
e
ankh illio r
C'Jli
t
y,
CH'nIh
e
De-Jlh
Tel1lpora~'Tattoo
s
.
)
I m
e
nti
oned}o her t
hat Ra
c
h
e
l
wa
<;
an
h
o
n
es
t
-
t
o-good
n
cs'<;
Tarot
A
uth
ority
,
an
d sc
llta p
il
e o
f
b
ooks on
th
e
Tarot t
o
Karen
Berger
,
Ve
rti
go
Empre
ss
(w
h
ic
h
gives
u
s Ka
r
en's c
ard)
;
a
nd in
th
e
au
t
umn
of
1
993
,
th
e
four of
u
s
,
Karen
,
Sha
r
o
n
,
R
a
c
h
el and
I.found
o
u
rsc
l
Vl'S
i
n
a hOlel
s
u
ite
i
n
New
Y
o
rk
,
s
urr
ounde
d
by a
st
ran
ge co
ll
ection
o
f
Tar
o
l
Cards -
th
e
S
hakes
pearian Tarol
,
Th
e
M~lhicTarot
,
T
he Amu
s
in
g
Cal<;
Tar
o
l
,
Th
e No
u
ve
lle
Cu
i
S
in
e
Tarot
an
d
such
l
i
k
e
,
say
i
n
g
th
i
n
g
s
li
ke
"Wcll
,
ifwc're goi
n
g
1
0
do
it
, I
hop
e
it
'
ll
be
be
n
er
th
an
Ihi
s
one
.
I lik
e
their
pa
ckagi
n
g jo
b
,
Ih
o
u
g
h
,"
Th
e
r
oo
m
wa"
o
n th
e 24
th fl
oo
r
,
and
1 was
astonis
h
ed
t
o find that the
wi
ndo
ws ope
n
e
d
al
l
th
e way,
so
m
e
th
ing
which
seemed
d
ee
pl)
'
unlikely
in
suicidal
hi
gh-
ri
sc
New York.
(1\\'0weeks
,
later
I r
ead in
th
e
n
ews
paper
,
wit
h
a g
rim
IO
ld
,
yo
ll
-so sa
ti
sfacti
o
n
,
t
hat
someo
n
e had
j
u
st
thr
O\\l1
t
hcm
s
eln
'S
ou
t
of
that
very selfsame
\\
indow.)
We
a
ll
imme
d
ia
t
el
y
ag
r
ee
d
t
h
at
J
o
hn
Constantine
was
the
F
oo
l
.
Afte
r
thaI our opinions were
spi
rite
d
and
varied
...
Th
e
a
c
tual proc
ess
,
of d
eciding
w
hi
c
h
o
f th
e
Major Arca
na
s
h
ould
be
which
charac
t
er
,
was one
itwou
ld
be
impo
ss
i
ble
to
desc
ribe
wit
h
out
dest
roying
t
he
sense of magic and m
ystery
w
hi
c
h
is esse
nt
ial
10 all
t
ru
e
T
a
r
ot decks
.
Iti
s
possible thaI
Wing-foo
l
ed
H
enn
es
,
in
h
i
s
guise as Thol
h
of t
h
e E
gyptian
s,
r
C\
'
C'J.led
h
i
m
se
lf
1
0 u
s
,
and
su
ggested
s
trong
l
y
t
hat
,
for exam
pl
e
,
B
l
ack
Orchid
s
h
ou
ld
be
S
treng
th
.
It
is
eq
ual
ly
poss
i
b
l
e
that
so
m
e cards w
ere o
nl
y
agreed
upon
after o
n
e or
m
o
r
e o
f
t
h
e
f
o
ur
o
f u
s thre'J
t
ent'<i
to
t
hro
w
him
·,
h
e
r
o
,
t
hemse
l
ves
-,
out of
th
e
on
l
y
functional
24t
h
-
fl
oor wi
nd
ow
in
New Y
o
rk.
Lety
ou
r
imagi
n
atio
n
b
e yo
ur
gUidc
he
r
e.
Ra
c
h
e
l took
Ollr notes and
co
n
clUS
i
o
n
s,
a
nd
sent them, toge
th
c
r
w
ith h
ac
k
g
r
o
und
o
f h
e
r
ow
n
,
ac
r
oss
th
c w
id
e
Atlantic Sea
t
o Oavc
.
D
ave
M
c
Kean b
egan work on
t
he
cards.
H
e
was
fascinatl'<i
by
th
e
id
ea of c
r
ea
tin
g
Tarot
im
ag
es
usin
g
th
e co
m
p
uter -
t
h
e
ble
nd
ing
of
s
tr
eam
s
and
trad
i
tions
,
Ihe m
i
xtu
r
e of o
ld
and ncw
.
A
n
d
,
as
prin
tout<;
o
f
the ca
rd
s began
t
o
appC'
"Jf
,
t
h
e res
t
of
liSb
ecame
incr
ea
<;
i
n
gly exci
ted
.
What
wc
Wl'fCgettin
g wa.;;
indeed a
Ve
rt
igo
Tarot
,
bu
t
,
mor
e i
mportant
,
it
\\~dSa co
n
temporary Tarot.
A Tarol
p
e
rf
ectly appropriate
f
or t
h
e
co
ld
an
d
lonely
e
nd
o
f
th
e
t
we
nti
eth
century.
Th
ey were
as strange
,
as
beautiful
,
a
s
detail
e
d
a
nd
as
access
ible
a
s we
h
ad
hope
d
.
Ra
c
h
el's
text
i
s entertainin
g
,
informative
,
and
educa
ti
on
al
-
a
p
e
rf
ect
acc
o
m
pan
i
men
t
to tht
'
ca
rd
s
th
e
m
sel
ves.
And
i
l wo
u
ld
ne
vc
r ha
vc
happ
ened
,
a
t l
ea
'll
,
n
o
t in Ihi
s
f
o
rm
,
were
itnot f
o
r
a
succ
e
ss
ion
of o
dd
coincide
n
ces
and
confl
u
en
ces
,
o
f
com
'
e
r
ge
n
ces a
n
d c
h
arac
t
ers
.
O
f
whom
,
I
suppo
s
e
,
in
r
etro
s
p
(.'C
t
,
I
am al
so o
n
e.
A
s
,
n
ow
,
arc YO
II
.
.
.
The Tarot i
s
an andent tea
c
hin
g
di
sg
uised
as
a
g
am
e
.
Th
e
Tarot
is
a
f
ortune-
t
e
Uing devi
ce
based o
n
uni
versa1 symbols.
The Tar
o
t
is
an
a
rt
f
o
nn
u
s
ed
f
or
f
o
rtun
e
t
e
llin
g.
Th
e
Tar
o
t
i
s
a
g
am
e
di
sg
u
i
s
ed
as
anci
e
nt
t~lchings.
.
.
Peopl
e
s
tudying
th
e
Tarot l
ove
to d
ebate
i
ts
origin
.
Ilardline rJlionali
s
l
<;
in
s
i
st
that
the Tarot
i
s
nothin
g
mor
e
t
han
a
card
gam
e,
and
o
nl
y
a
f
oo
l
(
th
e
first
c
ard in
th
e
d
eck
i
s c
alled
the Fool)
woul
d
fall for
the idea
that it
co
m
es
f
rom
s
ome
sec
r
e
t
s
ourc
e.
M
os
t peopl
e
,
h
o
w
eve
r
,
pr
e
f
e
r
10th
i
nk
o
f
sec
r
ets
.
S
in
ce
th
e
l
ate
e
ighteenth
cenlUry
,
man
y s
weepin
g
th
eo
ri
es
h
ave
ari
se
n
regarding
th
e
Tarot'
s
beginnings
(
how
fittin
g
f
or a
Tarot
b
a<;cd on
co
m
ics, a
med
i
um
w
h
e
re
every c
h
amcle
r
has a
··s
ecret origin")
.
Peopl
e
h
ave
claimed
th
e
Tar
ot o
ri
ginated
in
an
cie
nt
Egypt
,
Atl
a
nti
s,
o
r
w
ith
a
sec
r
e
t
co
nv
oc
ation
o
f
s
piritual
mast
ers
in
th
e
Moro
cc
an city of Fe
z
in
th
e
ye
ar
1
2
00.
S
ome
Imv
e s
uggesled
tha
t
th
e
Tarot
comes o
ul
of
matriar
c
hal
w
it
c
h
c
raft
,
Tantric
Goddess wo
r
s
hip
,
Roman
y
(Gyp~y)lore,
j
ew
i
s
h
m
ys
ti
c
i
s
m
,
Chaldean astrol
ogy,
as
w
e
ll
as
man
y
ol
h
e
r
so
urc
es.
U
nfortunat
ely
f
or
th
ese
th
eo
ri
es
and
their
s
upport
ers
,
very li
ttl
e
evi
d
e
n
ce exists to s
upp
o
rt
th
e
m
.
Wh
a
t
we
know
abo
ut
the Tar
o
t i
s
that
i
t
first
a
ppear
e
d in
Ital
y
around
1
450 (p
la
yi
n
g card
s
o
f an
y
kind
are
m
e
ntioned in Europ
e
around fifty or
so
ye
ars
C'd.rlie
r
).
The
C'Jri
i
es
t
known
Tar
o
t
deck
s
arc
handpaint
ed
ca
r
ds
presented
as a weddi
n
g
pr
ese
nt b
e
tween th
e
Sfo
r
z
a and Vi
sco
nti familie
s
(the
Vi
sc
onti
s
ruled Milan
).
Whether
o
r nOl it
was
anythin
g
e
l
se,
the
earl
y
TarOl
ce
rtainl
y
was a game,
th
e
anc
es
t
or
of b
rid
ge
and
whi
s
t.
The
Italian
s cal
l
ed
the
game tarocchi
;
when Ih
e
French adopt
ed
it th
ey
named
i
t
les
larols
.
Peopl
e s
till
pla
y
it
in
so
uth
e
rn
E
urop
e
and
Non
h
Afri
c
a
.
And
yet... Certai
n imag
es
in th
e
Tarot
se
em
to
cry
oul
f
o
r
a symbolic,
eve
n
an
eso
t
e
ri
c
,
int
e
rpretation
.
DC'dlh
,
the D
evi
l
,
jud
g
m
ent-these
all
s
ugg
es
t
r
e
li
g
i
o
n
.
Th
e
Ma
gic
i
an
im
p
li
es occ
ult
wisdo
m
and
pmcti
ces.
In
ano
th
e
r
wa
y,
so
d
oes
th
e
H
ermit. And w
hat
of
the imag
e o
f
a
F
e
male
Po
pe
(
pred
ecesso
r
of
th
e
mod
e
m
card
,
th
e
nigh
Pri
es
t
ess)?
Do
es
that
ri
ng of
her
esy?
In
th
e
1
3
th
ce
ntury
a sec
t
called
th
e Guglielm
it
cs
predi
c
ted
that
C
hri
s
t
wou
ld
return
in th
e y
ear
1
300
and u
s
h
e
r
in a
go
ld
en a
ge,
led
b
y
wo
m
en
p
o
p
es.
A
s
the n
ew cen
tury
approac
h
e
d
,
th
ey e
l
ec
t
e
d a
wo
man
nam
e
d Maria
V
i
sco
nti
as
th
e
first
wo
man
pope
.
The
c
hur
c
h
put down
th
e
here
sy
and
burn
ed
Mar
ia
at the
s
tak
e
.
Some
1
50
years
l
a
t
e
r
,
th
e
fir
s
t
known
Tarot d
ec
k appeared
a
t
a wedding
of
that
same V
i
sco
nti
fam
il
y.
A
nd
t
h
e
Han
ged
Man
,
th
a
t
m
yst
eri
o
u
s
ima
ge
o
f
a
man
dangling b
y
one
foot
-
h
e
m
ay
h
ave o
ri
gi
n
ated
i
n t
h
e
Italian p
ractice of
h
a
n
ging
trai
to
r
s
u
p
s
id
e
down
,
but
i
f
s
o
,
why
do
es
h
i
s
fa
ce
a
p
pea
r
so
f'dd
ia
nt
?
Th
e evidence
f
or
m
ys
t
erio
u
s so
ur
ces
f
o
r th
e
Tarot
li
es
primaril
y
in
th
e
symbo
li
s
m. For
example
,
Th
e
Hindu
go
d
Vi
s
hnu i
s
o
ften
s
ho
w
n
w
ith four
arm
s,
h
o
ldin
g
a di
s
k
,
:1l
o
tu
s,
a
club
,
and
a co
n
c
h
. At
least tw
o
of
the
se,
the
di
s
k and th
e
clu
b
,
c
orr
es
pond to tw
o
of
th
e
four
s
ui
ts
in
th
e
ear
l
y
Tar
o
t
d
ec
k.
So
m
e
thin
g
mor
e
dir
ec
tl
y
Europeam.rnany
myth
s
and al
l
egories exi
s
t around
th
e
im
age
of
th
e
H
oly
Gra
il
,
Ch
ri
s
t'
s
c
up
from th
e
Las
t
Su
pper
.
Often
th
e
s
t
o
rie
s
al
s
o
t
ell
o
f a
s
word
,
a
lan
ce
,
a
n
d
a
di
s
k.
The
se
four
objects
are
exac
tl
y
tho
se
o
f the four
s
uit
s
(
the
lan
ce
and th
e
cl
ub
are varia
t
ions
of
Ihe
s
ame
s
uit
,
now
c
all
e
d Wand
s).
Did
th
e
Tar
ot
de
s
i
gners
borrow
the
m fr
o
lllth
e
Grail
s
t
orie
s,
or
did
both d
e
riv
e
fr
o
m
sec
r
e
t
sy
mb
o
li
s
m
that h
as
been
1
0S
II
O
u
s?
Th
e
m
os
t
co
mpelling
connection
s
f
o
r
th
e
Tarot li
e
w
ith
the comp
l
ex
sys
t
e
m
of
j
ewis
h m
ystic
i
s
m
known
as
Kabbalah
.
Along wilh th
e
four
s
ui
ts
,
th
e
Tarot contains
tw
e
n
ty-
two
trump
ca
rd
s.
Kab
balah
b
ases
mu
c
h
of
its i
deas
o
n th
e
sec
r
e
t
mC'dnin
g of
th
e
t
we
n
ty·
two
l
eite
r
s
of
th
e
n
ebrew
alphab
e
t.
Tho
se
fou
r
s
u
its
al
so
find
a
reflection i
n
Kabbalah
.
K:lbbaJah d
esc
rib
es
fou
r
·
·
wo
rlds
,'
·
o
r
s
ta
ges
,
b
y
w
hi
c
h
God
c
r
e-d
ted
the
cos
m
os
.
Ea
c
h
Tarot
s
uit
c
ontain
s
len
numb
e
red
ca
rd
s
,
Ace
throu
g
h
T
e
n.
In
eac
h
o
f th
e
four Kabbali
s
t
ic
w
o
rlds
we
find a Tr
ee
o
f
Jjf
e
with
t
e
n
e
neq
,'Y ce
nters known
as
sepbirolh
.
The
su
i"
a
l
so co
ntain
four
Co
un
Ca
rd
s:
Pa
ge
,
Kni
g
ht
,
Qu
ee
n
,
a
nd
Kin
g.
Kabbalah
(
and
judai
s
m in
ge
n
e
ld.
l)
pla
ces
a
g
r
ea
t d
eal o
f
e
mpha
s
i
s
on God
's
f
o
u
r-leite
r n
ame
,
known
in
E
n
g
li
s
h
as
th
e
•
,
.
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