Seventy-eight cards: twenty-two major arcana and four suits of minor arcana.
The Tarot is a deck of seventy-eight images — twenty-two Major Arcana of archetypes (the Fool, Death, the Tower) and fifty-six Minor cards of daily life — laid into spreads where each position carries a meaning. Drawn by chance and read in combination, the cards narrate a situation back to the querent.
Tarot unlocks archetypes as a combinatorial storytelling engine: a fixed set of symbols that, through juxtaposition and position, generates endless specific narratives. Whether one calls it divination or projection, it works as a mirror — a structured prompt that lets a person externalise and reorganise what they already half-know.