Tell me about Tarot

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I recently finished Persona 5 Royal which has tarot as one of its defining aesthetics/gameplay mechanics and someone mentioned in the P5R thread that characters in the Moon arcana are always enormous assholes and this might be because Moon is one of only two major arcana that's purely negative in the upright position.

This made me realize that I really don't know anything about tarot despite the fact that I have an old set and that it seems to be coming back in a big way along with astrology.

What's with the major arcana?

How do you tell fortunes?

How do you tell if its upright or reversed?-

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BIG FLUFFY DOG: Feb 16, 2011; On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Nessus posted:

How do you mean "what's with the major arcana?"

You tell fortunes broadly speaking by holding a quiery in your mind, shuffling the cards until they feel "done," and then dealing them up in a particular pattern. There's a bunch of different ones. I'm fond of just slapping down two, one crossing the other, and reading it as "this, interfacing with that."

Usually it's pretty obvious if it's upright or reversed from the art.

What are the meanings of each and are they just normal cards like the suits or do they have a special meaning because they're "major"

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