Once upon a time, for a long time in fact, I was a Baptist. One day the minister of the church I attended, whom I had known in my youth of church camp and Bible school, used the pulpit to tell his congregation why it was that he was running for the school board. I walked out in the middle of his sermon. He called me later at home to ask if I was sick. I explained that I had left because he had offended me. Brother Charlie had been explaining that he needed to be on the school board to stop the schools from teaching evolution. I was even then a scientist and researcher. His attempts to explain how evolution was impossible and that teaching it was wrongheaded at best and sinful at worst, had been too much for me. The result of the hour-long phone conversation Charlie and I had was that he told me I couldn't believe in God and believe in evolution. I replied that he was incapable of telling me what I could and couldn't believe because that was between God and me, and Brother Charlie didn't enter into the picture at all. I ceased to be a Baptist that day.

Tarot cards are an extremely complex and subtle symbol system that can be employed to deepen your exploration of magic by several approaches.
These approaches may include:

• Meditation
  
• Path working
  
• Identification of archetypes
  
• Divination
  
• Association with astrology and the Kaballah.
  

The full seventy-eight card deck is traditionally thought of as two different decks, called Arcana, that work together to illumine different aspects of our universe. The twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana are sometimes called Trumps, or Keys. They represent universal "forces" or "laws" or "archetypes" for humankind. The fifty-six cards of the Minor Arcana represent the kinds of things these universal laws act upon.