Tarot Cards of Dubious Future

Tarot cards have been a popular divination method for centuries and each region has their own narrative of what cards belong in a deck or not. There are many shuffling techniques as well as different kinds of spreads used for different inquiries or situations. Each practicing mage will have a different opinion on what is best or most efficient - there are pretty much as many opinions as there are cards in the entire world.   Each deck is registered to a person upon purchase, although not all tarot decks are inherently magical, especially the cheapest ones you can find - sometimes the most ordinary paper cards are called training cards and are only used for memorisation of the real ones. Some diviners also make their own cards, but if you want to offer your fortune telling services in public and charge money or other goods for them, you are also require to register them with a local business burreau.   In the classic method of divination, tarot decks are divided into 5 different groups of cards - there are the four decks of minor arcana and then a major arcana group of cards each unique and with their own separate meaning.   Minor arcana decks go from number one all the way to number ten with a child, mother and a father completing the set. There are four different kinds, each corresponding with a different season of the year - the spring, summer, autumn and a winter deck. Sometimes these decks are assigned to different seasons of human life, especially if the diviner in question is of purely human descent, therefore they are referred to as childhoof, adulthood, old age and death cards. In other traditions they are known to describe the four different types of consciousness - ego, identity, subconscious and dreamstate. These are the most common card combinations, but there are many others out there as well.   Major arcana consists of 26 additional card, describing the different seasons of the astral lands (sometimes also nicknamed the lands behind the veil) known as aeons. Time is a wibbly wobbly creature over there but even things beyond reality seem to follow certain patterns and rythms even if it does little more than confuse the mortals. The cycle of these cards is non-linear and they each relate to each other in a spider like pattern, or some also compare it to a tree branching out into different possible realities.