“You don’t just wake up and become the butterfly. Life is a process.”

• Divination with cards started as early as the 1420s
• The word tarot originally translated to ‘foolisness’
• They were originally intended for card games.
• Some of the earliest decks had Christian imagery on them
• Using cards for divination was originally done with basic playing cards. It’s thought that is why even today there are number cards 1-10 and 4 court cards, as well as four suits, mirroring that of standard playing cards.
• Tarot cards as we know them were introduced in 1909, when the Rider-Waite deck became available .
• The Rider-Waite deck has been continually in print and circulation since its first publishing.
• Todays cards are split into two further sections, Major arcana and Minor arcana.
• There are 22 major arcana, and 56 minor arcana. Making each deck 78 cards in total.

• Huh?
• Foot wiggle foot wiggle foot wiggle
• Where did I put the- oh got it.
• Clenching your jaw
• There's 23 songs, 12 vines/tiktoks, a television line, and a dial-up noise all in my head at the same time
• D I S S O C I A T E
• Are you going somewhere?
• What was I doing?
• Ooop bad noise don't like that noise
• Simultaneously recite Shakespeare and stare blankly at the wall
• Stare blankly at the wall
• COLLECT THE THINGS
• I've repeated the same movement twelve times because it somehow brings me comfort
• Blankets blankets blankets BlAnKeTs
• I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I'm sorry could you repeat that? I'm sorry could you-
• Nod and smile
• Cry at the sight of a stack of papers
• I don't see it, it no longer exists
• I'm looking right at it, it somehow STILL doesn't exist

celtic mythology + major goddesses