A Magician from a 19th century woodcut. See full poster here.

Here's a proposal: always leave one card in every Tarot spread face down. Why? Consider this definition of the future:

"It should remain part of the definition of the future that it is unknown; and therefore allowed to retain its proper mystery." —The Future is Tomorrow: 17 Prospective Studies, 1972

Substitute the word "divination" for "definition":

"It should remain part of the divination of the future that it is unknown; and therefore allowed to retain its proper mystery."

See our analysis of Tarot archetypes in the Star Wars series over at MysteryArts.com.

See our guest post at BonnieCehovet.com about Tarot archetypes in Tom Stoppard's absurdist film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

The sunlight was a forgery, or a precise Tarot reading.
—J. Karl Bogartte, Antibodies: A Surrealist Novella

Photo: The Capricious Sun King, by Gilderic