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The Deck

The Major Arcana

The Heavy Hitters

The Fool
"And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something
new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
~ Meister Eckhart

The Magician
“Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.”
~ T.F. Hodge

The High
Priestess
"Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the
soul into the universal current of life."
~ Paulo Coelho

The Empress
"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture, and transform."
~ Diane Mariechild

The Emperor
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he
who has mastered himself is mightier still."
~ Lao Tzu

The Hierophant
"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer."
~ W. Somerset Maugham

The Lovers
"To love is to choose."
~ Joseph Roux

The Chariot
"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."
~ William Ernest Henley

Strength
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."
~ Mary Anne Radmacher

The Hermit
"In stillness lives wisdom. In quiet, you'll find peace. In solitude, you'll remember yourself."
~ Robin Sharma

The Wheel of Fortune
"Life is a wheel. The same wheel that crushes us will raise us up again."
~ Unknown

Justice
"It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered."
~ Aristotle

The Hanged Man
"Remember that surrender is an act of will."
~ Melissa Cynova

Death
"New beginnings are often disguised
as painful endings."
~ Lao Tzu

Temperance
"Life is about balance. Be kind, but don't let people abuse you. Trust, but don't be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself."
~ Nishan Panwa

The Devil
"We gain the strength of
the temptation we resist."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Tower
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
~ Chuck Palahniuk

The Star
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."
~ Emily Dickinson
~ Emily Dickinson

The Moon
"She was a wild, wicked slip of a girl. She burned too bright for this world."
~ Emily Brontë

The Sun
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
~ Hans Christian Andersen

Judgement
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
~ Joseph Campbell

The World
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
~ Carl Jung

The Minor Arcana


Ace of Cups
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

2 of Cups
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more."
– Nicholas Sparks

3 of Cups
"Friendship is the wine of life."
– Edward Young

4 of Cups
"If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment,
we miss everything."
– Thich Nhat Hanh

5 of Cups
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
– Lena Horne

6 of Cups
"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."
– Dr. Seuss

7 of Cups
"You can't depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus."
– Mark Twain
when your imagination is out of focus."
– Mark Twain

8 of Cups
"You don’t need strength to let go of something.
What you really need is understanding."
– Guy Finley

9 of Cups
"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you."
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

10 of Cups
"What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family."
– Mother Teresa

Page of Cups
"The soul should always stand ajar,
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
– Emily Dickinson

Knight of Cups
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
– Oscar Wilde

Queen of Cups
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
– Maya Angelou

King of Cups
"Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity."
– Samuel Ullman


Ace of Pentacles
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
– Audrey Hepburn

2 of Pentacles
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
– Albert Einstein

3 of Pentacles
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up."
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

4 of Pentacles
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

5 of Pentacles
"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by
how many times I fell down and got back up again."
– Nelson Mandela

6 of Pentacles
"No man becomes rich unless he enriches others."
– Andrew Carnegie

7 of Pentacles
"A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap!"
– Abraham Lincoln

8 of Pentacles
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
– Vince Lombardi

9 of Pentacles
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."
– Charlotte Brontë

10 of Pentacles
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill

Page of Pentacles
"Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises."
– Demosthenes

Knight of Pentacles
"It does not matter how slowly you go
as long as you do not stop."
– Confucius

Queen of Pentacles
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
~ Maya Angelou

King of Pentacles
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
– John C. Maxwell



Ace of Swords
"Clarity precedes success."
– Robin Sharma

2 of Swords
"Indecision is the thief of opportunity."
– Jim Rohn

3 of Swords
"The heart will break, but broken live on."
– Lord Byron

4 of Swords
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."
– William S. Burroughs

5 of Swords
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster."
– Friedrich Nietzsche

6 of Swords
"You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending."
– James R. Sherman

7 of Swords
"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time."
– Abraham Lincoln

8 of Swords
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make
a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
– John Milton

9 of Swords
"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."
– Arthur Somers Roche

10 of Swords
"The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the Infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more."
– The Dhammapada

Page of Swords
"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning."
– William Arthur Ward

Knight of Swords
"Action is the foundational key to all success."
– Pablo Picasso
"Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction."
– Mahatma Gandhi

Queen of Swords
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
– Albert Camus

King of Swords
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
– Jimi Hendrix


Ace of Wands
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
– Eleanor Roosevelt

2 of Wands
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

3 of Wands
"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change."
– Maya Angelou

4 of Wands
"The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate."
– Oprah Winfrey

5 of Wands
"Challenges are what make life interesting;
overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
– Joshua J. Marine

6 of Wands
"Self-confidence is the memory of success."
– David Storey

7 of Wands
"Stand up for what is right, even if you stand alone."
– Suzy Kassem

8 of Wands
"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
– Theodore Roosevelt

9 of Wands
“Persistence and resilience only come from having been
given the chance to work through difficult problems."
– Gever Tulley

10 of Wands
"Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you;
they’re supposed to help you discover who you are."
– Bernice Johnson Reagon

Page of Wands
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
– Helen Keller

Knight of Wands
"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Queen of Wands
"She remembered who she was, and the game changed."
– Lalah Delia

King of Wands
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
– Warren Bennis
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