This week’s post is not a guide to prediction, but an invitation to see—across time, across style, across the long conversation between image and meaning. Here, the cards reveal not what will happen, but how we have learned to look.

If you have never looked at the tarot as art, what follows offers one of the highest vantage points from which to begin. You can start at the base of the mountain with the origins of the series The Art of Tarot and build up to where this essay takes off from.

Detail of the art by Lady Frieda Harris for The Ace of Cups, Thoth Tarot