Imagine someone with no engineering background picking up a complex technical blueprint. To them, it looks like a “mess” of lines, arrows, numbers, and strange markings. If they’re asked to copy it, they’ll reproduce it only approximately—they’ll get details wrong, skip something that seems “insignificant,” and worst of all, they won’t even realize where the mistake is. And when that blueprint is “switched on” in the real world, the system won’t work.
Tarot can be understood in a similar way: as a visual code in which every detail has its place, its function, and its relationship to everything else. These aren’t simply pretty pictures—they’re symbols that operate like a language. If someone doesn’t know the grammar of that language, they’ll “read” by ear and by guesswork.
