In this "wisdom system" of mine, I don't use numerology in the traditional sense. In this system, numbers are simply used to label parts. They label the imporant parts of a model of ideas, a model designed and governed by patterns in nature. As each number comes to represent certain aspects of an evolving form, a unique brand of numerology takes shape. When these numbers are used in the design of a tarot deck, the parts and patterns that each number represents become linked to individual cards. This linkage then creates an etymological path between logically deduced patterns and subjectively created symbols.

In addition to linking tarot symbols to logically deduced patterns in nature, the deck itself is created by logical analysis. By starting with a single line of numbers, and applying the logic of opposites, multiple number lines are created that relate to each other as opposites. These number lines are then seen as the underlying structure of the deck.

One of the greatest things about The Numerical Tarot deck is this grid matrix organization of the deck, and how it can be used to compare and contrast the meaning of each card to another. The Numerical Tarot is extremely symmetrical in layout and design. All cards that are illustrated as good are bad when reversed, and all cards that are illustrated as bad are good when reversed. As good cards go bad and bad cards go good, their interpretations meet in the middle thereby covering all aspects of each number equally.

NOTE: "Good" and "Bad" are of course subjective terms. The explanations and interpretations offered here are based on my own personal sense of good and bad, and are only offered as suggested possibilities. You may in fact reject the notion of good and bad entirely if you choose. In which case upright and reversed meanings could be taken as simple extremes and inbetweens with no good or bad intent (see the essay Good and Bad, Right and Wrong, Smile and Frown elsewhere on this site).

The successive subdividing of opposites, just described, creates an extremely well defined and practical underlying structure. In The Numerical Tarot, NO CARD STANDS ALONE!! Every card has an opposite to compare and contrast to. This, along with the etymology of each card back to a particular pattern or part of a pattern, provides a virtual trail for each and every interpretation offered, thereby reducing or eliminating ambiguity in tarot interpretations. You CAN NOT offer an interpretation into this system without placing it along a path that will logically explain its meaning back to the most fundamental aspects of its associated number.

To see what these fundamental aspects are, you could study the keyword charts offered here, or the mass assemblage of adjective, nouns and verbs that make up the interpretation pages. To see how this grid matrix organization is conceived and constructed, and see a layout of the deck design, take the "Nickel Tour." After you've learned a little about each number of numerology, you might want to try the Name Numerology Calculator!