Tarot as Pattern-Tech

Foundation IV — the first of three practices. Read The Mórrígan and grep, Archetype, and Alchemy first; this one stands on all three.

Back in the first one, I made a claim and kept walking before I paid it off. I said a tarot spread is a device that drops a fixed set of archetypal patterns onto the table in front of your priors and forces a re-read. Then the next two handed you the grammar — Archetype gave you the nouns, Alchemy the verbs. So now I owe you an instrument to actually re…