The 78, card by card
A new appendix, one entry per card: what the picture shows, and the matter it offers a scene. Never what it means.
A new appendix — what each of the 78 cards shows.
Here is the problem it solves. You draw a card, and nothing comes. It happens, mostly early on, and there is nothing wrong with you when it does. So you reach for your phone, look the card up, and what comes back is a fortune-teller's catalogue: fixed meanings, upright and reversed, written for divination and knowing nothing at all about the Scenethe unit of play: you open it, you play it, you close it.part 3 you are in the middle of.
The book already allowed this. Part 2 said in as many words that you could lean on your deck's booklet, an app, a website. What it never did was give you anything of its own to lean on — the tarot appendix stopped at the footing, the Suits (the four)Wands/Fire, what cannot wait · Cups/Water, what comes back · Swords/Air, the line that separates · Pentacles/Earth, what remains. They say a card’s matter, and how you acted.part 4 and the numbers and the Major Arcanumone of the twenty-two named cards, from The Fool to The World. It does not answer: it names, and it weighs.parts 2, 4, 6, and left you to go looking elsewhere for the cards themselves.
Appendix C now goes down to the card. All 78, one by one, and two things for each: what is in the picture, and the matter it offers a scene.
What it is deliberately not is a Table (the)the surface in front of you: the cards drawn stay in view on it for the length of the scene.parts 2, 7 of meanings. It never tells you what a card means, because a card has no fixed meaning — it has the one your question calls for. It describes, then hands you something to carry into your world. Take it if it suits you; leave it if your scene calls for something else. You are never checking an answer.
It is also written to be outgrown. As you play, the Six of Cups will stop saying “what comes back from childhood” and start saying that canal, that friend found again, the scene it fell in the first time. The day you close those pages without having consulted them, your tarot has become your own.
Also in this update: the play aid moves to appendix D and the lexicon to E, to make room. No rule changed — not one.
Both editions, both formats: French and English, PDF and EPUB. The whole book is also free to read online here, appendix included.
Ashcan edition: the book is complete and playable; it is not finished. Tell me what breaks.