Strategy 3: Following the Eyes, Gestures, and Clues Given by the Cards
A decisive step in the development of your relationship with the Tarot, this stage consists of following the direction in which the card figures are looking, or the appeal of a symbol, and answering this question: "What is this person looking at?" Or even: "What aid is The Magician's wand summoning? What is Arcanum XIII transforming? Who is turning the handle of The Wheel of Fortune?" The cards echo each other this way, creating a dynamic that makes it possible to read them without a preliminary structure or question, as we would decipher a rebus or a story told in pictures. As the base, you draw three cards; if card A of the sentence opens a question toward the left, to answer it, it is appropriate to draw a new card for this side. The same is true if card C leaves an opening toward the right. We add cards this way until the sentence is finished and the interactions of the cards within it have been stabilized. Similarly, if the meaning of one of the cards is not clear, you can pull another card above it to make its message more precise.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, The Way of Tarot
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