Preface/Postface: What is Intuition? (Read or reread the following section after you read the book.) We play with the Tarot to have fun and develop intuition. We know what fun is, but what is intuition? The American Heritage dictionary calls it “immediate cognition”. Let’s explore. The Tarot is intimately associated with the letters of the Hebrew language. Hebrew words are written with Hebrew letters. All alphabets of the world evolved from the Phoenician/Hebrew alphabet. How many communications in the world today depend on letters of the alphabet? As the key to understanding the alphabet we use so widely the Tarot is therefore a pretty important cultural document. Hebrew is a magical language, rather like writing Chinese with an alphabet. There is a connection between the letters, sounds, and meanings of many Hebrew words. This connection also includes numbers. Hebrew words are mathematical expressions. We can explore the meanings of Hebrew words from the letters with which they are spelled, but first we must know about the letters themselves. Since playing with the Tarot letter-cards develops intuition, let us see how the ancient Hebrews encoded their understanding of intuition with the Hebrew letters that they used to form the Tarot Trumps. Relax and take your time going through this material. Some of it may shock you. If you find you can not accept some or all of what I say, then just consider that we have different viewpoints and enjoy the diversity of life. Whatever its validity with regard to the history of the world, you can take this as my personal interpretation and a reasonably coherent system of understanding and communication.