My No-bullshit Monsoon Tarot Page

So I happened to get a Monsoon Tarot deck for dirt cheap. And I really like it. However, the information on this deck is extremely sparce and fragmentary. The only two things there are on this deck are its interpretation guide and different shops’ descriptions for it. And the cards themselves, of course. Featuring Zodiac signs and alchemical symbols. I don’t like that the creator of the deck disposed of conventional symbols like sphinxes, pomegranates, etc. But it’s a nice deck I’m going to use anyway.

But reference material is really lacking. I had to infer a lot of things myself to even start understanding the deck. Some assumptions:

Suits

Suits are not conventional Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles. Instead, they are classic alchemical elements: Fire, Air, Water, and Earth. Respectively. They are easy to map, because conventional suits have associations with elements already. Card descriptions kinda match this interpretation, albeit vaguely.

Gender balance

This deck, unlike Reader-Waite-Smith, is much more gender balanced. So I can safely interpret cards with females as relating to females, and cards with males—as males. No non-binary support in this deck, though?

Second interpretation

The guide does not specify what the second / lower interpretation means. Conventionally, one can (and probably should) interpret it as reversed car meaning. However, this “reversed” meaning does not always make sense as an anti-thesis of “upright” meaning. Dunno, interpret however you like.

On this page, I also listed links to respective RWS cards from my No-Bullshit Tarot page for reference and comparison.

Oh, and by the way, I took the original guide, compressed it, ran through OCR and am hosting it here:

• Original guide (7MB)
• Original guide, but with English interpretation pages only (4MB)
• Original guide, but with English-only and OCR-ed text (8MB)

Get to the reading, won’t you?

Table Of Contents

Major arcana

The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, The World,

Air

Ace of Air, Two of Air, Three of Air, Four of Air, Five of Air, Six of Air, Seven of Air, Eight of Air, Nine of Air, Ten of Air, Page of Air, Knight of Air, Queen of Air, King of Air,

Fire

Ace of Fire, Two of Fire, Three of Fire, Four of Fire, Five of Fire, Six of Fire, Seven of Fire, Eight of Fire, Nine of Fire, Ten of Fire, Page of Fire, Knight of Fire, Queen of Fire, King of Fire,

Water

Ace of Water, Two of Water, Three of Water, Four of Water, Five of Water, Six of Water, Seven of Water, Eight of Water, Nine of Water, Ten of Water, Page of Water, Knight of Water, Queen of Water, King of Water,

Earth

Ace of Earth, Two of Earth, Three of Earth, Four of Earth, Five of Earth, Six of Earth, Seven of Earth, Eight of Earth, Nine of Earth, Ten of Earth, Page of Earth, Knight of Earth, Queen of Earth, King of Earth,

Table of Cards

Copyright notice: I didn’t list card images here, as they likely constitute copyrighted material. Interpretations guide, however, is accessible on the Internet for free, so I believe it safe to copy from.