THE
STORY OF STRENGTH AND JUSTICE
One or two people have
been asking why we chose to adopt the older ordering of the Major Arcana in the
Wildwood Tarot, specifically in the placing of the Strength and Justice cards.
Really this all goes back to good old A.E.Waite, who stamped his presence on so
many of the more recent decks. Most modern tarot creators
have chosen
to follow this ordering of the Arcana, placing Strength
at #8 and
Justice #11. In fact Waite was much criticised for this, many tarots users
feeling he had upset the divine ordering of the cards which had previously
followed both a numerical and astrological order. Aleister Crowley, in his
Thoth deck, chose to restore
the original order – since when individual tarot creators have made their own
choice which order the cards would follow.