Editor’s Note: Tarot Readings are a major thematic and stylistic component of the 2020 X-Men comics event, X of Swords. Since it’s not a field I know, I’m excited to bring in a specialist to provide unique readings based in the Tarot connections of the story. We’ll be running these Tarot examinations following each of the event’s 22 parts. Enjoy!
Last week I analyzed X of Swords: Creation and its connection to the Major Arcana card number 0, “The Fool.” The 22 Major Arcana cards represent a spiritual journey: the second chapter on this story is the card number 1, The Magician, and according to our theory it should correspond with the second chapter of the “X of Swords” crossover, X-Factor #4
, the first chapter in the major X-Men: X of Swords crossover, written by Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard, has just arrived and it has sent the X-Men and their readers on a quest for the future of Krakoa. The story will be divided in 22 parts just like the 22 tarot cards known as the Major Arcana. The Major Arcana each represent a chapter in a spiritual journey, much like the one the mutant community is undergoing right now. I’m a tarotist myself, and if you’re interested in my insight on this story I invite you to keep reading.