How to memorize multiple-meaning of each tarot card?
I can store the name of a card with a peg list but what about keywords and meaning of each card? How should I store it? Linking?
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Personally, and please keep in mind i do not really know what I’m talking about, I would be very tempted to treat a deck of Tarot cards no differently than any other playing cards ie Association for the Major Arcana and Major system for the minor then instead of giving each card an ‘action’ and an ‘object’ I would encode the meanings both upright and reverse. All stored in a memory palace as you would a normal deck.
For example: La Maison Dieu reminds me of erectile dysfunction so it could be Pele (who once campaigned for more openness about the subject). The lightening struck tower image already contains the major meanings of the card if i recall aright. Infact if i recall my basic biblical studies aright the meanings are already encoded in the Major Arcana cards…to a degree anyways.
Been thinking about this one, off and on, since you posted as its an interesting question (yes I am a sad old lonely man who has no social life). I reckon that learning the Major Arcana would be ‘a piece of piss’ (that’s Brit for ‘very easy’) perhaps easier than learning a standard poker deck because the Major Arcana ARE mnemonic images and contain a lot of Christian art/motifs instantly recognisable to most people raised in the lands of Christendom (For example The Devil, The Pope, The Resurrection etc )! So much so one almost doesn’t need a mnemonic system to learn them.
I like the idea of a 78 Card deck with 22 Trump Cards, 4 suits and a bunch of stories woven through them for memory palaces and peg systems. It’s currently number 9 on my memo set lists. I’m working on number 2 
. You could fill all the memory palaces with things you wanted long term with a nice stable well-documented system that if you forget you can just look it up. Astrology, Astronomy, and Greek Mythology are 3 others I would like to have a look at but the Tarot Books seem like a reasonable step after getting PAO sorted and maybe getting words sorted.
Astrology has similar tools but tarot seems more linear/hierarchal.
I might be wrong but adding a star-map to a bunch of wheels seems like it lets you build a network model rather than a tree.
My head has always found hierarchal idioms with categories much easier to consume than concept maps. Not that I don’t want to be able to do concept maps. I suspect that I will need to be comfortable with trees before I start spending time with networks.
I see a ton of content on the Waite deck but the Thoth deck seems like a lot more fun in terms of random crazy stories. Crowley was a prolific writer. Not as much as his buddy, Hubbard but more than enough to provide a lifetime of memory palaces.
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Curious to find out how you got on?
Real tarot is much more complex than a deck of playing cards:
78 cards total, comprised of:
- 2 categories
- 4 suits
Then within each suit you have:
- people
- messengers (which sound like people but are not)
- time cycles
- seasons
- location
- health
- numerology
- astrology (many of the person cards are designated by sign)
Plus you also have an interweaving of categories + suits with known multiples that have specific meanings.
And it’s not at all hierarchical or religious.
I’m currently trying to work out a system for effective memorisation… so if you (or anyone else!) has any suggestions, I’m open to considering any approach. 
Did you finalize a system for remembering the keywords associated with the Major Arcana?
Another sad old geezer in UK asking.
I guess not. Has anyone else?