I used the Ancestral Path deck (not a Rider Waite clone). I ended up with 23 cards.

Tower of the Sea--Represents your true voice: what you are really saying within.

Quote from meditation: "I'm tired of kissing everybody's ass!" I exclaim. "It's *MY* life and it's time for me to use my energies for what *I* want to accomplish, before it's too late!"

Drew: Seven of Swords--My neighbor, who steals my piece of mind (Oops, was that a Freudian slip, or what?) whose ass I got tired of kissing.

Major: Chariot--directed energy and independent action

Minor: Prince of Swords--In the Ancestral Path, this card features a samurai with a huge silver crescent on his helmet. He appears restfully contemplative, but prepared to strike. What is that dagon thing on his head?

 

Tower of Hospitality--Represents the joy of your childhood: what you need to regain now.

Quote from meditation: "You probably think it's hard to be the only girl in a tower full of boys, but it's really fun." (Also applies to being American in Switzerland, to a lesser degree.)

Drew: Tower--creative "lightning flash" of inspiration, super-natural gifts and adversities (or 'super, natural' or 'super/natural'???)

Major: Star--One of my fondest childhood memories is believing that the sound of the cicadas was the sound of the stars twinkling. I think my aunt told me that. Magic. Super. Natural.

Minor: Ten of Sacred Circles--This card epitomizes the tribal-like hospitality and family life I have in the U.S. Like a warm night on the porch after dinner at Aunt Irma's. Super natural.

 

Tower of Riches--Represents the sum of your life's insights: what is most true for you.

Quote from meditation: If he's not going to talk, I feel I shouldn't either. (Words can't communicate it, only experience can teach it.)

Drew: Queen of Swords--Figure it out for yourself.

Major: Justice--Truth and Right.

Minor: Five of Swords--Training

 

Tower of Trees--Represents your destiny: your true direction.

Quote from meditation: "It was crafted by the Master. It's quite valuable. Do you think you can afford it?. . . Let's have a look at it in the light." . . . "Every man and every woman is a Star."

Drew: Two of Swords--Which Way do I go?

Major: The World--Every way . . . All is One . . .

Minor: Three of Cups--. . . in harmony, without collisions . . . One is All.

 

Tower of the Four Corners--Represents your lost opportunities.

Quote from meditation: I look through the other door and see my man opening his arms to me. I automatically step through . . .

Drew: The Lovers--'nuff said.

Major: The Lovers--It could only be. For both Love and Choice.

Minor: Here's where I couldn't make a choice:

Eight of Cups--leaving the cups and setting out for the remote stones

Two of Staves--friends part ways, as each follows their own adventure

Eight of Swords--she has only one available path to walk

Two of Sacred Circles--change is good, don't linger in the hallway, cultivate the things that make stepping through the right door automatic

 

Tower of Carousel--Represents your childhood or inner friend: your creative instinct.

Quote from meditation: "Now I know why Mushy Bear means so much to me."

Drew: Prince of Sacred Circles--Mushy Bear

Major: Death--Dracula's daughters

Minor: Queen of Cups--The "Princess" fairy tales and fantasies of my youth, some of which have become real!

 

Tower of Glass--Represents the key to initiation: the challenge which faces you next.

Quote from meditation: It lands on the beach in fine granules, like sparkly silver sand. And lying there in the middle of it all is a golden key.

Drew: Six of Sacred Circles--Give. Take.

Major: Temperance--The beach is a liminal space--between land and sea. Temperance has one foot on land, one in the water. Also, tempering/mixing the silver and gold.

Minor: Six of Swords--I'm not sure why I picked this card originally. But the meditating monk pictured looks like he would know that one doesn't *need* to climb the mountain, or battle the current, when the key is downstream on the beach. (See further explanation.)

 

Totals

Majors: (7) + 2 (counting Lovers twice)

Swords: 7

Staves: 1

Cups: 3

Sacred Circles: 4

Courts: 4