Some versions of Crowley's tarot include two additional variants of this arcanum with different artwork. John age 24 asks: What will happen if break up with my current girlfriend Faith of 8 months and date Tammy the new, hot girl at work? I did use tarot cards years ago, but like other people I know, threw them away because I found them a bit disturbing. The Magi Method is an original system of fortune-telling for use with an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards plus 2 jokers. The Juggler provided Brauner with a key prototype for his self-portrait: the Surrealist's large hat, medieval costume, and the position of his arms all derive from this figure who, like Brauner's subject, stands behind a table displaying a knife, a goblet, and coins.

Gray's books were adopted by members of the 1960s counter-culture as standard reference works on divinatory use of tarot cards, [83] and her 1970 book A Complete Guide to the Tarot was the first work to use the metaphor of the "Fool's Journey" to explain the meanings of the major arcana.Waite (2005) made 34 references to Lévi in all, including references to five of Lévi's books in the bibliography. Da mir seine Art zu legen und zu deuten sehr gefällt, habe ich mir zu den Karten jetzt auch das passende Buch bestellt. The illustration of the tarot card "The Magician" from the Rider–Waite tarot deck was developed by A. Book was listed as 'very good' condition, but when it arrived the cover had stains, creases and folds, and a small tear on one edge. The Magician is depicted with one hand pointing upwards towards the sky and the other pointing down to the earth, interpreted widely as an " as above, so below" reference to the spiritual and physical realms.

The final boss of the first installment is named after The Magician card, and it has reappeared in its second installment, the 'Special' version of the fourth installment, and its remake. The Magi method of playing card fortune-telling differs from other playing card methods in that we use two packs of ordinary playing cards. Magi’s palms stating suspiciously that he had written a book on fortune-telling with playing cards and he was testing him.His robe is similarly also white, a symbol of purity yet also of inexperience, while his red mantle is understood through the lens of red's wildly polarised colour symbolism—both a representative of willpower and passion, and one of egotism, rage, and revenge.