Complete Alphabets of Meaning

This section gathers the symbol sets that function as closed alphabets of meaning, fixed collections in which every member has a defined sense and the members combine to say more. It holds the seventy-eight cards of the tarot and their four suits, the runes of the Germanic futharks, the numbers of numerology and their positions, the sixty-four hexagrams and eight trigrams of the I Ching, and the figures of sacred geometry.

Each of these is at once a set of symbols and, for many users, a method: the tarot dealt into a spread, the runes cast, the hexagram obtained by counting yarrow stalks or coins, the birth name reduced to a number.