In Italo Calvino’s 1973 novel The Castle of Crossed Destinies, two groups of travelers bed down for the night in a forest.

Tarot reader Daniel Pillai’s tips for creating an insightful evening of self-reflection — solo or with friends.

For a time, I found something spiritual—or spiritual-seeming—in tarot cards, a tool long deployed by thinkers in New Age circles. I bought a classic Rider-Waite-Smith deck from a New Age ...