Order	Letter	Seph.Yetzirah Attrib.
1	א (aleph)	Air
2	ב (beth)	Mercury
3	ג (gimel)	Moon
4	ד (daleth)	Venus
5	ה (heh)	Aries
6	ו (vau)	Taurus
7	ז (zayin)	Gemini
8	ח (cheth)	Cancer
9	ט (teth)	Leo
10	י (yod)	Virgo
11	כ (kaph)	Jupiter
12	ל (lamed)	Libra
13	ם (mem)	Water
14	נ (nun)	Scorpio
15	ס (samech)	Sagittarius
16	ע (ayin)	Capricorn
17	פ (peh)	Mars
18	צ (tzaddi)	Aquarius
19	ק (qoph)	Pisces
20	ר (resh)	Sun
21	ש (shin)	Fire
22	ת (tau)	Saturn

	3 Mother Letters (Elements)
	7 Double Letters (Planets)
	12 Simple Letters (Zodiac)

The secret of the initiated interpretation, which makes the whole meaning of the Trumps luminous, is simply to put the card marked “0” in its natural place, where any mathematician would have put it, in front of the number One.
But there is still one peculiarity, one disturbance in the natural sequence. For the card XI is called “Strength”; on it appears a Lion, and it quite evidently refers to the zodiacal sign Leo, whereas the card VIII is called “Justice”, and represents the conventional symbolic figure, throned, with sword and balances, thus obviously referring to the zodiacal sign of Libra, the Balance. These cards, VIII and XI, have to be counterchanged.
As soon as one possesses the true attributions of the trumps, the Tarot leaps into life. One is intellectually knocked down by the rightness of it. All the difficulties created by the traditional attributions, as understood by the ordinary scholar, disappear in a flash.
For this reason, one is inclined to credit the claim for the promulgators of the cipher manuscript, that they were guardians of a tradition of Truth.

If the Tarot trumps were simply applied in order to the Hebrew letters, with 0 the Fool on the first letter, then VIII Justice would fall on the letter Teth, and XI Strength would fall on the letter Lamed. In the correspondence between the Simple letters and the zodiac signs that is given in Sepher Yetzirah, this would put the sign Leo on the trump Justice, and the sign Libra on the trump Strength.
But there is an obvious problem. Leo is the sign of the lion, a beast symbolic of virility and strength, and Libra is the sign of the scales, the primary symbol of justice. The trump Strength shows in its picture a lion, and the trump Justice shows in its picture a set of scales.

It was obvious to Mathers, and indeed would be obvious to almost anyone, that it would be more appropriate to link the trump Justice with Libra, and the trump Strength with Leo. How could he do this? The Hebrew letters could not be inverted. The associations of the zodiac signs with the Simple letters could not be changed, since they are quite explicit in Sepher Yetzirah. The only thing to do was to invert the titles & ATU images of Justice and Strength. This corrected the obvious error in symbolism on these two trumps.
This is the sequence used in the Rider-Waite deck.