A: To get the 40 cards you need to play Aquarius Rising, remove:
• all diagonal cards
• all 3-panel cards
• all Wild cards
• all the Goal cards
• one of each full panel card
This will leave you with the following, which is what you’ll need to play:
• 10 full panel cards (2 of each element)
• 10 vertical 2-panel cards
• 10 horizontal 2-panel cards
• 10 4-panel cards
(plus all Action cards – 18 if using later decks, even if AQ 1.0 had only 15, it’s fine.)