The Minor Arcana:

The 56 Minor Arcana cards are divided into four suits, much like traditional playing cards. These are Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles.

Some of the suits may have other names:

Wands are also known as Rods or Batons

Pentacles are also known as Coins or Discs

Each suit has numbered cards 1-10, and 4 court cards: Page, Knight, Queen and King

Astrological elements and signs associated with each suit are:

Wands – Fire – Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Cups – Water – Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces

Swords – Air – Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

Pentacles – Earth – Virgo, Capricorn and Taurus

Wands are associated with career, work, and creativity

Cups are associated with emotions and affairs of the heart

Swords are associated with our thoughts and intellect

Pentacles are associated with money and material matters

We will cover the Minor Arcana cards in lessons 4-9.

Homework:

Spend the next week studying this information on the Major and Minor Arcana using your cards. It will certainly give you a broad base of understanding, as a foundation to build more detailed knowledge of the Tarot deck in the coming weeks.

Which court card is your astrological card?

Queen – adult woman of any age

King – men aged 35 or over

Knight – men aged under 35

Page – a male or female child or adolescent