Tarot cards
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Tarot Cards are familiar to most people, being the origin, supposedly, of modern playing cards. They are split into two parts, the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. Let's look at the latter first, as you'll be more familiar with the imagery.
[edit] The Minor Arcana
The Minor Arcana is made up of four suits, each of which has cards numbered one (Ace) to ten. There are four court cards - the King and Queen remain the same as a standard pack of cards, but the Jack is instead split between the Page card, and the Knight card.
The four suits are as follows:
- The Suit of Wands - linked to creativity and production (and Clubs)
- The Suit of Cups - linked to emotion and dreams (and Hearts)
- The Suit of Swords - linked to intellect and reason (and Spades)
- The Suit of Pentacles - linked to material possessions and health (and Diamonds)
[edit] The Major Arcana
Modern playing cards have only one 'Wild Card', the Joker. Tarot cards have a whole 22 extra cards:
- The Fool - Card '0'
- The Magician - Card 1
- The High Priestess - Card 2
- The Empress - Card 3
- The Emperor - Card 4
- The Hierophant - Card 5
- The Lovers - Card 6
- The Chariot - Card 7
- Strength - Card 8
- The Hermit - Card 9
- The Wheel Of Fortune - Card 10
- Justice - Card 11
- The Hanged Man - Card 12
- Death - Card 13
- Temperance - Card 14
- The Devil - Card 15
- The Tower - Card 16
- The Star - Card 17
- The Moon - Card 18
- The Sun - Card 19
- Judgement - Card 20
- The World - Card 21
