The Minor Arcana make up the bulk of the Tarot cards. There are 56 Minor Arcana cards in total covering the elements of Fire, Water, Earth and Air.

The Minor Arcana are best studied after learning about the Major Arcana first. A working knowledge of the Major Arcana helps when learning the Minors or pips.

The Minor Arcanas divisions are similar to that of normal playing cards. There are 4 suits and then court cards. The suits of the Minor Arcana are Wands (Staves in some books), Cups, Swords and Pentacles (Coins). Each suit has it's own King, Queen, Knight and Page.

Their correspondence to the elements is as follows: Wands = Fire = Aries, Sag. Leo Pentacles = Earth = Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn Swords = Air = Gemini, Libra, Aquarius Cups = Water = Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

Some decks use the Page and Princess instead of Knight. It is up to the reader to determine which meaning is appropriate to their deck as this site covers the court cards as mentioned above.

When reading the Minor Arcana it is important to remember that although the meanings are important here, it is unlikely that the Minor Arcana will show issues that will be as important as the Major Arcana. Thus, when seeing these cards in readings, it is important to look at the Major Arcana in the reading first, to get a better understanding of the issues in the person's life.

Feel free to have a look through the Minor Arcana meanings. This is one of the few places on the Web that actually has all of their meanings in total on each seperate page. I hope that you find this useful for your learning.

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