· The Minor Arcana ·
Wands · Cups · Swords · Pentacles
The texture of a life, as it is lived.
The Minor Arcana are the fifty-six cards divided into four suits.
If the Major Arcana deals with your life, the Minor Arcana deals with your week.
These are the everyday cards: what's happening now, who is involved, and what you are actually dealing with.
Each suit runs Ace through Ten, with an additional four court cards.
The numbered cards describe situations.
The court cards describe people, or the parts of yourself behaving like them.
The Ace is always a beginning.
The Ten is the end of that particular road, for better or worse is up to you.
If a reading returns mostly Minor cards. It is never a lesser meaning.
It is the detail of your life, and it is where most useful answers sit.
- The Suits -
Each suit governs an aspect of your life.
Wands
Wands are fire.
What you want, what drives you, what you are making of your life.
Cups
Cups are water.
What you feel, who you love, what you are avoiding feeling.
Swords
Swords are air.
What you think, what is true, what needs to be expressed or spoken.
Pentacles
Pentacles are earth.
The 3D realm. Your body, your money, your work, your home.
- The Court -
Every suit has the same four court cards.
They behave the same way in each one of the suits.
Pages
Pages are beginners.
Learning, messages arriving, something new and not yet mastered.
Knights
Knights are action.
Fast, single-minded, and often too much of what their suit represents.
Queens
Queens hold the suit inward. They understand it, embody it, and do not need to prove it.
Kings
Kings send the suit outward. They are mastery, authority, and responsibility for others.
- WANDS -
Fire. Will, drive and creation.
These are your ambition, energy, the work you are called to do.
Wands are what happens when you decide you want something.
- Cups -
Water. Feeling, relationships and intuition.
Love, grief, friendship and the interior life.
Cups are what happens beneath the surface of your self.
- SWORDS -
Air. Thought, truth and decision.
Clarity, conflict, communication and difficulty.
Swords are what happens in the mind and what has to be faced.
- PENTACLES -
intellect, authority. The truth, spoken.
Money, home, health and the material world.
Pentacles are what happens in life and the world.
- The Practice -
A single card answers a single question.
Most questions are not asked in isolation.
Cards may therefore be read singly or together, read in spreads: a layout where each position means something before a card is even placed in it.
One position for what is behind you, another for what is ahead.
One for what you can see, another for what you cannot.
The card gives the meaning, and the position tells you what the meaning is about.
This is where the two arcana meet.
A Major card falling in the position of the near future says something very different from the same card falling in the position that has passed. Three suits in a row is a different reading again. And so on...
The spread is the sentence.
The cards are the words.
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