This page groups tarot cards by their rank within a suit, from Ace up through the face cards. Wikipedia notes "each suit has 14 cards: ten pip cards numbering from one (or Ace) to ten; and four face cards: King, Queen, Knight, and Jack/Knave/Page." Browsing by rank lets a visitor find every card sharing the same rank across all four suits.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingThe four suits of the tarot pack: the cards the tarot shares with the ordinary Italian playing-card pack, from which they were taken. 2 Size of the Traditional Set56 suit cards: four suits of fourteen, ace to ten plus four court cards 2 Origins
Origin of the Name"Minor Arcana" is a coinage of the nineteenth-century French occult tarot; in the original game these were simply the suit cards. 3 Learn More
The Minor Arcana
This group holds the fifty-six cards of the Minor Arcana, the four suits of the tarot (traditionally Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles), each running from Ace to Ten and adding four court cards. Where the Major Arcana carry the great archetypes, the Minor Arcana are read as the everyday circumstances, actions and feelings of ordinary life.
The browser will find the fifty-six Minor Arcana across the four suits. The entries describe each card's imagery and meanings. The atlas notes that the suited cards descend from ordinary playing cards and that their divinatory meanings are a later, chiefly modern, development.
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake City
Michael Dummett, Duckworth, 1980on the Italian pack and the tarotView the Source 3. A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot
Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett, St Martin's Press, 1996on the invention of the occult tarot vocabularyView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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