Home›Subcategories›Minor ArcanaSubcategoriesMinor Arcana56 of 78 entries in Tarot. Click any to see everything it connects to.Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Minor Arcana." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/subcategories/tarot/minor-arcana.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Minor Arcana. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/subcategories/tarot/minor-arcanaCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-minor-arcana, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Minor Arcana}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/subcategories/tarot/minor-arcana}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThe fifty-six suit cards of the tarot: four suits of fourteen, running ace to ten and then through the court cards. The suits (most often Wands, Cups, Swords and Coins or Pentacles), are conventionally matched to the four classical elements, and the numbered cards are read through the number as much as through the suit. They are the older half of the deck: the suits descend from ordinary playing cards, while the trumps were added to them.FactsLearn MoreSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedThe four suits of the tarot pack: the cards the tarot shares with the ordinary Italian playing-card pack, from which they were taken. 2Size of the Traditional SetWell-attested56 suit cards: four suits of fourteen, ace to ten plus four court cards 2OriginsOrigin of the NameWell-attested"Minor Arcana" is a coinage of the nineteenth-century French occult tarot; in the original game these were simply the suit cards. 3DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedTarot 1BrowseCompareSelect all 56 Ace of WandsMinor Arcana2 links Two of WandsMinor Arcana3 links Three of WandsMinor Arcana3 links Four of WandsMinor Arcana3 links Five of WandsMinor Arcana3 links Six of WandsMinor Arcana3 links Seven of WandsMinor Arcana3 links Eight of WandsMinor Arcana3 links Nine of WandsMinor Arcana3 links Ten of WandsMinor Arcana3 links Page of WandsMinor Arcana1 link Knight of WandsMinor Arcana1 link Queen of WandsMinor Arcana1 link King of WandsMinor Arcana1 linkAce of CoinsMinor Arcana2 linksTwo of CoinsMinor Arcana3 linksThree of CoinsMinor Arcana3 linksFour of CoinsMinor Arcana3 linksFive of CoinsMinor Arcana3 linksSix of CoinsMinor Arcana3 linksSeven of CoinsMinor Arcana3 linksEight of CoinsMinor Arcana3 linksNine of CoinsMinor Arcana3 linksTen of CoinsMinor Arcana3 linksPage of CoinsMinor Arcana1 linkKnight of CoinsMinor Arcana1 linkQueen of CoinsMinor Arcana1 linkKing of CoinsMinor Arcana1 linkAce of CupsMinor Arcana2 linksTwo of CupsMinor Arcana3 linksThree of CupsMinor Arcana3 linksFour of CupsMinor Arcana3 linksFive of CupsMinor Arcana3 linksSix of CupsMinor Arcana3 linksSeven of CupsMinor Arcana3 linksEight of CupsMinor Arcana3 linksNine of CupsMinor Arcana3 linksTen of CupsMinor Arcana3 linksPage of CupsMinor Arcana1 linkKnight of CupsMinor Arcana1 linkQueen of CupsMinor Arcana1 linkKing of CupsMinor Arcana1 linkAce of SwordsMinor Arcana2 linksTwo of SwordsMinor Arcana3 linksThree of SwordsMinor Arcana3 linksFour of SwordsMinor Arcana3 linksFive of SwordsMinor Arcana3 linksSix of SwordsMinor Arcana3 linksSeven of SwordsMinor Arcana3 linksEight of SwordsMinor Arcana3 linksNine of SwordsMinor Arcana3 linksTen of SwordsMinor Arcana3 linksPage of SwordsMinor Arcana1 linkKnight of SwordsMinor Arcana1 linkQueen of SwordsMinor Arcana1 linkKing of SwordsMinor Arcana1 linkLearn MoreThe 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.Sources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Game of Tarot: From Ferrara to Salt Lake Citytier 1Michael Dummett, Duckworth, 1980on the Italian pack and the tarotView the Source3. A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarottier 1Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett, St Martin's Press, 1996on the invention of the occult tarot vocabularyView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. 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