A Tarot deck is a pack of 78 cards – 22 of them being called the Major Arcana and the remaining 56 are called the Minor Arcana.
The Minor Arcana are further divided into four suits:
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Wands,
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Swords,
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Cups, and
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Pentacles.
Each of these suits has 14 cards – ten cards of the suit are numbered 1 through 10 and the remaining 4 are the court cards:
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Page,
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Knight,
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Queen, and
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King.
As we go deeper into the symbolism of the cards, more and more clarity occurs for us as Tarot Card Readers. Each and every symbol in the cards stands for something. These correspondences are mostly man-made. Yet, they serve to create a more powerful meaning of the cards.
