Many have expressed an interest in understanding the difference between the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana cards that make up a tarot deck. An in-depth answer to this question would take more space than this article allows.
The standard tarot deck consists of 78 cards. These cards are divided into 2 basic subsets. The first division is the Minor Arcana, which consists of four suits that loosely correspond to the four suits of modern-day playing cards. The decks, these four suits are called Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles. Each suit is made up of 10 number cards (Ace through Ten) and four royalty cards (Page, Knight, Queen, & King), instead of the 3 normally found in playing cards, for a combined total of 56 cards.Continue reading