56 Cards · Four Suits · Four Elements

Minor Arcana — The Everyday Weave

The Minor Arcana speak to the fabric of daily life — relationships, work, challenges, joy. Four suits, fourteen cards each (Ace → 10, plus Page, Knight, Queen, King), mapped to the four classical elements.

Suit of Wands

Fire

ambition, creativity, action · 14 cards

Ace of Wands
Two of Wands
Three of Wands
Four of Wands

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Suit of Cups

Water

emotion, relationships, intuition · 14 cards

Ace of Cups
Two of Cups
Three of Cups
Four of Cups

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Suit of Swords

Air

thought, conflict, truth · 14 cards

Ace of Swords
Two of Swords
Three of Swords
Four of Swords

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Suit of Pentacles

Earth

material, health, abundance · 14 cards

Ace of Pentacles
Two of Pentacles
Three of Pentacles
Four of Pentacles

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Together, the Minor Arcana paint the practical map of a tarot reading. If the Major Arcana are weather patterns, the Minor Arcana are the weather you walk through. The four suits correspond to the four classical elements — Fire, Water, Air, Earth — and to the four humours of lived experience: passion, emotion, intellect, body.

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Twenty-two archetypes that shape the themes the Minor Arcana play out in the everyday.

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