Minor Arcana

The cards that are included in the Minor Arcana specifically focus on the ‘micro’ details of our lives which are made of everything that happens to us every day. But being in the ‘Minor’ Arcana doesn’t mean that the messages provided by these cards are irrelevant. These cards have the specific task of providing us a microscopic view of the details of our lives because, in that way, we can make more sense of what is happening to us and our place in the Universe. Above all, the messages that these cards contain can guide us about the things we should do to be more in line with our destiny.

The Minor Arcana cards consist of 56 cards that are divided into four suits, and these cards symbolize the great challenges that we have to experience throughout our lives. Take notes of the words “we have to” because these cards teach us that this life must not be all about comfort and security. Painful challenges are also necessary to bring the best in us and be the person we are destined to be. Each card has a number that symbolizes the stage of a certain event. The ace card sends the message of beginning

Here are the 4 Suits of a Minor Arcana deck and what each suit represents:

The Suit Of Cups

It symbolizes creativity, emotions, feelings, and intuition that can help in your relationship with yourself and with other people.

The Suit of Pentacles

It symbolizes the aspects that can help grow your financial wealth like work, material things, and finances.

The Suit of Swords

It symbolizes the aspects that can help in your decision making like words, actions, and thoughts.

The Suit of Wands

It symbolizes motivation, passion, and energy which are the aspects that can guide you on the right spiritual path and on your life’s true purpose. Each of these cards is numbered from one to ten, with ace symbolizing number one (which we discussed earlier), and each suit is accompanied by four more cards called Court Cards, which are represented by a (King, Queen, Knight, and a Page).

Major Arcana

Unlike the cards from the Minor Arcana, which are all focused on our day-to-day activities, the cards within the Major Arcana delves into the major aspects that directly affect our lives. These 22 cards symbolize broad and deep things like justice, wisdom, strength, purity, and other things that shape us as human beings. All these cards have powerful messages for our lives, not only because they cover broad aspects but because this deck contains all the aspects of the Universe. And looking through this

Here are the 22 cards that the Major Arcana contains and what each card represents.

Fool

This card represents purity, innocence, loyalty, protection, and challenges.

Magician

It symbolizes the conscious and subconscious mind, abundance, fertility, and divine feminine.

Empress

It shows the cycles of the natural world and the mystical realm. It also symbolizes fertility, life, and connection with Mother Earth.

Emperor

Represents wisdom, experience, authority, power, passion, protection, solid foundation, and hesitation to change even if it’s necessary.

Hierophant

It symbolizes the balance of the conscious, subconscious, and superconscious mind. It is regarded as the male counterpart of the High Priestess.

Lovers

It shows a representation of Angel Gabriel, Adam and Eve, the Tree of Life, and the serpent. It symbolizes the union with the Divine and the temptation that exists in this world which can break the holy union.

Chariot

It embodies the strength of will, spiritual transformation, destined events, the rhythm of life, goals, and intentions.

Strength

This card shows that if inner strength is applied, even the wild nature and instinct of an animal can be tamed without using any force.

Hermit

It signifies spiritual mastery, accomplishment, self-discovery, and a heightened state of awareness.

Wheel of Fortune

It symbolizes formative power, life force, knowledge, strength, and stability, even with the presence of changes.

Justice

This card sends the message of compassion, balance, law, structure, logic, fair justice, firmness in the decision, impartiality, and well-ordered thoughts.

Hanged Man

It shows the world from a different perspective and represents insight, awareness, enlightenment, and human passion.

Death

It represents invincibility, mourning, purity, strength, power, beauty, purification, endings, and beginnings, birth and rebirth, change, and transformation.

Temperance

It sends a message that humans are bound by the natural laws of the Earth. This card also highlights the importance of reflecting on life and finding one’s life purpose and meaning.

The Devil

It symbolizes pleasure, lust, and raw desires, and the heavy consequences of satisfying these things.

The Towers

This card represents chaos and destruction but highlights divine intervention in times of disaster

Star

It embodies the conscious and subconscious mind, fertility, purity, practical abilities, and vulnerability.

Moon

It symbolizes our subconscious mind, dreams, and intuition.

Sun

It shows the importance of optimism and positivity, and being connected with your inner self.

Judgment

This card shows Archangel Gabriel blowing his trumpet, which is a signal of great judgment. It also shows that there’s no way to hide or escape from it.

The World

It symbolizes completion, new beginnings, balance, and harmony on our journey in life.