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The Minor Arcana Like our modern playing cards, the Minor Arcana (also referred to as the pip cards) is made up of four suits; cups, wands, swords and pentacles. In fact, the modern deck is evolved from the Minor Arcana, and if you feel comfortable reading the jack as both the page and knight and doing without pictorial cards, you can read a playing deck. Each suit consists of 16 cards: ace-ten (pip cards) and four court cards. The four Court cards of each suit make up the Court Arcana. These cards tell of the lesser events in our everyday lives. Like the Major Arcana, each suit tells a story as you progress from the Ace to the King, but each suit tells a slightly different story, depending upon which facet of life the suit reflects. Not only does each suit represent a different area of life (i.e. love, money, work) but they are each connected with an element, a direction on the compass and some of the court cards are associated with zodiac signs as well. In the past they had another significance - suit was connected with a different social class: clergy, peasant, noble and merchant. Click on the headers below to get an overview of each category and then click on the specific card for its meaning.
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