Minor Arcana tarot card meanings

If the Majors are the climate, the Minor Arcana are the days. Fifty-six cards, four suits, from Ace through Ten and on into the courts: Page, Knight, Queen, King. This is where tarot talks about the argument you are postponing, the project that will not start, the kindness you keep almost giving.

Wands lean toward spark and will, Cups toward feeling and bond, Swords toward mind and edge, Pentacles toward body, craft, and what you can hold. Those leanings are traditional, not laws. A Pentacles card can still be about love if the question is how you build a life together. A Cups card can still be about work if the question is morale.

Pamela Colman Smith’s public-domain scenes made the Minors readable as pictures, not only as counts of rods or coins. Our meanings are written card by card for this product — editorial reference, not a photocopied little white book — so you can look something up mid-reading without being dragged into a different tone.

Use this hub to enter a suit, then a single card. Let the spread position finish the sentence. The Minors earn their keep when they sound like your Tuesday.