The Minor Arcana| Lesson Two
*IMPORTANT LESSON: This is my "code" to identifying every card's meaning.
time to dive deeper
Understanding the 56 Minor Arcana Cards
In order to memorize every card, you first have to defeat the monster of memorization: their name is doubt. There is no reason to doubt yourself. You are not memorizing 78 cards. You are understanding what does each suit mean? Where is this number on a scale of 1-10? What character in the story am I looking at? There is a lot of symbol repetition, and there is a lot of cards that are even easy to understand just by the color in the background.
Even if you have never pulled the knight of pentacles, what do you see? A man on a horse bringing a giant coin. Start trusting yorself when you think “oh, maybe someone will be bringing me some kind of financial gain, or bringing me an offer of some kind."
This lesson is to help you stop looking up every single card, because a great deal of tarot is intuition, alongside varying interpretations.
With this formula you will be able to understand the building blocks of the cards, and then soon enough you will put together the meanings in a split second!
Lets Learn The Minor Arcana Together!
Download this sheet to reference while I explain the bulk of this elaborate deck. The minor cards make up 56 cards out of 78.
Cups, Pentacles, Wands, and Swords
Why are these the basic building blocks of tarot?
How did Pamela-Coleman-Smith change the entire trajectory of modern tarot culture with her minor arcana illustrations?
