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Symbols of the Tarot
To understand the Tarot you need to familiarize yourself with the meanings of the four suits and the meanings of their symbols. The cups, coins, disks and wands of the Tarot deck derive their meaning from cartomancy. Cartomancy is the ancient gypsy art of reading a plain deck of cards.
The minor arcana of every Tarot deck contains 56 cards divided into four suits with each suit maintaining its own sphere of influence. The four suits are the Cups, Pentacles (also referred to Disks or Coins in some decks), Wands (sometimes referred to as Batons) and the Swords. In a deck of conventional playing cards the Cups related to the suit of Hearts, the Diamonds to Pentacles, the Wands to Clubs and the Swords to Spades.
Each of these four suits reigns over their own special spheres of influence.
?The Cups suit deals with emotional matters, love, sex marriage, fertility and creativity.
?The Pentacles suit pertains to matters such as wealth finance commerce prosperity, career and economic security.
?The Swords suit refers to legal matters, the wheels of progress, heartbreak, betrayal, opposition, breakthroughs and the need to impose order on chaos.
?Wands represent the mind, inspiration, guidance, the world of ideas, deep thought, intellect, purpose and potential.
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In addition, there 78 cards in a Tarot Deck. These 78 cards are divided into the Major and Minor Arcanas. The Minor Arcana relates to the ordinary playing deck. Most of the cards in the Minor Arcana represent events or qualities. The additional 22 cards included in the traditional Tarot deck represent the 22 stages of a person?s individual passage through life, from non-existence, birth, love, marriage, death spiritual ascension and back to non existence again. The Fool Card, numbered 0, is indicative of this eternal cycle.
