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Minor Arcana Tarot Cards
The Minor Arcana of the Tarot deck consist of 56 cards, which are closely related to the deck of 52 playing cards used in most modern card games. It comprises four suits, derived from the older Latin playing card suits most commonly named Wands or Batons, Cups, Swords, and Coins (also called Pentacles or Disks), although there is a wide variety of different names and suit symbols used in different decks. The name Minor Arcana is used only in esoteric practice; Game players using Tarot decks for playing call them suit cards and sometimes use the more modern hearts, spades, diamonds, and clubs suit system.
| Tarot suit | Playing-card suit | Element | Class | Faculty |
| Wands, Staves, Rods or Batons | Clubs | Fire | Peasantry | Creativity and Energy |
| Pentacles or Coins | Diamonds | Earth | Merchants | Material body or possessions |
| Cups or Chalices | Hearts | Water | Clergy | Emotions and Love |
| Swords | Spades | Air | Nobility and Military | Reason and Will |
Each suit has 14 cards, being Ace (One), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Page, Knight, Queen, King. These last four are called the court cards, and often have different names in different decks.
Some decks reverse the correspondence of Swords to Air and Wands to Fire and, instead, have Swords representative of Fire and Wands of Air.
Cards by Suits
Cups