Tarot Cards - General Questions

Front 1

How many cards are in a Deck of Tarot Cards

Back 1

78 cards

Front 2

How many cards are in the minor arcana

Back 2

56

Front 3

In the Minor Arcana, how many cards correspond to a regular deck of playing cards

Back 3

52 cards. There are four extra cards and the extra cards are the pages

Front 4

Court cards consist of what and what do they represent

Back 4

The court cards are the pages, knights, queens, and kings and represent people

Front 5

The cards numbered 2 - 10 are called _____ ______ and represent _____ or ______.

Back 5

small cards and represent situations or events

Front 6

What are the four suits of the Minor Arcana?

Back 6

Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles

Front 7

Each suit represents four different things. They are:

Back 7

1. Fire, Water, Air, Earth
2. An aspect of our daily life
3. One of the four letters of the Tetragrammaton (http://www.eliyah.com/tetragrm.html)
4. Three of the twelve signs of the zodiac

Front 8

List the four differentTetragrammatons and their meanings

Back 8

1. Yod = primal energy
2. Heh = Emergence of energy into form
3. Vau = Stabilization of form
4. Heh final = completion of energy into form

Front 9

Pages, knights, queens and kings correspond to....

Back 9

Pages = children or virgins
Knights = Young men under age 30
Queens = Married or sexually mature women
Kings = Mature men

Front 10

Each suit represents...

Back 10

Wands = fire, (Leo, Aries, Sagittarius), Career, Yod [primal energy]

Cups = Water, (Pisces, cancer, scorpio), Emotion, Heh

Swords = Air, (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius), mental, Vau

Pentacles = Earth, (Taurus, Capricorn, Virgo), Money and material, Heh Final

Front 11

Dates of Capricorn

Back 11

12/22 - 1/19

Front 12

Aquarius dates =

Back 12

1/20 - 2/18

Front 13

Aries

Back 13

3/21 - 4/19

Front 14

Taurus

Back 14

4/20 - 5/20

Front 15

Gemini

Back 15

5/21 - 6/20

Front 16

Cancer

Back 16

6/21 - 7/22

Front 17

Leo

Back 17

7/23 - 8/22

Front 18

Virgo

Back 18

8/23 - 9/22

Front 19

Libra

Back 19

9/23 - 10/22

Front 20

Scorpio

Back 20

10/23 - 11/21

Front 21

Sagittarius

Back 21

11/22 - 12/21