Minor Arcana Tarot Card Meanings

The Minor Arcana is a group of 56 cards divided into four suits. It commonly describes daily experiences, reactions, relationships, work, conflict, resources, and practical decisions.

The four suits are Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. They are commonly associated with fire, water, air, and earth.

Each suit has 14 cards: Ace through Ten, followed by Page, Knight, Queen, and King.

The suit provides the life area, while the number describes a developmental stage such as beginning, partnership, growth, stability, disruption, adjustment, assessment, movement, culmination, or completion.

Court cards can describe people, roles, maturity levels, communication styles, or ways of handling a suit’s energy.

No. They may describe ordinary circumstances, but those circumstances often reveal the exact behavior, conversation, decision, or resource that needs attention.

A reversal may show the suit energy being blocked, delayed, overused, misdirected, internalized, avoided, or corrected.

Begin with the suit’s domain, add the number’s stage, then describe the visible action and connect it to the actual question.