tarot

An image featuring a tarot card, or drawn to look like a tarot card.

Tarot is a set of cards originally designed to be used as playing cards, but which was later adopted as a means of divination by occultists and fortune tellers. A typical tarot deck consists of 78 cards, divided into two groups: the Minor Arcana and the Major Arcana.

The Minor Arcana consists of 56 cards divided into four suits: swords, wands (batons), cups, and pentacles (coins). Each suit has ten numbered cards and four court cards: Kings, Queens, Knights, and Pages.

The Major Arcana, or trump cards, consists of 22 cards without suits:

• 0. The Fool (tarot)†
• 1. The Magician (tarot)
• 2. The High Priestess (tarot)
• 3. The Empress (tarot)
• 4. The Emperor (tarot)
• 5. The Hierophant (tarot)
• 6. The Lovers (tarot)
• 7. The Chariot (tarot)
• 8. Strength (tarot) or Justice (tarot)‡
• 9. The Hermit (tarot)
• 10. Wheel of Fortune (tarot)
• 11. Justice (tarot) or Strength (tarot)‡
• 12. The Hanged Man (tarot)
• 13. Death (tarot)
• 14. Temperance (tarot)
• 15. The Devil (tarot)
• 16. The Tower (tarot)
• 17. The Star (tarot)
• 18. The Moon (tarot)
• 19. The Sun (tarot)
• 20. Judgement (tarot)
• 21. The World (tarot)

† The Fool is unnumbered and not considered a trump card in traditional decks. It may be numbered 0 or 22 in decks designed for fortune-telling.
‡ In traditional decks, Justice is the 8th card and Strength is the 11th card. Starting in the early 20th century, they swapped positions in many fortune-telling decks.

Examples

• !post #6876218: Tarot card
• !post #9102612: Tarot (medium)

See also

• fortune teller
• tarot (medium)
• tarot card
• tarot set
• card (medium)
• Tag group:Cards

External links

• Wikipedia: Tarot