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As mentioned in the post on Major Arcana i Tarot Marsiglia They are composed of 78 map: 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana. The word comes from the Latin Arcano mysterious and means secret, mystery, occult, mysterious. The Tarot, divided into Major and Minor Arcana, show a sense not explicit that goes out slowly.
The Minor Arcana allow us to observe and examine everyday aspects of life: material, Mental, emotional; the most personal and material aspects.
They comprise four seeds: Sticks, Spade, Cups and Coins. Each suit has 10 Numerical cards, from Ace (1) al 10, more 4 figure o “Triumphs” represented by characters: Paggio, Regina, King and Knight. There is a similarity with poker cards which, however, lacks the Knight and in addition have the Jolly would the Major Arcana, The crazy. Hence the passage from the earthly aspects of life represented precisely by the Minor Arcana and “raising” towards the spiritual level of the Major Arcana from the Knight a The crazy.
Each Children It has its own field of action.
I Sticks rappresentan
or creativity, wishes, sex life, the job, Fire energy – as similarity Astrological.
The Spade: thoughts, intellectual life, the projects and the air, astrologically speaking.
The Cups They are the emotional life, the feelings, the heart, water.
I Coins represent the material life, body, needs, la terra, money.
The Pathway described the use of the Minor Arcana then shows the stage in which there is located at the moment of extraction of the cards in regard to the aspects described above for each seed in relation to the number or the shape of the extracted paper. There are correspondences between the minor and major arcana, for example, the Ace corresponds to The magician it's at The force.
They are also of “support” e specify further the scope of the Major Arcana indicate more precisely the “sector” of influenza.
The next post will be on The crazy, the first Major Arcana.
Good all things to all.