The Minor Arcana

If the Major Arcana names the big chapters of a life, the Minor Arcana names the days inside them. Four suits, fourteen cards each — pip cards Ace through Ten, plus the four courts.

Each suit speaks to a different mode of being. Wands are fire (will, vocation), Cups are water (feeling, relationship), Swords are air (mind, conflict), and Pentacles are earth (body, craft, money). When a Minor appears in a reading, it answers in the texture of the everyday — concrete, situational, often actionable.