Minor Arcana/Playing Card Correspondences

Playing Cards Suit Properties Element Season

Clubs Wands/Spears/Rods Work and spiritual issues, ideas, creativity, growth Fire Spring

Hearts Cups/Chalices Emotions, desire, affairs of the heart, the inner self Water Summer

Diamonds Pentacles/Shields/Disks Money, manifestation, prosperity, health, property Earth Autumn

Spades Swords The intellect, left brain thinking, strife, upcoming ideas Air Winter

Numerology is basic to Tarot symbolism to provide understanding of the properties and vibrations of the cards. The Minor Arcana cards can all be read, aside from their imagery, in accordance with their number and suit vibrations listed below.

Number Properties

1 or Ace Seeds, beginnings, action, will, new ideas, creative power, the root force, potential, first causes, primary impulses, raw energy.

2 Partnerships, relationships, polarities, balancing, duality, formation, choices, patience, stillness, positive and negative.

3 Synthesis, expansion, creativity, abundance, collaboration, friendships, artistic expression, refining plans, having fun, preparing to take action.

4 Foundations, discipline, work, order, stability, solidity, tangible achievement, real estate, earth, practical attainment.

5 New cycle, change, progress, shifts, adjustment, fine tuning, instability, challenges, letting go, versatility, freedom, courage.

6 Balance, health, love, beauty, harmony, contentment, relaxation, paradise, satisfaction,marriage, family, sympathy, a choice.

7 Spirituality, wisdom, perfect order, luck, magic, multiple options, surveying the scenery.

8 Manifesting, will, success, matters relating to karma, regeneration, rebirth, reevaluating, putting things in order, setting priorities.

9 Compassion, pause, integration, flexibility, fulfillment, attainment.

10 Transition, renewal, ready for a new cycle, completion, wholeness, mastery, overabundance.

Court Cards

Properties - Court card can indicate people, personalities, messages, situations, ideas and quickly approaching events. Make sure to take into account the type of reading being completed, the question, suit and surrounding cards.

Card Properties

King Closure, completion, finality. Mature, usually wise men (or women) who know what they can and cannot accomplish.

Queen Female energy or influence, receptive qualities. Completion of a relationship, project, job, pregnancy. Mature women (or men) who understand who and what they are about emotionally and spiritually.

Knight* Long standing situation is about to change, travel, incoming ideas. Young man or woman impacting or entering your life.

Page** Messages, communications, beginnings of the cirumstances related to the properties of their suit. Children or adolescents in or entering your life.

* Corresponds to the Jack ( J )
** No correspondance

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Playing Cards	Suit	Properties	Element	Season
Clubs	Wands/Spears/Rods	Work and spiritual issues, ideas, creativity, growth	Fire	Spring
Hearts	Cups/Chalices	Emotions, desire, affairs of the heart, the inner self	Water	Summer
Diamonds	Pentacles/Shields/Disks	Money, manifestation, prosperity, health, property	Earth	Autumn
Spades	Swords	The intellect, left brain thinking, strife, upcoming ideas	Air	Winter

Number	Properties
1 or Ace	Seeds, beginnings, action, will, new ideas, creative power, the root force, potential, first causes, primary impulses, raw energy.
2	Partnerships, relationships, polarities, balancing, duality, formation, choices, patience, stillness, positive and negative.
3	Synthesis, expansion, creativity, abundance, collaboration, friendships, artistic expression, refining plans, having fun, preparing to take action.
4	Foundations, discipline, work, order, stability, solidity, tangible achievement, real estate, earth, practical attainment.
5	New cycle, change, progress, shifts, adjustment, fine tuning, instability, challenges, letting go, versatility, freedom, courage.
6	Balance, health, love, beauty, harmony, contentment, relaxation, paradise, satisfaction,marriage, family, sympathy, a choice.
7	Spirituality, wisdom, perfect order, luck, magic, multiple options, surveying the scenery.
8	Manifesting, will, success, matters relating to karma, regeneration, rebirth, reevaluating, putting things in order, setting priorities.
9	Compassion, pause, integration, flexibility, fulfillment, attainment.
10	Transition, renewal, ready for a new cycle, completion, wholeness, mastery, overabundance.

Card	Properties
King	Closure, completion, finality. Mature, usually wise men (or women) who know what they can and cannot accomplish.
Queen	Female energy or influence, receptive qualities. Completion of a relationship, project, job, pregnancy. Mature women (or men) who understand who and what they are about emotionally and spiritually.
Knight*	Long standing situation is about to change, travel, incoming ideas. Young man or woman impacting or entering your life.
Page**	Messages, communications, beginnings of the cirumstances related to the properties of their suit. Children or adolescents in or entering your life.