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Although there's a steadily increasing number of prophetic cards on the market, genuine Tarot comprises a deck of seventy-eight cards. Many allege that the Tarot features three divisions: Minor Arcana (secrets), Major Arcana and The Fool. Other people, and I'm among them, include The Fool (# 0) at the beginning of the Major Arcana.

There are twenty-two cards in the Major Arcana, from #0 The Fool, to #21, The World. Most significant, leastwise from my viewpoint, is the spiritual view of the Major Arcana. I will not get into that now, but to find more information, check out my pages on "Spiritual Tarot". Also, of course, the Major Arcana are employed in divination. We will likewise deal with that later.

The Minor Arcana (lesser secrets) has fifty-six cards and is much like a pack of today's playing cards. The "additional" four cards is found in the "court", or "picture" cards. Though today's playing cards feature three "face" cards; Jack, Queen, and King, Tarot holds a "Royal Court" of four cards; Page, Knight, Queen, and King. In both decks there are four suits and ten "spot" cards from Ace to Ten. The suits are different but rather similar. Broadly speaking, the Tarot suits are - Cups, Wands, Swords, and Pentacles, comparable to Hearts, Clubs, Spades and Diamonds, respectively. This information isn't "set in stone". There are virtually hundreds of Tarot decks available with fresh ones coming out day-by-day. A lot of the designers of new packs take a tremendous measure of liberty in assigning the suit names. But these are the traditional Tarot suits.

Twenty-two cards comprise the Major Arcana, from number zero, The Fool, to number twenty-one, The World. Most significant, at least from my viewpoint, is the spiritual aspect of the Major Arcana. I will not go into that now, but for information on that subject, see my pages on Spiritual Tarot. And, naturally, the majors are used in divination by many. Other people, especially in Europe, use only the Major Arcana for divination, since the minors are used in playing card games and are not considered spiritual enough for that. We’ll also consider that later.

There's some evidence that Tarot was originated, without the Major Arcana, as a card game for the well-to-do. Because the cards had to be individually painted (this was before the printing press) only the rich could afford to own them. There isn’t very much historic corroboration available, but it looks like the Major Arcana was added later on as "trumps".

Tarot mythology has it that the Major Arcana (Higher Secrets) were far more ancient in their origins. It is claimed by some that these twenty-two images were originally tapestries that hung on the walls of various ancient mystery schools and were utilized in the seekers’ initiation ceremonials. According to this story, the early church grew to be all-too-powerful and turned its wrath on many things it didn’t understand, including the ancient mystery schools.

The mystery principles, called the occult, (which merely means hidden) grew to be the church’s primary target and those involved with it were in constant danger of losing their lives. They resolved to conceal their secrets in the open by having their initiation tapestries painted on cards for the rich to gamble with. It was successful... Who would ever expect obscure teachings to be so visible? Evidently nobody... And they were able to carry on studying, teaching, and intercommunicating thanks to this simple ruse.

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