The Minor Cards
The Minor cards are very important. There are more of them than there are of any of the other kinds of cards in the deck, which just shows their importance. In most decks you can look at the pictures on them and that will tell you what they mean, if you forget. You need to be really skillful if you want to use the decks around the place that don't have pictures on the minor cards.
Some of the Minor cards are people cards or court cards, and all you see on them is a person. Some readers think that they represent people who look like the ones in the cards. That can't work if you are reading in Asia where everyone has black hair or in Africa where everyone has black skins as well, so I have made up my own meanings for them. I will not share my own meanings here because they are a secret and I do not want them all over the internet.
The whole thing about Tarot is that it is about secrets. Tarot readers have secret knowledge that other people don't have. And we use that secret knowledge to find out other people's hidden secrets every single day. I don't want to tell you my court card secrets.
Basically, the cards run from Ace to Ten just like playing cards and have kings and queens, but Tarot has split the jacks up into knights and pages. The suits are named differently, too, hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds are pentacles, cups, swords and wands.
Each and every card has its own meanings which you have to learn.
Folks, as near as I can figure, that's 273 words. I had a hysterically funny time writing it. I deserve Tarot certification for that!
