Minor Arcana Correspondences

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Minor Arcana Correspondences teaches core tarot suit information in colour coded & easy to read tables. It includes astrology, timing, numerology, counting values & yes no tarot answers.

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Minor Arcana Correspondences

In Major Arcana Correspondences, I talked about the benefits of seeing tarot cards grouped together. This is also true of the minor arcana correspondences. The following tables clearly show sub-groupings, patterns and helpfully raises questions that you will seek the answers for. This self-directed learning is what really helps embed the information in your mind and becomes extremely valuable during live tarot readings, when your powers of recall are tested. Bookmark this page, and the Major Arcana Correspondences page for when you need to access vital information quickly, such as timing and astrology, or for answering a direct yes no question.

As a beginner, learning tarot card meanings can seem daunting but with the help of these tables, you can strip out the thoughts and opinions of tarot authors from websites and books, myself included, and focus on the core information. This way you can build your own tarot vocabulary and lexicon of personal meanings, unique to you.

Some of the information may not make sense to you initially. I generally follow the Golden Dawn correspondences for timing, and these are presented below. Two things that may stand out to you are likely to be the matching timing of the Aces and Pages, and the elemental associations of the court cards. For clarity, I have written about this in Timing Events Using Tarot and Astrology.

Timing Using the Aces and Pages

In the Golden Dawn system, the aces are the root element of their suit and the Page is the vehicle in which the ace manifests. They really rule a specific area and so timing with either can be ignored. Sometimes the gods, or the Fates, or indeed the Universe does not deem it important for us to know the timing of an event so it makes sense that sometimes it is wise to not seek definitive timing. That said, I have listed the astrological signs associated with the quadrants of the areas that the aces and pages rule together. You can derive timing from these zodiac signs if you wish but equally ignore it. Be mindful that as a quadrant, the time period for each ace or page is three months and so other cards may be required to narrow down the timing of an event.

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The Elemental Association of the Court Cards

Using Qabbalah and the Tree of Life, the Golden Dawn determined very specific elemental associations for the tarot court cards. This is formed through the Tetragrammaton, but is not necessary to further into this system here. A very brief explanation of how the Page of Wands elementally is called earth of fire, or the Queen of Pentacles is called water of earth is to see that that each rank has its own elemental association.

• Pages are earth
• Knights are air
• Queens are water
• Kings are fire

Each element has its own meaning here and reinforces the rank of the the court card. You can see the swift movement of air and the mobility of the knights, the emotional and loving nature of the queens, the dynamism of the kings and the grounded and lower rank of the pages.

Like Major Arcana Correspondences, each table is colour coded to match the element of its suit. This is to help you navigate the page easily and to provide clarity while you are scrolling.

Tarot Suit of Wands Correspondences

Tarot Suit of Cups Correspondences

Tarot Suit of Swords Correspondences

Tarot Suit of Pentacles Correspondences

Tarot Card Meanings Supporting Posts

Header image from the Golden Dawn Magical Tarot by Chic Cicero and Sandra-Tabatha Cicero, published by Llewellyn 2008