How Taro cards are organized. There are no official Tarot decks but they all mostly follow the same standard. There are 78 cards in total in the deck, the major arcana which is 22 cards and the minor arcana, which is 56 cards split into four suits. This is very like playing cards and you could even use playing cards to do tarot readings if you want to, but I enjoy the artwork that goes along with tarot cards. The 22 Major Arcana cards portray the souls journey through life with all the challenges and lessons we learn along the way. It's really the Fool's Journey, which is the first card in the major arcana.

I like to think of these cards as karma cards. They're like rites of passage lessons in life that you were meant to learn. Everyone goes through these growth phases in life and that is what the Major Arcana cards represent. The 56 Minor Arcana cards are split into four suits, cups, swords, wands, and Pentacles these cards represent the daily aspects of life in different ways. cups represent emotions, swords are thought ones are action and Pentacles are about failures and rewards and can often refer to money. We will get further into this in the course.

Each suit has four court cards the king, queen, knight, and Paige these cards can represent people when they come up in a reading the gender doesn't need to be an issue because gender is a spectrum we can all be in touch with a masculine side or a feminine side or anywhere in between these cards can come up to describe the questioner or someone else in the questioners life. Each card has a basic meaning to it, but when applied to a person's life, it could mean several different things. The key is to get to know your cards, use them often like anything with practice, you will become more comfortable and confident