The Major Arcana Tarot Cards

The Major Arcana:

The Major Arcana Tarot Cards are numbered 0-21, each card telling a story or conveying a message. Major Arcana cards represent more significant events or decisions, practically, emotionally and spiritually in a reading, whilst the Minor Arcana represent the more mundane, everyday aspects or events in a reading.

There is a specific order for the Major Arcana , but some decks deviate from this, for example, the Rider-Waite deck has the Strength card coming before the Justice card, and hence is numbered differently from the list below.

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0 – The Fool – Air, Uranus

1 – The Magician- Mercury

2 – The High Priestess The Moon
3 – The Empress - Venus
4 – The Emperor - Aries
5 – The Hierophant - Taurus
6 – The Lovers - Gemini
7 – The Chariot - Cancer
8 – Justice – Libra (in the Rider-Waite deck 8 would be Strength)
9 – The Hermit - Virgo
10 – The Wheel of Fortune - Jupiter
11 – Strength – Leo (in the Rider-Waite deck 11 would be Justice)
12 – The Hanged Man – Water, Neptune
13 – Death - Scorpio
14 – Temperance - Sagittarius
15 – The Devil - Capricorn
16 – The Tower- Mars
17 – The Star - Aquarius
18 – The Moon - Pisces
19 – The Sun - Sun
20 – Judgement – Fire, Pluto

21 – The World Saturn

The Major Arcana naturally fall into two groups, with the Wheel of Fortune significantly at the mid point - this turning point between one half of life and the other is of critical importance