What is the structure of a tarot deck?
The Tarot is a deck that consists of major and minor arcana. Minor Arcana Traditionally the minor arcana are like regular playing cards with the addition of an extra face card between the 10s and Jacks. The 4 suits of the minors; wands, cups, swords, and pentacles correspond to the regular playing cards’ clubs, hearts, spades, and diamonds. The face or court cards have taken many names over the many incarnations of the tarot, but there are always 4 court cards for each suit. The court cards fill the basic roles of King, Queen, Knight, and Knave (or Father, Mother, Son, and Daughter). The number cards 1-10 of the minor arcana are traditionally called pip cards. Pips are like playing cards, basically just pictures of repeating suit icons. In the Rider-Waite deck, A.E. Waite decided to do away with the pips in favor of scenarios of events. This made learning to read much easier for beginners, and this idea was widely adapted due to the overwhelming popularity of the Rider-Waite deck. Occu
