Minor Arcana | Tarot Cards Video Lecture | Tarot Reading: Read Tarot Cards to know all the Answers - Professional Skills

hello I'm Ellen Goldberg and I welcome
you to this taro moment from the school
of Oracle's this segment is on an
introduction to the Minor Arcana as I
have mentioned the Tarot is divided into
two basic groups the 22 cards of the
Major Arcana
which portrayed the major arc types of
the laws of the universe and
personalities and spiritual forces and
the Minor Arcana and that's a greater
group 56 cards 56 cards subdivided into
four suits the wands the cups the swords
and the Pentacles and we'll be doing a
segment particularly on the four suits
so take a look for that one but the
Minor Arcana sometimes people think that
it is lesser than the Major Arcana just
because it has the prefix or the title
minor to me that's like saying the
subconscious is lesser than the
conscious mind just because it has the
beginning of sub it's not true the Minor
Arcana are also art types they're
archetype of situations and people each
of the four suits of the Minor Arcana
has 14 cards in it ten of them you know
from regular playing cards
they're the ace through tens we've seen
them we've played with them all our
lives we even know the other group that
maybe not all of them each suit not only
has an ace 210 often called the PIP
cards VIP but there are four court cards
people there's ah pages there are queens
there are kings and there are knights on
horseback I don't think I found oh
here's a knight Knight of cups
these people are the people that you
will meet in your life and that they
have personalities that you will
recognize the Minor Arcana we might say
is a great panorama of life because they
represent events there will be pictures
on these cards which is one of the
reasons I love the rider-waite deck so
much because every card has a picture
and a title that is descriptive of the
card the work that we're going to do
with the Minor comes really from the
order of the Golden Dawn as we make this
video I am approaching my 70th year and
I started to study the cards when I was
29 and somewhere in my 30s I spent four
years at a Kabbalistic mystery school
based on Tarot and it was also based on
the work of the order of the Golden Dawn
which is how I come to have the
associations that I do with the cards
every card in the Minor Arcana not only
has a title which we call a Lord name
it's called a Lord name and not just a
name to show that it is a big
constellation of energy but it also has
an astrological attribution a planet
working within a sign we don't have time
for the more complex a segment it would
take to show how they got their
attributions but there is rhyme and
reason to it it's not arbitrary at all
the Minor Arcana in my estimation are
the Major Arcana brought down to earth
they are a panorama of life and all the
people and situations that you're going
to encounter in your life's journey
thank you for being with me v for now