Chapter 1.0 - Major Arcana

🔮The 78 cards of the Tarot Deck🔮

🌟Chapter 1.0 - the Major Arcana🌟

The Tarot card deck consists of 78 cards, each with its own divination meaning: 22 in the Major Arcana and 56 in the Minor Arcana. The cards date back to the Renaissance, also the use of them for divination. They do, of course, share their origin with playing cards.

The Major Arcana cards are the trumps, which are unsuited. Each card represents a major force to be taken quite seriously when appearing in divination.

🌛The 22 Major Arcana Cards🌜

Here are all the 22 Major Arcana cards of the Tarot deck:

Picture 1.0: the Major Acana

#0 - The Fool 

➽ Upright: innocence, new beginnings, free spirit

➽ Reversed: recklessness, taken advantage of, inconsideration

#1 - The Magician 

➽ Upright: willpower, desire, creation, manifestation

➽ Reversed: trickery, illusions, out of touch  

#2 - The High Priestess

➽ Upright: intuitive, unconscious, inner voice 

➽ Reversed: lack of center, lost inner voice, repressed feelings

#3 - The Empress 

➽ Upright: motherhood, fertility, nature

➽ Reversed: dependence, smothering, emptiness, nosiness

 

#4 - The Emperor

➽ Upright: authority, structure, control, fatherhood
➽ Reversed: tyranny, rigidity, coldness 

#5 - The Hierophant

➽ Upright: tradition, conformity, morality, ethics

➽ Reversed: rebellion, subversiveness, new approaches

 

 

#6 - The Lovers

➽ Upright: partnerships, duality, union

➽ Reversed: loss of balance, one-sidedness, disharmony

#7 - The Chariot

➽ Upright:  direction, control, willpower 

➽ Reversed: lack of control, lack of direction, aggression

#8 - Strength

➽ Upright: inner strength, bravery, compassion, focus
➽ Reversed: self doubt, weakness, insecurity

 

#9 - The Hermit 

➽ Upright: contemplation, search for truth, inner guidance 

➽ Reversed: loneliness, isolation, lost your way

#10 - Wheel of Fortune

➽ Upright: change, cycles, inevitable fate
➽ Reversed: no control, clinging to control, bad luck

#11 - Justice

➽ Upright: cause and effect, clarity, truth
➽ Reversed: dishonesty, unaccountability, unfairness

#12 - The Hanged Man 

➽ Upright: sacrifice, release, martyrdom
➽ Reversed: stalling, needless sacrifice, fear of sacrifice

#13 - Death

➽ Upright: end of cycle, beginnings, change, metamorphosis
➽ Reversed: holding on, stagnation, decay 

 

 

#14 - Temperance

➽ Upright: middle path, patience, finding meaning
➽ Reversed: extremes, excess, lack of balance

#15 - The Devil

➽ Upright: addiction, materialism, playfulness
➽ Reversed: freedom, release, restoring control 

#16 - The Tower

➽ Upright: sudden upheaval, broken pride, disaster
➽ Reversed: disaster avoided, delayed disaster, fear of suffering

 

 #17 - The Star

➽ Upright: hope, faith, rejuvenation
➽ Reversed: faithlessness, discouragement, insecurity 

#18 - The Moon

➽ Upright: unconscious, illusions, intuition 

➽ Reversed: confusion, fear, misinterpretation 

#19 - The Sun

➽ Upright: joy, success, celebration, positivity
➽ Reversed: negativity, depression, sadness

 

#20 - Judgment

➽ Upright: reflection, reckoning, awakening
➽ Reversed: lack of self awareness, doubt, self loathing

#21 - The World

➽ Upright: fulfillment, harmony, completion
➽ Reversed: incompletion, no closure