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• Minor Arcana — King of Swords card from a Minor Arcana deck The Minor Arcana (or Lesser Arcana) of occult or divinatory tarot refers to the portion of a Tarot deck that consists of 56 cards. The Minor Arcana are roughly similar to the cards found in a common… …   Wikipedia

• arcana — [α: keɪnə] plural noun [treated as sing. or plural] (sing. arcanum) 1》 secrets; mysteries. 2》 either of the two groups of cards in a tarot pack: the twenty two trumps (the major arcana) and the fifty six suit cards (the minor arcana). Origin C16 …   English new terms dictionary

• Arcana Jayne — Infobox webcomic| title = Arcana Jayne caption = author = Lisa Jonté url = http://www.girlamatic.com/series.php?name=arcanajayne status = Weekly began = ended = genre = Fantasy ratings = Arcana Jayne is a webcomic by Girlamatic editor and former… …   Wikipedia

• Mystic Arcana — Cover of Mystic Arcana: Sister Grimm 1 (Jan 2008).Art by Marko Djurdjevic. Publisher Marvel Comics …   Wikipedia

• Major Arcana — The Major Arcana or trumps are a suit of twenty two cards in the tarot deck. They serve as a permanent trump suit in games played with the tarot deck, and are distinguished from the four standard suits collectively known as the Minor Arcana. The… …   Wikipedia

• Divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot — This article is about the use of tarot cards for divinatory and esoteric/occult purposes. For other uses, see Tarot (disambiguation). Tarot reading revolves around the belief that the cards can be used to gain insight into the past, current and… …   Wikipedia

• Tarot — The tarot (also known as tarocchi, tarock or similar names) is typically a set of seventy eight cards, comprised of twenty one trump cards, one Fool, and four suits of fourteen cards each ten pip and four face cards (one more face card per suit… …   Wikipedia

• Tarot of Marseilles — Tarot de Marseilles The Hermit or L Hermite Major Arcana from the early 18th century Tarot of Jean Dodal Style of Card : Tarot Origin: Marseille Designer: Anonymous; traditional Purpose: Recreation and Divination Structure: 22 Trumps or …   Wikipedia

• tarot — /tar oh, ta roh /, n. any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortunetelling and as trump cards in tarok. [1590 1600; back formation from taros (pl.) < MF < It tarocchi, pl. of tarocco] * * * Sets of cards… …   Universalium

• Motherpeace Tarot — The Motherpeace Tarot is a feminist inspired deck of tarot cards, in which most of the figures are female. It was created in the late 1970s by two women from Berkeley, California, Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble. The idea for the deck came to them in …   Wikipedia