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Five of Cups from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Five of Cups is a Minor Arcana tarot card.. Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. [1] In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, tarot cards came to be utilized primarily for divinatory purposes.
Page of Cups from the Rider–Waite tarot deck. The Page of Cups (or jack or knave of cups or goblets or vessels) is a card used in Latin-suited playing cards which include tarot decks. It is part of what tarot card readers call the "Minor Arcana" Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play tarot card games. [1]
The Major Arcana cards redesigned by Roberto Viesi. The Major Arcana are the named cards in a cartomantic tarot pack. There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (or 1 to 21, with the Fool being left unnumbered).
In the Rider-Waite Tarot, the card portrays a young man and a woman each bearing a cup, as if presenting it to one another, while above is the Caduceus of Hermes. Three of Cups: This card typically indicates a time of merriment and celebration. The Rider-Waite Tarot depicts three Graces dancing, each maiden bearing a cup.
Always included in tarot decks is one card, the Fool or Excuse, which may be part of the trump suit depending on the game or region. These cards do not have pips or face cards like the other suits. Most tarot decks used for games come with French suits but Italian suits are still used in Piedmont, Bologna, and pockets of Switzerland.
Thus the suit of cups ranks: R C S (9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. In Italy the suit is known as coppe and the corresponding court cards are the re, cavallo and fante. Either 40 or 52-card packs are used. In the shorter packs, the tens, nines and eights are removed. Card ranking is thus: R C F (10 9 8) 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. [1]
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The King of Swords card from the Rider–Waite tarot. The Minor Arcana, sometimes known as the Lesser Arcana, are the suit cards in a cartomantic tarot deck.. Ordinary tarot cards first appeared in northern Italy in the 1440s and were designed for tarot card games. [1]