21/01/2026
Beyond the well-known correspondence between suits and elements ✨
CUPS | Water 💧
WANDS | Fire 🔥
SWORDS | Air 🌬️
PENTACLES | Earth 🌱
there are other ways to approach the Minor Arcana.
Here are 2 practical keys to work with the Minors in a direct, intuitive way 🔑
Key 1 · The Object’s Function
Before symbolism, ask a simple question:
What does this object do in real life?
Cups 🍸
Containers, usually for liquid. They are brought close to the body, creating intimate and personal encounters — from sharing a drink to participating in a ritual or toast.
In readings, Cups often point to emotional exchange, sensitivity, and vulnerability.
Wands
Sticks or branches that can support, strike, point the way, or carry fire.
They activate and mobilize. Wands speak of energy, initiative, creative drive, and momentum — the force that sets things in motion.
Swords 🗡️
They cut, separate, and define limits.
By creating distance, they bring clarity.
In readings, Swords highlight discernment, language, ideas, and mental patterns — inherited or self-made.
Coins 🪙
Units of exchange that circulate between people and systems. They speak of value, work, routines, resources, and the material conditions that support life.
Key 2 · Numerology
• Polarity / Direction
Odd numbers → outward, active processes
Even numbers → inward, receptive processes
• Stage / Process
Aces (1) → seeds, beginnings, pure potential
4–7 → structure, testing, stabilization
Tens (10) → culmination, saturation
• Intensity / Tempo
Low numbers → fast, nimble
High numbers → slow, heavy, complex
Tip 💡
Wands and Swords tend to move faster;
Cups and Pentacles usually unfold more slowly.
The suit also shapes the tempo.
✨ Want to learn Tarot beyond memorization?
I’m opening two workshops at starting in February: Minor Arcana & Court Cards, last 6 spots!
and in March: Major Arcana
We’ll work with multiple decks:
Marseille, Rider–Waite–Smith, The Wild Unknown, Clarity & Trinum Tarot 🃏
📩 Comment MINORS or MAJORS and I’ll send you all the details.
— Felicitas ·
TRINUM
