An image featuring a tarot card, or drawn to look like a tarot card.
Tarot is a set of cards originally designed to be used as playing cards, but which was later adopted as a means of divination by occultists and fortune tellers. A typical tarot deck consists of 78 cards, divided into two groups: the Minor Arcana and the Major Arcana.
The Minor Arcana consists of 56 cards divided into four suits: swords, wands (batons), cups, and pentacles (coins). Each suit has ten numbered cards and four court cards: Kings, Queens, Knights, and Pages.
The Major Arcana, or trump cards, consists of 22 cards without suits:
† The Fool is unnumbered and not considered a trump card in traditional decks. It may be numbered 0 or 22 in decks designed for fortune-telling. ‡ In traditional decks, Justice is the 8th card and Strength is the 11th card. Starting in the early 20th century, they swapped positions in many fortune-telling decks.
