Arcani minori

This is the list of cards corresponding to the minor arcana of cups.

The rounded Cups in formal analogy with the vase and hence with the matrix and therefore the female, it represents the water element that they are intended to contain. Tradition symbolically links them to the second He of the Hebrew divine name, to the clergy, artists and intellectuals, that is, to all those who attribute the greatest value to faith, thought, and feeling.

The Cups correspond to the warm, rainy spring, to the crystal ball, the emblem of clairvoyance, and to the esoteric imperative of knowledge. They signal affections, passions, joys, pleasures, fertility, and memories.

Astrological relationships: Moon. Sign of Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.

This is the list of cards corresponding to the minor arcana of pentacles (or coins).

Round and therefore feminine, thanks also to the relationship with the earth element that they symbolize and in whose veins, in the form of metal, they originate, Coins represent the class of merchants, landowners, that is, those who possess or circulate money .

They correspond to the Hebrew letter vau, to autumn, to the pentagram that the operator of the arcane holds in his hands and with which he delimits the magic circle, to the esoteric imperative of silence, in analogy with the earth, closed and mute. They indicate money, business, wealth, concrete things: matter, resistance, research.

Astrological relationships: Saturn. Sign of Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.

This is the list of cards corresponding to the minor arcana of swords.

Elongated, phallic, masculine shape also for the Swords, in analogy with the air element, also masculine, to which they belong and which they vigorously cleave.

Related to the Hebrew letter he, to the military class of defenders, to winter, sharp and cold as metal, to the magi-sta's sword that protects and dissolves, to the esoteric imperative to dare, they represent everything man fears: the struggle, the difficulties, the illness, the misfortunes, the accidents accompanied however by the gifts of communication, independence and personal freedom.

Astrological relationships: Mercury. Zodiac sign of Gemini, Libra and Aquarius.

This is the list of cards corresponding to the minor arcana of wands.

Of an elongated and therefore essentially phallic shape, the wands immediately denounce their virile, masculine symbolism and the element to which they relate, fire, which originates from wood.

Traditionally connected to the Hebrew letter jod, the first of the name of God, they correspond to summer, hot and lively, to the social class of actively engaged workers, to the magic wand, emblem of operative intervention on reality, to the esoteric imperative of will. They signal the beginning, the audacity, the initiative, the action, the transformation, the dynamism and also energy, creativity, progress, correlation to the professional field, to travels, to inventions.

Astrological relationships: Sun and Mars. Sign of Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.