About the Minor Arcana

The Minor Arcana is formatted identically to standard playing cards, with the exception of one additional court card in each of the four suits. The modern playing card court sets are comprised of Kings, Queens and Jacks, whereas the tarot card suits include Kings, Queens, Knights and Pages. The Minor Arcana is, in fact, an older version of today’s playing card deck and was in popular use until the 1700s. At that time, the suit motifs were changed from Wands, Swords, Cups and Pentacles to Clubs, Spades, Hearts and Diamonds. The Knight cards were deleted entirely.
The Minor Arcana cards typically represent the mundane, day-to-day activities of people.