Simple tarot spreads can be extremely useful and should be considered as a means of enlightenment

Tarot reading can often seem rather overwhelming because of the complex nature of this kind of divination.  The spread itself can involve relationships between cards that appear in each spot and all of this can make the task of unravelling the meaning quite difficult for those who have not been using tarot for very long or for those who simply do not have the spiritual nature that is sometimes needed to do a regular reading.

Minor arcanum does not mean minor importance to your personal tarot reading.

The tarot deck of cards includes fifty six cards comprising the minor arcana.  These cards are separated into four suits much like a deck of playing cards.  The suits used in the tarot deck are swords, cups, wands and pentacles. 

The meanings of the minor arcana are not necessarily easy to decipher.  Each card that is selected when you have your tarot reading done has a significant meaning to the entire reading.   Using the meaning of each suit and each card number as well as the position in which the card appears in the reading means that the same card can mean something quite different from one reading to another.

Maybe no divination practice is more widely done then tarot cards. Almost every culture around the world from China to Russia to Europe to the United States has their own version of tarot. This has led to several inconsistencies over the years between decks. Some of the differences are small, others are quite big. Let’s take a look at seven common differences between decks as they vary from culture to culture
 

·        Changes in suits – For most basic tarot decks, there is a major arcana and a minor arcana. The minor arcana is made up of four different suits. In most decks, those four suits are wands, cups, swords and coins. But in some decks, the suits vary. Wands have been replaced with shorter, thicker batons, and in some decks, coins have been replaced altogether with pentacles. With different suits come different interpretations. Most readers use multiple decks depending on their mood that day and will interpret pentacles differently then they would coins, even though the suits are replaced for each other. It is unknown if the overall impact of having pentacles over coins or batons over wands chances the spirit of the deck, but some readers are very loyal to one or the other.