Visiting friends, want to do a tarot reading, and left your cards at home? Use a deck of playing cards! These are such a common household item and it’s very easy to correlate the meanings with what you already know about tarot cards. Some people develop new meanings for the playing cards, but I like to keep things easy. If you are new to tarot and want to delve into them, check out my e-course on Psychic Tarot Reading.
Here are how the suits in tarot and playing cards correlate:
- Cups = Hearts
- Coins/Pentacles = Diamonds
- Swords = Spades
- Wands/Staves = Clubs
- Ace through 10 = Same
- Pages/Knights = Jack (you choose which one you want it to represent)
- Queens and Kings = Same
- Joker = optional Fool card
There is obviously no major arcana. It is handy to have memorized the general meaning of the tarot cards in order to read playing cards. Without it, you’re just looking at a bunch of numbers. This is a great way to create a game of seeing if you remember the definitions of the tarot cards by memory. You can go through the entire deck, quizzing yourself.
Have fun!
