* Tarot reading: Wands or Swords in the Minor Arcana.

* Tarot reading: Wands or Swords in the Minor Arcana.

* Tarot reading: Cups in the Minor Arcana

* Tarot reading: Coins in the Minor Arcana

The Minor Arcana ( or Lesser Arcana ) are the 56 suit cards of the 78-card deck of tarot playing cards.

The Minor Arcana comprise four suits with 14 cards each.

Although there are variations, the Minor Arcana commonly employ the Italo-Spanish suits: Wands ( alternatively, batons, clubs, or staves ), cups, swords, and pentacles ( alternatively, coins, disks, or rings ).

Each Minor Arcana card in a suit is numbered one ( ace ) to ten, except for the court cards ( or courts )— page, knight, queen, and king — which are comparable to face cards.

Minor Arcana cards in contemporary tarot decks are usually illustrated — a convention popularized by the Rider-Waite tarot deck ca.

In divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot, the Minor Arcana are believed to represent relatively mundane features of life.

They serve as a permanent trump suit in games played with the Tarot deck, and are distinguished from the four standard suits collectively known as the Minor Arcana.

The terms " Major " and " Minor Arcana " are used in the occult and divinatory applications of the deck, and originate with Paul Christian.

The essentials are that the magician has set up a temporary table outdoors, to display items that represent the suits of the Minor Arcana: Cups, Coins, Swords ( as knives ).

* In the popular Indie Game The Binding of Isaac, all of the Major Arcana / Minor Arcana Tarot cards can be found and used during gameplay.

* In the popular Indie Game The Binding of Isaac, all of the Major Arcana / Minor Arcana Tarot cards can be found and used during gameplay.

She is the mistress of the Knights ( 12th cards of the Minor Arcana ), who as Grail Knights are in some sense searching for her, and, like their counterpart in the Major Arcana, the Hanged Man, may well die for her.

If the Empress is the Object of Desire, the Hanged Man ( or a Hanged Man substitute from the Minor Arcana ) is the one who desires.

In Roman historiography, there are various accounts of Amazon raids in Asia Minor.

It stands first in order among what are known as the twelve Minor Prophets.

The only clues for its possible existence are Persian inscriptions that refer to two places called " Saparda ": one area in Media and another in Asia Minor, debated to be Sardis.

Minor sets originate at the head of the set, starting with the topmost dancers as the 1's ( the active couple or actives ); the other couple are 2's ( or inactives ).

Minor violations such as offside ( a player from either side encroaching into scrimmage zone before the play starts ) are penalized five yards, more serious penalties ( such as holding ) are penalized 10 yards, and severe violations ( such as face-masking ) of the rules are typically penalized 15 yards.

Minor cases of ET can be treated with physical therapy and development of the muscles in the sections of the body that are severe in their shaking.

Minor dishes may be served before, during, or after a meal, to add interest and variety ; they are the appetizers, side dishes, desserts, tid-bits — never to be served as main dishes.

Minor ocular ( eye ) signs, which may be present in any type of hyperthyroidism, are eyelid retraction (" stare "), extra-ocular muscle weakness, and lid-lag.

The Jesuits today form the largest single religious order of priests and brothers in the Catholic Church, although they are surpassed by the Franciscan family of first orders Order of Friars Minor ( OFM ), OFM Capuchins, and Conventuals.

These scales are close in tuning to western Major, Minor and Lydian modes.

Minor everyday slips and lapses of memory are fairly commonplace, and may increase naturally with age, when ill, or when under stress.

Minor celebrations are held annually in Legnica to commemorate the battle.

The Minor Threat EP and their only full-length studio album Out of Step have received a number of accolades and are cited as landmarks of the hardcore punk genre.

Their identity has not survived but based on calculations these are believed to have been α and κ in Draco and β in Ursa Minor.

Most punk rock songs are short, have simple and somewhat basic arrangements using relatively few chords, and they use lyrics that express punk values and ideologies ranging from the nihilism of the Sex Pistols ' " No Future " to the anti-vice message of Minor Threat's " Straight Edge ".

In addition to the Manifestations of God, there are also Minor Prophets.

While the Manifestations of God, or Major Prophets, are compared to the Sun, which produces its own heat and light, Minor Prophets are compared to the Moon which receives its light from the sun.

Other Jewish prophets are considered Minor Prophets, as they are considered to have come in the shadow of the dispensation of Moses to develop and consolidate the process he set in motion.

Benjamin Minor ( originally titled Book of the Twelve Patriarchs ) and Benjamin Major are Richard of Saint Victor's great works on contemplation.

Minor low-lying river valleys close to the Portuguese border are located on the Tagus and the Río Guadiana.

The six named stars of Ursa Minor are the following:

Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters ' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like " The Griffin and the Minor Canon " ( 1885 ) and " The Bee-Man of Orn " ( 1887 ), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

* Detailed, illustrated guide to the surviving Out of the Unknown clips at Zeta Minor

Franck's use of " cyclic form " is best illustrated by his Symphony in D Minor ( 1888 ).

A coin issued by Brutus in Asia Minor 44 – 42 BC, showed one posed between two daggers ( illustrated ).

On this map Ursa Minor is an old woman and three maidens, Draco is four camels and Cepheus was illustrated as a shepherd with sheep and dog.

This work was an attempt to enliven Donatus ' Ars Minor by printing up illustrated card sets for each grammatical rule.

The extraordinary survival of the figure type, though interpretations and cult context shifted over the intervening centuries, is expressed by the cast terracotta funerary figure of the first century BCE, from Myrina on the coast of Mysia in Asia Minor, where it was excavated by the French School at Athens, 1883 ; the terracotta is conserved in the Musée du Louvre ( illustrated left ).