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The Major Arcana Cards of Tarot
The Major Arcana of a Tarot deck (also known as the Trumps Major, Major Trumps) consists of 22 cards. Each Major Arcanum depicts a scene, mostly featuring a person or several people, with many symbolic elements and, in general, they represent various forces, characters, virtues, and vices. In many decks, each has a number (usually in Roman numerals) and a name, though not all decks have both, and some have only a picture.
The Major Arcana are usually regarded as relating to matters of higher purpose, deep significance, spiritual matters, or important trends in the questioner's life, as opposed to the Minor Arcana which relate to the everyday world and matters of immediate significance. One of the most common set of names and numbers, from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, is as follows:
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