Correspondences

Each Tarot card has attached to it various correspondences. Below is a general list, based on the Rider-Waite-Smith symbol set. These correspondences can be useful in determining dates, getting further information from a card, meditation, choosing a significator, etc. For more detailed correspondences, including Hebrew letters, see each the page for each card on this site. (See the menu to the left.)

Major Arcana

  1. Fool – air, Uranus
  2. Magician – Mercury
  3. High Priestess – Moon
  4. Empress – Venus
  5. Emperor – Aries
  6. The Hierophant – Taurus
  7. The Lovers – Gemini
  8. The Chariot – Cancer
  9. Strength – Leo
  10. The Hermit – Virgo
  11. The Wheel of Fortune – Jupiter
  12. Justice – Libra
  13. The Hanged Man – water, Neptune
  14. Death – Scorpio
  15. Temperance – Sagittarius
  16. Devil – Capricorn
  17. The Tower – Mars
  18. The Star – Aquarius
  19. The Moon – Pisces
  20. The Sun – Sun
  21. Judgement – fire, Pulto
  22. The World – Saturn

Minor Arcana

Wands – Fire – Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Cups – Water – Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces

Swords – Air – Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

Pentacles – Earth – Virgo, Capricorn, Taurus

General Themes of the Minor Arcana

Wands – career, work, creativity

Cups – emotions, affairs of the heart

Swords – thoughts, intellect

Pentacles – money, material matters