🏆Minor Arcana Course
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Free Course by Everything IFS Academy | Divination Series
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🏆Welcome to the Minor Arcana Course for Everyday People
The Minor Arcana are the cards most tarot spreads are actually made of: forty numbered cards across the suits of Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles, which spent centuries as near-blank suit patterns before the artist Pamela Colman Smith gave every one of them a full pictured scene in 1909, drawing on a one-of-a-kind Renaissance deck and a century of card-readers' meanings before her.
The angle of this course is the tradition's own best secret: each suit tells one continuous ten-card story, and once you know the story, forty cards stop being a memorization chore and become a language you can recognize. This course is one of four that together teach the whole deck; the Tarot course opens the system, and the Major Arcana and Court Cards courses each have their own deep dive.
This course teaches the Minor Arcana pure to itself, with no other systems blended in. It's written in plain, emotionally relatable language anyone can follow, whether you've read cards for years or this is your very first step. It isn't a reading service or religious instruction, and it never tells anyone their future; it's the cards themselves, their imagery, their traditional meanings, and their real history, taught so you can actually understand them. Each module offers clear teaching, real-life illustrations, and an honest telling of both the tradition's own story and its true history. This course is self-paced, with no tests, exams, or homework. Feel free to go through it in order, or jump around to whatever interests you most.
If you'd like the whole deck, the Tarot course teaches the system these cards live in, and the Major Arcana and Court Cards courses complete the other thirty-eight cards.
Course Outline
Click any module below to begin.
The Basics
How a Suit Unfolds
The Four Suits
Living It
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Disclaimer: Everything IFS Academy is an independent educational platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the IFS Institute. While we strive for accuracy, errors can occur, and users are encouraged to cross-reference critical information. These courses present divination systems and their traditions for educational, historical, cultural, and self-reflection purposes only. They describe what these systems and their traditions teach and how their readers have traditionally interpreted them; they do not constitute fortune-telling services, predictions, religious instruction, spiritual direction, or an endorsement of any metaphysical claim, and they should never be used as a basis for medical, financial, legal, or safety decisions. They do not constitute therapy, mental health treatment, clinical training, or crisis support, and they should not be used as a substitute for professional mental health care.
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