Geometry of the Minor Arcana
The Tree of Life (Otz Chiim)
Touch any of the 22 Paths or 10 Sephiroth on the diagram — or select from the index below — to unveil the corresponding plates.
Complete Index of the 22 Paths (11th to 32nd)
Index of the 10 Sephiroth (1 to 10)
The fifty-six minor plates are distributed across four suits, each linked to a letter of the Tetragrammaton (YHVH), an element and a plane of manifestation:
- Wands (Yod · Fire · Atziluth): The Archetypal World of Emanation and pure Will.
- Cups (Heh · Water · Briah): The Creative World of receptivity, intuition and feeling.
- Swords (Vau · Air · Yetzirah): The Formative World of reason, analysis and mental conflict.
- Disks (Heh Final · Earth · Assiah): The Material World of action, crystallization and work.
The four Aces reside in Kether as pure roots of the elements. The numbered cards from 2 to 10 descend from Chokmah to Malkuth and correspond to the 36 astrological decans of ten degrees each, governed by pairs of Angels of the Shem Ha-Mephorash.
Each suit features four figures personifying the elemental sub-quadrants and governing 30-degree spans of the Zodiac (from 20° of one sign to 20° of the next): Knight (Fire of the element), Queen (Water of the element), Prince (Air of the element) and Princess (Earth of the element and Throne of the Ace).