current playing card decks are a primitive version of the original tarot. the tarot deck is like a book of memes based on astrotheology, a kind of torah for kids, designed to be closely studied with kabbalah (hebrew for "reception" [of knowledge]).
13 diamonds - earth - pentacles (spring-taurus) 13 spades - air - swords (winter-aquarius) 13 hearts - water - cups (fall-scorpio) 13 clubs - fire - wands (summer-leo)
  • 56 cards of minor arcana (13 + paige)
  • 22 cards of major arcana (11 for microcosmic tree of life, of the individual. 11 for macrocosmic tree of life, of the collective.)
earth - material realm (what we got/know) air - intellectual realm (how we think) water - emotional realm (how we feel) fire - realm of action (what we do)
inherent properties -> think -> care/feel -> act feet on the ground <---> head in the cosmos