Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01

There had been many guesses but the students were mostly answering correctly. Apart from the Myrtle outbursts things were going good so far. "Right so like many of you said the Rider-Waite Tarot deck has seventy-eight cards. They are split into three categories: the 22 Major Arcana, the 40 Minor Arcana, and the 12 Court Cards."

She paused for a minute for them to write this all down and to give Myrtle, Alexa, and Dylan a quick look before moving on. "Sometimes the Major Arcana cards are called 'Face cards' because they are the ones with the drawings rather than the numbers. Now I would like you to all remove your decks of Tarot cards from the boxes on your desks and pull out all of the Major Arcana cards. Once you've done this, open your textbooks to the chapter on Tarot Cards and then raise you hand to present what you find on one of them." Simple enough, right?

"So basically what I need you to do is pick one with a picture on it, like this one," the Divination professor said as she held the Fool card up for them all to see. "and then look it up in your book and present your findings to the class. Go ahead and get to work."[/color]

Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01

After giving the students a few minutes to pick a card and then look it up in their textbooks, Calista listened to their answers. For the most part, except for a few who seemed to be goofing off with their cards (they would just be a step behind then), they had done fairly well. "Good job everyone, as you can see after just dealing with the Major Arcana cards there is a lot of memorization work tied into Cartomancy. For now since you all are beginners you are going to be allowed to use your textbooks."

Professor Elwood picked up the Empress card herself and held it up for them all to see. "Before we move on to the other two groups of cards I want to explain something important about ALL of the cards in this tarot deck that Miss Potter hinted on in her card report." She gestured at the Hufflepuff before pointing her ringed finger at the card. "When a reader or the person being given the reading draws this card, the Empress, they will be shown the nourishment and sustaining powers they have with others. But if it is drawn this way," The professor flipped the card upside down so that the woman on the throne had her head at the bottom of the frame, "You get the opposite meaning. You will be characterized as having a malnutrition attitude to your careless raising of others." Yeah, so obviously not so good as the original meaning.

"So now that we have been introduced to the Major Arcana cards, let's talk about the Minor Arcanas. As I and some of your classmates have mentioned at the beginning of class today, there are suits to tarot cards much like regular muggle playing cards. The Minor Arcanas of this particular deck of tarot cards don't have the elaborate pictures that the Major Aracana do but instead have a number of small pictures that is the same as the number give to the card. For example, three red hearts on a number three card."

"However Tarot Cards have different suits than regular playing cards? Can anyone tell me one or even all of them? You may use your textbook."

OOC: Hey guys, when I say you can use the textbook it typically means it's up for you all to research the information on the internet. Sometimes I link you to sites that I want you to use, but because Tarot Cards are so widely used, I trust the information you find will be rather close to my own. Once the lesson is over I will be creating a 'chapter in the Divination Textbook' for you all to use for OWLs/NEWTs in the Divination Classroom Forum.