Tarot Cat Names: The Major Arcana, the Four Suits & the Court
The 78-card tarot deck is a closet full of archetypes, and a cat wears one like a throne it was born to. This guide grounds the history: tarot began around the 1440s in Milan as a card game called tarocchi, and only in the 1780s did Antoine Court de Gébelin and the seed merchant Etteilla recast it for divination; the familiar Rider-Waite-Smith deck was published in 1909, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith under A. E. Waite. Sections move through the luminous Major Arcana (Star, Sun, Moon, Selene), the shadowy trumps (Death, Devil, Hermit, Shadow), the four elemental suits — Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles — and the court ranks Page, Knight, Queen and King. Mystic and divination words follow: Sibyl, Delphi, Hecate, Fortuna, Thoth. A coat guide pairs Onyx with black, Snow with white, Pewter with grey, Ginger with orange, Calico with tortie, and bonded pairs like Sun and Moon close it out. Card meanings are framed as tarot tradition, never prophecy.
