General Tarot - Self Initiation Quiz

Question 1

How many cards are there in a traditional Tarot deck?

Answer 1

78

Question 2

How many Major Arcana (Trump) cards are there?

Answer 2

22

Question 3

How many Minor Arcana cards are there?

Answer 3

56

Question 4

List the four Tarot suits next to the four suits of a traditional deck of playing cards (to which they correspond).

Answer 4

Wands - Clubs
Cups - Hearts
Swords - Spades
Pentacles - Diamonds

Question 5

How are the letters of the Tetragrammaton assigned to the Suits of the Tarot?

Answer 5

Wands - Yod
Cups - Heh
Swords - Vav
Pentacles - Heh final

Question 6

How are the Four Worlds of the Qablah assigned to the suits of the Tarot?

Answer 6

Wands - Atziluth
Cups - Briah
Swords - Yetzirah
Pentacles - Assiah

Question 7

What do the ten Sephiroth and the Minor Arcana cards represent in terms of the human psyche?

Answer 7

Objective centers of energy

Question 8

What do the Twenty-two Paths and the Trump cards represent in terms of the human psyche?

Answer 8

Subjective conduits or energy channels

Question 9

Why are there Twenty-two Trump cards?

Answer 9

To represent the twenty-two Paths on the tree and the Hebrew letters.

Question 10

List the other types of energies (3 in all) that are represented by the Trumps.

Answer 10

Elemental
Zodiacal
Planetary

Question 11

What are the Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom?

Answer 11

The ten Sephiroth and the Twenty-two Paths.

Question 12

List the Twenty-two Trump cards along with their Yetziratic attributions.

Answer 12

Elemental - The 3 mother letters

The Fool - Air - Aleph
The Hanged Man - Water - Mem
Judgment - Fire - Shin

Planetary - The 7 Double Letters

The Magician - Mercury - Beth
The High Priestess - Luna - Gimel
The Empress - Venus - Daleth
The Wheel of Fortune - Jupiter - Kaph
The Tower - Mars - Peh
The Sun - Sol - Resh
The Universe - Saturn - Tau

Zodiacal

The Emperor - Aries - Heh
The Hierophant - Taurus - Vav
The Lovers - Gemini - Zayin
The Chariot - Cancer - Cheth
Strength - Leo - Teth
The Hermit - Virgo - Yod
Justice - Libra - Lamed
Death - Scorpio - Nun
Temperance - Sagittarius - Samekh
The Devil - Capricorn - Ayin
The Star - Aquarius - Tzaddi
The Moon - Pisces - Qoph

Question 13

By employing the Yetziratic attributions of the Tarot, the name EHEIEH can be written as ____________.

Answer 13

Air, Aries, Virgo, Aries

Question 14

By employing the Yetziratic attributions of the Tarot, the name ELOHIM can be written as ____________.

Answer 14

Air, Libra, Aries, Virgo, Water

Question 15

Each numbered card of the Minor Arcana represents one of the _______ in one of the ________ ________.

Answer 15

Sephiroth

Four Worlds

Question 16

Describe the energy of the suit of wands.

Answer 16

Great energy and dynamic power.

Masculine power.

Question 17

Describe the energy of the suit of pentacles.

Answer 17

Material or worldly affairs.

Business or money.

Question 18

Describe the energy of the suit of cups.

Answer 18

Form-building capacity.

Feminine power.

Question 19

Describe the energy of the suit of swords.

Answer 19

Intellect
Communication
Mental faculties
Sometimes trouble

Question 20

In addition to the Elemental and Sephirotic correspondences, each Minor card is assigned what Zodiacal attribute?

Answer 20

A Decanate.