Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles — the deck's four languages

You have the Majors as one story. Today: the four suits of the Minor Arcana — the first half of that suit × number grammar. Each suit speaks for one domain of life, traditionally paired with an element:

• Wands — fire. Energy, passion, creativity, ambition. The spark that starts things. When Wands cluster in a reading, the subject is drive: what you want to build and whether the fire is fed or scattered.
• Cups — water. Emotion, relationships, intuition, meaning. Everything that flows between people and inside them. Cups questions are heart questions.
• Swords — air. Thought, truth, conflict, clarity. The sharpest suit — Swords name the stories we tell ourselves, and what it costs when those stories cut. Hard truths live here, which is why it's the suit beginners fear and experienced readers value most.
• Pentacles — earth. Body, work, money, home — everything with weight and consequence in the physical world. Pentacles ask: what are you actually building, and is it on solid ground?

A rough compass you'll use forever: Wands do, Cups feel, Swords think, Pentacles have.

The purest expression of each suit is its Ace — the element in its uncut form, a beginning in that domain: the Ace of Wands, Ace of Cups, Ace of Swords, and Ace of Pentacles.