Mystical Angels

Do I need the Minor Arcana?

I have both Major and Minor Arcana cards, but is the Minor Arcana necessary for every reading, or is it possible to just use Major?

Public Comments

1. yes major can be read as a separate entity set
2. I've always read that the Minor Arcana are the things that you can change, and the Major Arcana are the things you can't change. So unless you control no aspects of your own life, you'd be missing large portions of the reading. In addition, by seeing which suite of cards predominates in a reading, that can help in the interpretaion.
3. They aren't necessary, no. There is no one way to read cards, historically due to the amount of variation deck to deck. There are lots of people who read with majors alone, and in the old days many cartomancers also read with the minors alone. Fewer cards just tends to limit the degree of the specifics which can be provided to you, but that might suit you.