Also said to represent a rudimentary phallus (from the book The Da Vinci Code). Represents the sword, air, the power of the breath and mind. The suits symbolise the magicians toolkit of the magical elements.
There are 13 cards in each suit, representing the 13 phases of the moon. There are 4 suits in a deck of cards, representing the 4 seasons of the year. There are 52 cards in a deck, representing the 52 weeks in a year. Adding an extra joker makes it 366, the number of days in a leap year. There are a total value of 364 on all the cards in a deck, 365 when the joker is added as the 365th, representing the 365 days in a year. There are 24 even cards in a deck, representing the number of hours in a day (I made that one up ). The black and red represents night and day respectively. Here are some interesting features in a deck of cards very few know: Although there are differences, there are astounding correspondences between the modern deck of cards and a tarot deck. The pieces of paper are still a magic book. The modern standard deck of cards is said to contain all the secrets of the Kabbalah, the greatest known collection of esoteric knowledge known to western man. The magician reminds us that the power of the entire universe exists within us, and we all have the power to transform reality. One arm pointing toward the heaven, and one toward the Earth, it is a symbolic gesture of as above, so below. The magician teaches us how to live in balance with the miracle of nature around us and within us. The highest card in a Tarot deck is the magician. They believed your own intuitive magical powers could be awakened through contemplating the images of the cards. The gypsies used the cards for two things: gambling and divination (or fortune telling). The tarot cards were taken out of Egypt, and spread through northern Europe in the 1400’s by the gypsies. What would ensure this book was not lost to another fire? The book was cut up, disguised as a game of cards, playing cards, for the magicians knew man’s appetite for greed would live eternally, and it was natural that all the sacred advice was hidden in a form of vice, if man stayed true to his vice, his very vice would remain his true advice. All the magicians were from different lands and spoke different languages, so artists and scholars created a picture book of symbols containing all the mystical teachings which surpassed language, boundary, and time itself. Something had to be done, so the magicians formed a mystical alliance of secret knowledge to protect the ancient knowledge, and gathered in the city of Fez, Morocco, and they agreed to create one magic book, one book to contain all the secrets of magic. Religious fanatics kept on raiding the library, burning all the books and the magicians. 
Two thousand years ago, all the ancient mysteries, sacred knowledge, mystical teachings were kept in one place, the Great Library of Alexandria.
A few hundred years ago, magic was viewed as a heresy and people were even put to death. There is a history and origin to how the modern deck of cards came to be created.
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