Pausing for a little longer on the symbolism of the minor arcana, it is also necessary to consider their numerical aspect which coincides with that of ordinary playing cards.

The number, beyond its current practical meaning, exclusively mathematical, has always been assimilated by the great cultures of the past to something sacred. In fact, considering it as the number of possible sectors into which the circle can be divided, a series of points equidistant from a centre, without beginning or end and therefore the emblem of perfection, a geometric image derives from it, an angular value. The number is thus configured no longer as the usual figure for us but as a meeting of lines, a center of forces that radiates energy. The representation of creation, provided by the Kabalists, through a numerical representation, symbol of a progressive descent and manifestation of the divine energies in matter, is certainly not unjustified. Just as the concordance between the number and the symbolic horizons that it opens up and which the cartomancy art has treasured does not appear casual.

In the esoteric analysis of the number, the basic subdivision between the odd, masculine, favorable and, according to tradition, always significant of a state achieved and the even, feminine, not very favorable and always referring to a transaction, to a passage must be kept in mind.

• The King: symbolizes man who has come to fruition, realization, paternity, authority, virility materialized and therefore sublimated into wisdom.
• The Queen: number thirteen, she represents the woman in her full symbolic meaning of mother-earth-water-fecundity; the yin, complement of the yang, the companion and consort of the King.
• The Knight: number twelve, marks the transition between childhood and maturity. He is the young man in full force and with loving, daring, combative desire but not yet fulfilled in marriage and fatherhood.
• The Infantryman: represents the number eleven and corresponds to an individual still in training, a child, a boy, a student who has just embarked on the journey towards the completeness of being.
• One: always positive, beneficial, symbolizes the beginning, germination.
• Two: emblem of the couple. It indicates an association but also a contrast, a rivalry.
• Three: good but still fluid, dynamic, it relates to the implementation, to the offspring of the two previous issues, now coupled. It is summarized by the figure of the triangle.
• Four: emblem of success, development, maturation and stability, in analogy with the square that represents it.
• Five: symbol of renewal, the unexpected, adventure, sometimes of marriage and success, it was considered favorable by the Pythagorean school, doubtful or even ominous by the traditions preceding it.
• Six: sum of two opposing triangles, symbolizes the balance of two opposing polarities in perpetual contrast and therefore the attraction that determines static nature, the struggle for freedom from the constraints in which one feels imprisoned.
• Seven: indicates, in analogy with the completeness of the archaic planetary system made up of seven stars, success, intellect, strength, harmonic motion.
• Eight: emblem of death and transformation the eight, as the sum of two fours, also alludes to justice, to the basic stability that underlies the changing vicissitudes of the cosmos.
• Nine: it is the number of the initiate, the perfection of three raised to a power, a symbol of divine protection, of the ideal, of everything that is far away.
• Ten: is the end, the achievement, the luck, the synthesis of the beginning and the end of the one and the zero, beyond which everything is dispersed and everything starts again.