games love to root themselves ཧfirmly in assorted my🌺thologies, psychologies, and spiritual beliefs, and it’s seldom more prominent than it is when your protagonists assign arcana from the Tarot to their friendships. With every character you can hang out with represented by an arcana from the Tarot, it provides a look into their story.

With 21 Major Arcana in the Tarot (and a few occasional additions from other Tarot decks when needed), you’ll find that each 🌠character who represents the arcana of the Tarot have a fairly common central theme. This list breaks down each arcana and its ꦉcharacters.

There have💫 been the odd arcana from other Tarot decks, but this list covers the 22 Maj🍌or Arcana as they are in the Persona series, including the Aeon arcana.

23 👍00: The Fool

In The Tarot

One of the more unique things about the Fool card in the traditional tarot is that it can seamlessly come either at the beginning or the end ofꦓ any deck, as it represents a🌃 journey instead of its beginning or end.

• Upright: New beginnings, innocence, exploration.
• Reverse: Doubt involved in taking risks.

In Persona

Often e🌼ncompassing the protagonist’s group of friends who undertake the massive adventure ahead by his side, the Fool do൲esn’t level up in the traditional sense, as it progresses as you work through the game’s story. However, this arcana will often be changed to something else during the ending portion of the game to reflect the completion of the journey and the changes in your protagonist and their friends since.

22 ꦯ 0ꦦ1: The Magician

In The Tarot

Representative of new beginnings as the first card in the tarot and⛦𒉰 with an array of imagery implying the blossoming of a new start, the Magician also has an infinity symbol depicted on the card to convey a meaning of limitless potential at the start of something new.

Upright: Everything✅ can be manifested through inspiration to 🌟take action.

Reverse: Not trying hard enough to get what you🐟 want, immaturity, being underutilized.

In Persona

The characters who fall🌺 into the Magician arcana in Persona games are often your earliest social links or confidants, due to the 🍸immediate nature of the Magician card in the Tarot deck – and due to this, they’ll often prove to be your number-two in missions. Often childish when you first meet, you’ll watch these characters self-actualize and grow throughout the game.

21 🐎 🌳 02: The High Priestess

In The Tarot

Revered as the symbol of the subconscious, the High Priestess arcana often stands to represent enlightenment and divine wisdom. The High Priestess is often c🍎onsidered to be a guide of sorts.

Upright: Intuition and knowledge.

Reverse: Silence and inward reflection.

In Persona

With an emphasis on the quietness of the Priestess as she reflects inwardly, your Persona Priestess characters will often be the quiet girls in the group. Along the way as you get to know them, they find the strength to unshackle themselves from pre-judgement or predisposition in the name of pursuing what they know is right for th♎em.

20 🌳 03: The Empress 💝

In The Tarot

Indicative of all thingꦯs feminine, the Empress arcan꧂a has everything to do with womanhood, fertility, and nurturing.

Upright: Femininity, balance, and connection.

Reverse: Facing a mental blockage or feeling a lack of🐻 power.

In Persona

Giꦇven the focus on femininity and womanhood, it’s no surprise to find the ladies in positions of power serviꦿng as your Empress arcana in Persona games. They’ll often be locked into these positions against their will, but through progressing your relationship with them, will find ways to make their destiny their own.

19 🍃 🎶 04: The Emperor

In The Tarot

Mo💧st often depicted as an elderly man sitting on a throne with something solid in the background, the Emperor stands for knowledge, control, and respect.

Upright: Power and authority, protection and structure.

Reverse: An imbalance in power, rigidity, or refusal.

In Persona

The Emperor characters in Persona games always tend t🐻o have something of a singular focus in their own life, with stories focused on learning to be themselves, believing in themselves, and learning to surrender control in some way after having their foundations shaken. Though they may initially come off as unfriendly in some way, the final rankings of your Emperor friends’ relationships is a🐬lways heartwarming.

18 05: The Hierophant ♔

In The Tarot

The Hie꧟ro⭕phant has many different names across various Tarot decks, but in each, it stands as a staunch, traditional figure of wisdom and experience.

Upright: Wisdom and conformity, with an emphasis on traditio🌼n.

Reverse: A challenging of so🔯cietal norms or one’s personal beliefs.

In Persona

Given the emphasis on the sage wisdom to be found in listening to and respecting your elders, you’ll find the majority of your parental figures and e꧃lders settling int𒐪o the Hierophant arcana in various Persona games. You’ll most often find them wrestling with some kind of travesty in their past, but it never daunts or dampens their affection for you.

17 🧜 06: The Lovers

In The Tarot

With so many loving symbols in the Lovers card, it’s no surprise that t❀his ar🎉cana typically represents connection, meaningful relationships, and openness.

Upright🍎: Healing, fertility, p💃assion, choice, and harmony.

Reverse: Imbalance, disagreement, confliction.

In Persona

Your attractive female teammates and💝 friends are commonly the ones filling the role of the Lovers arcana in Persona games, but since the card is based not only on beauty but on backstory, too, you’ll help them as they face the preconceived notions of who they are. They’re more than just pretty faces, and they’re determined to show everyone that – after you help them find the strength to do so.

16 07:💖 The Chariot

In The Tarot

With a focus on willpower and taking action, the Chariot card implies movement 🐻in its name alone, requiring discipline and strength.

Upright: Determination, 🤡ambition, control, and forwar🌠d movement.

Reverse: Sta𒁃lling out or allowing obstacles to prevent progress.

In Persona

Your friend in the story who just can’t get enough of that sport they like? You can safely bet that character will end up being your Chariot arcana in a Persona game. With the arcana about facing adversity in the name of forward progression, their stories will often see them held back in some way and finding strength to face what🍨ever challenge they’re up against.

15 ꧋ 🔯 08: Justice

In The Tarot

The Justice arcana isn’t hidden behind symbolism – it stands entirely for fairness, law, and order. The 𝓀symbol you’ll see most often associated with the Justice arcana is 🐻a scale.

Upright: Equality, firmness, truth, decision-makiꦑng, lingering imp෴act.

Reverse: Self-criticism, doubt, lies.

In Persona

Characters who file into your Justice arcana in Persona games have a pretty unshakable belief in the law and having things as they should be. Often grappling with fairness in the wake of adversities of some kind with their parents, you’ll help them along as they weigh right and wrong as they make peace with the 🅷wo꧋rld as it is, unfair as that may be sometimes.

14 09: The Hermit 💖

In The Tarot

Though plenty of the cards of the tarot focus on growth and progression, the Hermit arcana is all about a focus on the inner self and introspection, for bette🍎r or for worse.

Upright: Inner peace, introspection, self-reflection.

Reverse: Loneliness, powerlessness, seclusion.

In Persona

In some way or another, your Hermit social links and confidants in Persona games will begin your interactions by hiding from you in some way, forcing you to coax them out of their shell if you’d like to enrich the relationship. They use something to disguise themselves, even if that’s just for the sake of thꦯeir own comfort, hiding from the light of 🥀being seen for who they are.