Scorpio (Minchiate Tarot)

This rectangular playing card features a central, vertically oriented scorpion drawn in a folk art style with a segmented, pale pink body and raised, bright orange pincers. The creature has multiple legs rendered in alternating bands of green, yellow, and orange. Below the scorpion, a small bird with a red body stands on a green and yellow striped ground, facing the scorpion's tail. The card is framed by a simple border, with the Roman numeral 'XXVI' inscribed in a central cartouche at the top, flanked by two small squares containing star motifs.

This card belongs to the Minchiate deck, a 17th-century Florentine variation of the Tarot that expanded the standard trump sequence to include zodiacal signs and the elements. The inclusion of the zodiac sign Scorpio as card XXVI serves both a divinatory and cosmological purpose within the Renaissance tradition of astrological correspondences.