Tarot
Card meanings, spreads and tarot practice without the mystical fog. We explain everything with the Rider–Waite–Smith deck and show how the cards read in a real spread.
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What Is Tarot? A Beginner’s Guide
The history and structure of the deck, the 78 cards, spread positions, and an honest answer to how a reading can help you make decisions.
Major Arcana Meanings: The 22 Cards and the Fool’s Journey
22 cards of big life themes, from The Fool to The World: the three sevens of the journey and how to read a Major Arcana card in a spread.
Minor Arcana Explained: Suits, Numbers & Court Cards
56 cards of everyday life: how to read suits, numbers, and court cards, and how the Minor Arcana work together with the Major Arcana.
How to Ask Tarot Questions (With 20 Examples)
Rules for a good question, weak and strong wordings, and 20 examples about relationships, work, and money.
Three-Card Spread: How to Read Past, Present, Future
Four three-card layouts, the reading order, and a worked example: the simplest tarot spread to start with.
Tarot basics
Major Arcana
22 cards about the big themes of life, from The Fool (0) to The World (XXI). When many of them show up in a spread, the situation matters more than it looks.
Minor Arcana
56 cards in four suits: Wands for action and energy, Cups for feelings, Swords for thoughts and conflict, Pentacles for money and the body.
Spread positions
A position asks the card a question: “past”, “obstacle”, “advice”. The same card reads differently in different positions.
Three-card spreadReference: tarot card meanings
Upright and reversed meanings, love, career, yes or no, and combinations with other cards.
All 22 Major Arcana cards
- 0The Fool
- IThe Magician
- IIThe High Priestess
- IIIThe Empress
- IVThe Emperor
- VThe Hierophant
- VIThe Lovers
- VIIThe Chariot
- VIIIStrength
- IXThe Hermit
- XWheel of Fortune
- XIJustice
- XIIThe Hanged Man
- XIIIDeath
- XIVTemperance
- XVThe Devil
- XVIThe Tower
- XVIIThe Star
- XVIIIThe Moon
- XIXThe Sun
- XXJudgement
- XXIThe World
Forecasts and in-depth reports
Detailed reports based on your chart: what they include and who they suit.
Oracul tools
What you can calculate or ask right now. Each feature has its own page with an example.
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Ask the cards about your own life
Ask about love, work or money. Oracul draws cards from the full Rider–Waite–Smith deck and explains the spread in plain language.