All 78 tarot cards, one page each
The 22 Major Arcana and the 56 Minor Arcana, upright and reversed. Every card links to a full page: what it means, what it means reversed, where it sits in its suit, and how often a card of its kind actually turns up.
A tarot deck holds 78 cards: 22 Major Arcana, read as the large themes of a stretch of life, and 56 Minor Arcana in 4 suits of 14 — Wands, Cups, Swords, Pentacles — covering the day-to-day. The Majors are 28.2% of the deck, which is why 63.6% of three-card spreads contain at least one of them: a "big card" turning up is the ordinary case rather than a sign.
There are 76,076 different sets of three cards you can draw from it, and 4,56,456 if the three positions mean different things. Nothing on these pages is calculated from your birth details or your name — the meanings are the traditional attributions, written plainly, and the only part that is arithmetic is the part that says how often.
The Major Arcana
All 22, The Fool at zero through The World at twenty-one.
↑ New beginnings, innocence, spontaneity, free spirit
↓ Recklessness, risk-taking, foolishness
↑ Manifestation, resourcefulness, power, inspired action
↓ Manipulation, untapped talents, poor planning
↑ Intuition, sacred knowledge, subconscious mind
↓ Secrets, withdrawal, silence
↑ Femininity, beauty, nature, nurturing, abundance
↓ Creative block, dependence, emptiness
↑ Authority, structure, control, fatherhood
↓ Domination, rigidity, lack of discipline
↑ Spiritual wisdom, tradition, conformity, education
↓ Personal beliefs, freedom, challenging status quo
↑ Love, harmony, relationships, alignment of values
↓ Imbalance, misalignment, disharmony
↑ Control, willpower, success, determination
↓ Lack of direction, aggression, no control
↑ Inner strength, bravery, compassion, focus
↓ Self-doubt, weakness, insecurity
↑ Soul-searching, introspection, inner guidance
↓ Isolation, loneliness, withdrawal
↑ Good luck, karma, life cycles, destiny
↓ Bad luck, resistance to change, breaking cycles
↑ Fairness, truth, cause and effect, law
↓ Unfairness, dishonesty, lack of accountability
↑ Pause, surrender, new perspective, letting go
↓ Delays, resistance, stalling
↑ Endings, change, transformation, transition
↓ Resistance to change, fear of endings
↑ Balance, moderation, patience, purpose
↓ Imbalance, excess, lack of purpose
↑ Bondage, attachment, habit, the shadow side
↓ Breaking free, reclaiming power, naming the hold
↑ Sudden change, upheaval, chaos, revelation
↓ Avoidance, fear of change, delayed disaster
↑ Hope, faith, purpose, renewal, spirituality
↓ Lack of faith, despair, disconnection
↑ Illusion, fear, anxiety, subconscious, intuition
↓ Release of fear, repressed emotion, clarity
↑ Positivity, fun, warmth, success, vitality
↓ Inner child, sadness, overly optimistic
↑ Rebirth, inner calling, absolution, reflection
↓ Self-doubt, refusal of self-examination
↑ Completion, achievement, travel, fulfilment
↓ Incompletion, shortcuts, delays
Wands
The Fire suit — action, work, drive and creative push. 14 cards, Ace to Ten and then the four court cards.
↑ Inspiration, a new venture, raw potential
↓ A false start, hesitation, an idea talked about instead of begun
↑ Planning, first decisions, looking further out
↓ Fear of the unknown, staying local, a plan that never leaves the paper
↑ Expansion, foresight, early success
↓ Delays, a narrowed horizon, growth that stalled at the first stage
↑ Celebration, homecoming, a milestone marked
↓ An unstable footing, a celebration postponed, belonging that feels conditional
↑ Competition, scrappy conflict, crossed purposes
↓ Conflict avoided at a cost, or the friction turned inward
↑ Public recognition, progress, earned confidence
↓ A private win, credit deflected or claimed too loudly, confidence propped up
↑ Standing your ground, defence, overextension
↓ Ground given up, too many fronts, exhaustion from holding a position too long
↑ Speed, movement, news, travel
↓ Delays, scattered energy, momentum lost to a late decision
↑ Resilience, guardedness, one last push
↓ Suspicion of everyone, help refused, running on empty
↑ Burden, overload, responsibility carried alone
↓ Putting it down, delegating, releasing what was never yours
↑ Eagerness, a beginner, discovery
↓ Impatience, all announcement and no start, enthusiasm without direction
↑ Bold action, impulse, adventure, charm
↓ Recklessness, haste, a trail of half-finished plans
↑ Warm confidence, charisma, self-possession
↓ Insecurity behind the warmth, jealousy, a performance of confidence
↑ Vision, leadership, ownership of the direction
↓ Domineering, ruling on impulse, a direction promised and not backed
Cups
The Water suit — feeling, relationships and what you are attached to. 14 cards, Ace to Ten and then the four court cards.
↑ New feeling, love beginning, creative flow
↓ Feeling withheld, a blocked heart, tenderness that could not be said
↑ Mutual attraction, partnership, equal regard
↓ Imbalance, one side carrying it, a rift between two who still care
↑ Friendship, celebration, community
↓ Gossip, a third party, a crowded room that is somehow lonely
↑ Discontent, apathy, an offer overlooked
↓ The withdrawal ending, noticing what was being held out all along
↑ Grief, loss, regret, attention on what spilled
↓ Acceptance, turning round, forgiveness beginning
↑ Nostalgia, childhood, old ties returning
↓ Living in the past, an outgrown comfort, homesickness for a version that has moved on
↑ Choices, illusion, wishful thinking
↓ Clarity, the fantasies discarded, one option actually chosen
↑ Walking away, seeking something truer
↓ Fear of leaving, drifting back, staying for want of a reason to go
↑ Contentment, a wish granted, satisfaction
↓ Smugness, a wish that arrived and did not satisfy, pleasure held at arm's length
↑ Emotional fulfilment, family, belonging
↓ A picture that does not match the feeling inside it, disconnection at home
↑ A tender invitation, sensitivity, news that moves you
↓ Moodiness, a feeling that stayed unsaid, sensitivity turned into sulking
↑ Romance, sincerity, following the heart
↓ Idealism, a promise outrunning reality, mood standing in for devotion
↑ Empathy, intuition, emotional attunement
↓ Over-involvement, absorbing everyone's mood, care that leaves nothing over
↑ Emotional command, calm, wise counsel
↓ Suppression dressed as calm, coldness, feeling used as leverage
Swords
The Air suit — thought, conflict, truth and the things said out loud. 14 cards, Ace to Ten and then the four court cards.
↑ Clarity, breakthrough, a truth named
↓ Confusion, clarity refused, a true thing used as a weapon
↑ Stalemate, avoidance, a decision deferred
↓ The blindfold off, information arriving, the choice finally made
↑ Heartbreak, a painful truth, grief
↓ Recovery beginning, the hurt releasing, forgiveness that took time
↑ Rest, recovery, deliberate retreat
↓ Restlessness, burnout, rest refused until the body insists
↑ A costly win, hollow victory, discord
↓ Making amends, walking away from the point, a truce nobody announced
↑ Transition, moving on, leaving rough water
↓ A departure not finished, carrying the trouble along, going back over the same crossing
↑ Stealth, a shortcut, something not quite straight
↓ Coming clean, being caught, the shortcut abandoned
↑ Feeling trapped, restricted thinking
↓ The bindings coming loose, one edge tested, a way out that was always there
↑ Anxiety, night fear, worry out of proportion
↓ The fear named out loud, worry losing its grip, help asked for
↑ Rock bottom, an ending that cannot worsen
↓ The worst behind, slow recovery, refusing to let it be the end
↑ Curiosity, blunt questions, mental restlessness
↓ Tactlessness, scattered attention, talk that goes nowhere
↑ Rushing in, a good point badly timed
↓ Aggression for its own sake, burnout, an argument nobody can win
↑ Honest clarity, boundaries, precise kindness
↓ Coldness, cutting words, bitterness that has stopped noticing itself
↑ Judgement, principle, the authority of intellect
↓ Rigid rule, logic used to avoid people, authority overreaching
Pentacles
The Earth suit — money, the body, craft and material security. 14 cards, Ace to Ten and then the four court cards.
↑ A tangible opportunity, a seed, an offer
↓ A missed opening, a plan with no ground under it, an offer let go
↑ Juggling, balance, two demands managed
↓ Overcommitment, something dropped, a schedule that stopped adding up
↑ Skilled collaboration, craft recognised
↓ Poor teamwork, work unrecognised, good enough accepted as finished
↑ Holding on, security, conservation
↓ The grip loosening — generosity, or a hold lost altogether
↑ Hardship, exclusion, help not asked for
↓ Recovery, help accepted, coming in from the cold
↑ Generosity, fair exchange, giving and receiving
↓ Strings attached, charity that humiliates, a debt standing in for a gift
↑ Patience, tending, waiting on growth
↓ Impatience, a plan pulled up early, effort spent on the wrong row
↑ Diligence, practice, unglamorous skill-building
↓ Repetition without progress, perfectionism, work that has become only work
↑ Self-sufficiency, earned comfort, independence
↓ Comfort with nobody in it, dependence, security turned into display
↑ Legacy, lasting security, what outlives you
↓ Family friction over money, a legacy that binds more than it provides
↑ Study, apprenticeship, a practical beginning
↓ Procrastination, a course left unfinished, ambition without a first step
↑ Steady progress, method, reliability
↓ Stagnation, tedium, method kept long after it stopped moving anything
↑ Practical nurture, resourcefulness, providing
↓ Overwork, self-neglect, care that has become supervision
↑ Material mastery, provision, settled authority
↓ Greed, status mistaken for security, wealth with no warmth in it
A card is a meaning. A reading is a question.
These 78 pages are a reference. Put three of them together against something you actually want to know and you have a spread — which is the part our readers do.