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Tarot Card Meanings

Every card in the deck, with its upright and reversed meaning and how it reads in love, work, money, feelings and advice. Start with a card that has been appearing for you, or browse a suit that matches your question.

How to read a card meaning

A card meaning is a range, not a verdict. The Tower is not simply disaster and the Sun is not simply happiness; each card describes a movement — something collapsing, something becoming visible — and your own situation decides what that movement looks like in practice.

Position matters as much as the card. The same Five of Cups reads as unresolved grief in a past position and as a warning about where your attention is going in a present one. When you read three cards together, look for the story between them rather than three separate verdicts.

Reversals are optional. Many readers treat a reversed card as the same energy turned inward, blocked or overdone rather than as its opposite, which is how the reversed meanings on these pages are written.

Major and Minor Arcana

The 22 Major Arcana describe the large forces of a life: thresholds, reckonings, endings and renewals. When several appear in one spread, the situation is usually bigger than the question that was asked.

The 56 Minor Arcana describe daily texture, divided into four suits of fourteen cards. They tell you how something is happening — through feeling, work, thought or drive — and often carry the practical advice a reading turns on.