Guide

Tarot Card Meanings

The tarot is not a fortune-telling machine. It is a five-hundred-year-old deck of pictures that turned out to be very good at one thing: making people pause and look at their own situation from a new angle. Each Major Arcana card names a situation every life passes through, beginnings without a map, sudden collapse, quiet retreat, the slow turn of fortune.

Every guide below covers the card's classic imagery, its upright and reversed readings, the questions it asks of you, and the honest history of where it came from. Start with the reading guide if you are new, or jump straight to the card that found its way to you.

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