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Read about Tarot
About this reading: Tarot originated as a card game in 15th-century Europe and only came to be used for divination from the 18th century onward. A full deck has 22 Major Arcana cards (from The Fool to The World) plus 56 Minor Arcana cards closer to an ordinary playing-card deck; on this page you can draw from all 78 or from the 22 Major Arcana alone, using one card, three, or the Love (5), Two Paths (5) or Celtic Cross (10) spreads. Each card carries a different meaning upright versus reversed, and a reading is built from the combination of cards drawn.
The 22 Major Arcana are often described as forming a single story, from the Fool setting out to the completed cycle of the World. Birth, love, death, judgment — events and feelings almost no life avoids — are folded into the cards' imagery, so they've long been read as more than just markers of good or bad luck: as a mirror showing where in that story you currently stand. The Minor Arcana, by contrast, fall into four suits — Wands (fire), Cups (water), Swords (air) and Pentacles (earth) — and reflect concrete everyday scenes of work, love and money. This site treats a reversed card less as an automatic "bad" meaning and more as that same meaning turned inward, not yet showing itself outwardly.
Lore column: The Card with No Name and the Rule Against Buying Your Own Deck
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
Tarot has gathered many traditions that were added along the way. One of the best known is the rumor that you must never buy your first deck yourself and should only use one given to you as a gift. Most experts dismiss it as baseless superstition, yet it lives on alongside other customs such as wrapping the cards in cloth and never letting anyone else touch them.
Even tarot's mystical aura was put on later. In 1781 the French clergyman Antoine Court de Gébelin claimed the cards carried the wisdom of ancient Egypt, and another writer in the same volume linked them to the "Book of Thoth." Later Egyptology found nothing to support this, but the story helped spread tarot as a tool for divination. The thirteenth card, Death, is also left unnamed in the Tarot de Marseille and is sometimes called "the card with no name"; in readings it usually signifies an ending and transformation rather than literal death.
As we see it here, tarot's traditions grow out of a wish to keep the cards as "something more than paper." Using a gifted deck, wrapping it in cloth, leaving a name unwritten: each gesture draws a line between everyday objects and sacred ones. This is speculation, but the nameless Death card may be a trace of the old fear, much like the Japanese belief in the power of words, that speaking something aloud might summon it. Not fearing the card you draw too much, yet not treating it too lightly either: that balance may be the true substance of these long-told customs.
In-depth article:We have an in-depth article covering this reading's origins, how to interpret it, and our own analysis.
What Is Tarot? How Game Cards Became “Picture Cards of Fate”Tarot
Draw from the full 78-card tarot — 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana — for the card that reflects where you stand right now.
Enter the two options you are torn between and the reading will use your words. You can also leave them blank — the reading then simply calls them "A" and "B".
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