TAROT

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Shuffle the deck, pick your cards and turn them over. Each card is explained in plain words, beside the meaning given to it by A. E. Waite in 1910, in his guide to the deck most tarot follows today.

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How the cards are drawn and read

The draw: The deck is shuffled in your browser, using its cryptographic random-number generator: each of the seventy-eight cards is as likely as any other to land in any place, and each is as likely to fall reversed as upright. You choose which cards to take. Nothing about you goes into it, and nothing is sent anywhere.
The meanings: Each reading is written for this site from the meaning A. E. Waite gives the card in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the book written for the deck most tarot follows today. His own words are quoted under every card, as he wrote them, 1910 phrasing and all.
How many: 3 draws a day are free, counted in this browser and reset at midnight. Opening a reading from its link never counts, and every card's meaning stays free to read. A subscription gives you unlimited draws.
The spreads: The Celtic cross is Waite's own method (Part III §7), laid out as his diagram lays it. He begins by choosing a card to stand for the person asking; here all seventy-eight stay in the deck. The three-card spread is modern practice, not his.
The pictures: The trumps and the court cards were made for this site with an AI image model, from Waite's descriptions of each card. The number cards are laid out as the older decks laid them, with the suit's emblem repeated as many times as the card's number.
What a reading is: A spread is a set of pictures to think with. It does not foretell anything, and it is not advice on health, money or the law.

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TAROT

Draw the cards

Shuffle the deck, pick your cards and turn them over. Each card is explained in plain words, beside the meaning given to it by A. E. Waite in 1910, in his guide to the deck most tarot follows today.

All 78 cards and what they mean →

Preparing the chart…

This usually takes a second or two.

Still working. On a slow connection it can take a few seconds more.

How the cards are drawn and read

The draw: The deck is shuffled in your browser, using its cryptographic random-number generator: each of the seventy-eight cards is as likely as any other to land in any place, and each is as likely to fall reversed as upright. You choose which cards to take. Nothing about you goes into it, and nothing is sent anywhere.
The meanings: Each reading is written for this site from the meaning A. E. Waite gives the card in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), the book written for the deck most tarot follows today. His own words are quoted under every card, as he wrote them, 1910 phrasing and all.
How many: 3 draws a day are free, counted in this browser and reset at midnight. Opening a reading from its link never counts, and every card's meaning stays free to read. A subscription gives you unlimited draws.
The spreads: The Celtic cross is Waite's own method (Part III §7), laid out as his diagram lays it. He begins by choosing a card to stand for the person asking; here all seventy-eight stay in the deck. The three-card spread is modern practice, not his.
The pictures: The trumps and the court cards were made for this site with an AI image model, from Waite's descriptions of each card. The number cards are laid out as the older decks laid them, with the suit's emblem repeated as many times as the card's number.
What a reading is: A spread is a set of pictures to think with. It does not foretell anything, and it is not advice on health, money or the law.