Major Arcana
These cards track large lessons and life passages: beginnings, upheaval, love, discipline, endings, and completion.
Tarot Card Guide
A brief introduction to tarot and cartomancy
Tarot decks began in fifteenth-century Italy as playing cards for games such as tarocchi. Centuries later, occult writers and artists reframed the deck as a tool for meditation, divination, and symbolic storytelling, culminating in influential modern decks like the Rider-Waite-Smith deck in 1909.
22
Major Arcana Cards
78
Cards in a full deck
Origin
Older than the printing press
How to read this set
Think in themes before predictions
Minor Arcana
In a full deck, the suits describe everyday situations, moods, relationships, work, and practical decisions.
Reading style
Start with image, feeling, and keywords. Let the cards suggest a pattern instead of forcing a fixed answer.
Current spread
One-card pull
A one-card pull is a clean snapshot. It works well for a daily focus, a writing prompt, or a single question you want to hold lightly.
Possible Interpretation
Start with a single card to get a focused theme, then expand to a
three or seven card spread when you want a fuller narrative.