Tag: tarot
Five-Card Self-Care Tarot Spread
A five-card Self-Care Tarot spread helps you consider what you need and how to make time for it. You can use it to review your routine, think about what’s been tiring you, or choose something you’d enjoy doing for yourself. When to Use This Spread Try this spread when: Your week is filling up, and…
Five-Card Month Ahead Tarot Spread
A five-card Month Ahead Tarot spread helps you think about the coming month, from the plans you’d like to pursue to the support you can draw on. You can use it at the start of a calendar month or for the next four weeks. The five positions cover a main focus, an opportunity, a challenge,…
Five-Card Feeling Stuck Tarot Spread
A five-card Feeling Stuck spread helps you look at a situation that isn’t going anywhere and consider what you could do next. You can use it for a project you’ve stopped working on, a difficulty at work, or a routine you’d like to change. The five positions help you separate what’s happening, what’s getting in…
Five-Card New Beginning Tarot Spread
A five-card New Beginning Tarot spread helps you think about a change you’re making and how to get started. You can use it for a new project, a move, a course, or a change in your everyday routine. When to Use This Spread Try this spread when: You’re starting a project or learning something new.…
Three-Card Career Tarot Spread
A three-card career spread looks at your current work situation, what you can build on, and a useful next step. You can use it to think about your role, your job search, or something you’d like to develop. When to Use This Spread Try this spread when: You want to understand what’s working well in your…
Three-Card Letting Go Spread
A three-card letting go spread looks at what you’re holding on to, what makes it difficult to let go, and what could help. You can use it when you’re ready to move on from something but still feel attached to it. That might be a relationship that’s ended, a plan you’ve outgrown, or an expectation…
Three-Card Decision Spread
When you’re choosing between two options, it can help to look at each one separately. A three-card decision spread gives you a card for each option, followed by something to consider before choosing. You can use it to compare two plans, think about making a change, or work out what matters most to you in…
Three-Card Relationship Tarot Spread
A three-card relationship spread looks at your part in a relationship, the connection between you, and what needs attention. You can use it for a romantic relationship, a friendship, or a family connection. It’s helpful when you’d like to understand how things are going, especially if something has changed or you’ve been finding it difficult…
Daily Three-Card Tarot Spread
A daily three-card tarot spread gives you a focus for the day, something that could help, and a piece of advice to work with. You can use it in the morning, before a busy afternoon, or whenever you’d like some guidance on how to approach the rest of your day. It’s also a useful way…
Celtic Cross Tarot Spread
The Celtic Cross is a ten-card tarot spread for taking a closer look at a situation. It covers what’s happening now, what led up to it, the influences around you, and how things might develop. It’s a good choice when several things are affecting the same question. You might be considering a change, trying to…
Single-Card Spread
Tarot Questions for Guidance and Reflection A single-card spread is a simple way to spend a little time with tarot. You choose a question, draw one card, and see what it brings to your attention. Perhaps you’d like some guidance for the day, or there’s something on your mind that you’d like to understand better.…
Pentacles Tarot Combinations
When Pentacles appear in a spread, the reading is touching on something material: money, work, health, property, or the practical structures that hold daily life together. In combinations, Pentacles ask: What is being built, maintained, or made practical? That question grounds everything it touches. Pentacles don’t describe what’s wanted or feared; they describe what’s actually…
Swords Tarot Combinations
When Swords appear in a spread, the reading is dealing with thought, communication, or conflict. Swords describe what the mind is doing: the decisions being weighed, the truths being avoided or confronted, the anxiety sitting under the surface, or the tension that’s making everything harder. In combinations, Swords ask: What truth, conflict, or decision is…
Cups Tarot Combinations
When you pull one or more Cups cards in a spread, the reading is touching on emotional life: what someone feels, what they want, what they fear losing, or how the heart is responding to what’s happening. In combinations, Cups carry a central question: What is being felt, and how is that feeling shaping the…
Wands Tarot Combinations
When you pull one or more Wands cards in a spread, you’re looking at something that involves drive, movement, or desire. Wands describe the part of a situation that’s active, in motion, or under pressure to move. In combinations, Wands carry a central question: Where is the energy going? That question covers a lot of…
The World Tarot Card Combinations
The World is card twenty-one of the Major Arcana. It appears when something has reached a recognisable endpoint: a formal completion, a milestone, a departure, a result, a qualification, a retirement, a move. The image in the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot shows a dancing figure surrounded by a wreath, a scene of having reached somewhere rather than…
Judgement Tarot Card Combinations
Judgement is card twenty of the Major Arcana. It often appears when something from the past has come back for a decision. That might be a result, a formal announcement, a callback, a second chance, or someone being asked to explain what they did. In the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot cards, the figures on the card rise…
The Sun Tarot Card Combinations
The Sun is card nineteen of the Major Arcana. It deals with visibility, vitality, confidence, and things that have become hard to ignore or deny. In the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot cards, the image shows a radiant sun above a child on horseback, moving forward in the open, nothing hidden and nothing held back. Where The Moon…
The Moon Tarot Card Combinations
The Moon is card eighteen of the Major Arcana. It appears when someone cannot confidently separate what is true from what is assumed, feared, or hoped for. The image shows a moon lighting a path between two towers, a dog and a wolf calling up at it, and a creature rising from the water below,…
The Star Tarot Card Combinations
The Star is card seventeen of the Major Arcana. It deals with hope, orientation, and having something worth aiming toward, along with the trust that recovery or improvement is actually possible. Sometimes it shows up when there’s real evidence a situation can get better. Sometimes it shows the belief that things can improve arriving well…
The Tower Tarot Card Combinations
The Tower is card sixteen of the Major Arcana. It deals with events that overturn the existing situation fast, faster than anyone involved has time to properly prepare for. The change can arrive from outside, something nobody in the situation caused or could have prevented, or it can be the visible result of pressure that…
The Devil Tarot Card Combinations
The Devil is card fifteen of the Major Arcana. It deals with situations where desire, fear, habit, power, or material pressure has narrowed someone’s freedom to act. Sometimes the person is actively taking part in keeping things as they are. Sometimes they’re being controlled, coerced, financially trapped, manipulated, or simply worn down by someone or…
Temperance Tarot Card Combinations
Temperance is card fourteen of the Major Arcana. It deals with adjustment: fitting things together that don’t naturally sit well side by side, or bringing something back into proportion after it’s tipped too far one way. Sometimes that means finding a workable middle ground between two competing demands. Sometimes it means cutting back on something…
Death Tarot Card Combinations
Death is the thirteenth card of the Major Arcana and represents endings and significant change. It indicates that something can no longer continue in its current form. The change may be chosen or imposed, develop gradually or happen suddenly, and bring relief, pain, or a mixture of both. In tarot readings, Death generally refers to…
The Hanged Man Tarot Card Combinations
The Hanged Man shows up when a situation can’t be pushed forward the way it normally would be. Sometimes the person is choosing to wait. More often, circumstances have already taken the choice off the table, and there’s simply no obvious next move available right now. The figure in the card hangs upside down, calm…
Justice Tarot Card Combinations
Justice is card eleven of the Major Arcana. In the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, a seated figure holds a sword in one hand and scales in the other: the sword cuts through to the point, the scales weigh what’s been given against what’s owed. She’s associated with Libra, the sign of balance and impartial judgement. This card…
The Wheel of Fortune Tarot Card Combinations
The Wheel of Fortune is card ten of the Major Arcana and is about change, timing, and the parts of life that don’t move according to anyone’s plan. In the Rider-Waite-Smith image, figures rise and fall around a turning wheel. Nothing stays in the same position for long. The card is associated with Jupiter, linking…
The Hermit Tarot Card Combinations
The Hermit is the ninth card of the Major Arcana and represents time alone, reflection, and understanding gained through experience. In the Rider-Waite-Smith image, an old man stands alone on a mountain peak, holding a lantern that lights only a short distance ahead. The lantern suggests that understanding develops gradually, through careful attention and experience.…
Strength Tarot Card Combinations
Strength is card eight of the Major Arcana and represents a kind of power that’s easy to underestimate. In the Rider-Waite-Smith image, a woman gently holds open a lion’s mouth, and the card’s message is carried entirely in that gentleness: this is mastery through patience and compassion rather than force or dominance. The lion represents…
The Chariot Tarot Card Combinations
The Chariot is card seven of the Major Arcana and carries the energy of willpower, forward movement, and the control of opposing forces. In the Rider-Waite-Smith image, the charioteer stands in command of two sphinxes pulling in different directions, and the card’s central message is that progress comes not from eliminating tension but from holding…
The Lovers Tarot Card Combinations
The Lovers is card six of the Major Arcana and is more often misread than almost any other card in the deck. It’s frequently taken as a straightforward sign of romance, but its meaning runs deeper than that. At its heart, The Lovers is about choice: specifically, a significant choice that requires what someone values…
The Hierophant Tarot Card Combinations
The Hierophant is the fifth card of the Major Arcana and represents tradition, teaching, and the beliefs a community passes down. These beliefs are kept alive through ceremonies, education, and shared practices. Where The Emperor focuses on authority and rules, The Hierophant focuses on shared values and the beliefs that bring people together. He is…
The Emperor Tarot Card Combinations
The Emperor is card four of the Major Arcana and carries the energy of order, stability, and discipline. He represents the impulse to build lasting things, to set clear rules, and to lead with consistency and purpose. Where The Empress is organic and receptive, The Emperor is deliberate and organised. He is associated with Aries…
The Empress Tarot Card Combinations
The Empress is card three of the Major Arcana and carries the energy of abundance, creativity, nurturing, and growth. She is associated with Venus, the natural world, the body, sensory experience, and the conditions that allow things to develop. In a reading, she tends to bring warmth and a sense of natural richness to whatever…
The High Priestess Tarot Card Combinations
The High Priestess is card two of the Major Arcana and carries the energy of intuition, patience, and knowledge that has not yet come to light. She often points to what is not yet visible, and her presence in a reading usually asks the same thing: slow down and pay attention. Where The Magician acts…
The Magician Tarot Card Combinations
The Magician is card one of the Major Arcana and carries the energy of directed will, skill, and resourcefulness. Where The Fool is open and unformed, The Magician is focused and intentional. The four suits of the Minor Arcana are laid out on the table in front of the figure, which tells you something important:…
The Fool Tarot Card Combinations
The Fool brings new beginnings, openness, and forward movement into any combination. As the card of fresh starts and unencumbered possibility, it signals that something is about to begin, or that someone is approaching a situation with a clean slate. Its meaning in combination depends heavily on what sits beside it: nearby cards reveal whether…
Career Tarot Spread
Introduction The Career Tarot Spread is used to understand your work situation, career direction, and opportunities for growth. It helps you look at your current position and what steps may improve it. This spread is useful when you want practical guidance about your job, career path, or next move. When to Use This Spread When…
Decision Tarot Spread
Introduction The Decision Tarot Spread is used to help you choose between options. It breaks a situation into clear parts so you can see the pros, challenges, and likely outcomes. This spread is useful when you feel stuck or unsure about what to do next. When to Use This Spread When choosing between two options…
Love Tarot Spread
Love Tarot Spread Introduction The Love Tarot Spread is used to understand romantic situations and relationships. It helps you see feelings, dynamics, and possible outcomes in a clear and structured way. This spread is useful when you want insight into your connection with someone or clarity about your love life. When to Use This Spread…
