Tarot Card Meanings

How the deck is structured

The tarot is split into two groups: the Major Arcana (22 cards) and the Minor Arcana (56 cards). The Major Arcana covers life's bigger themes — transformation, fate, and personal growth. The Minor Arcana covers everyday experience, divided across four suits of 14 cards each.

The 22 Major Arcana

The Major Arcana runs from 0 (The Fool) to XXI (The World) and traces an archetypal journey — often called the Fool's Journey — through stages of innocence, challenge, transformation and integration. When a Major Arcana card appears in a reading, it tends to signal something significant rather than routine.

Individual card guides coming soon.

The 56 Minor Arcana

The Minor Arcana is split into four suits of 14 cards each: Ace through 10, plus four court cards (Page, Knight, Queen, King). Each suit corresponds to an element and a domain of life.

Upright vs. reversed

An upright card expresses its core meaning openly. A reversed card — drawn upside-down — typically points to the same energy turned inward, blocked, or in an early stage. Not all readers use reversals; some prefer to read all cards upright and rely on position and context. Neither approach is wrong.

Yes-or-no readings

Yes-or-no tarot works by assigning a lean to each card — generally positive-energy cards (The Sun, The Star, The Ace of Cups) read as yes; challenging cards (The Tower, Five of Swords) read as no; and ambiguous cards (The Moon, The Hanged Man) read as "not yet" or "more clarity needed." This method is best for simple, concrete questions rather than complex life decisions.

Individual yes-or-no guides for each card are coming soon.