Tarot Card Meanings
Every one of the 78 tarot cards, with upright and reversed meanings broken out for love, work, money, and health. A card's meaning also shifts with the cards around it, so each one has a section on combinations. Drew a specific card? Find it below. Want to learn the whole deck? Browse in order, from the Major Arcana through the four suits of the Minor.
All 78 tarot cards with upright and reversed meanings for love, work, money, and health: find the card you drew or browse the deck in order.
Major Arcana
Twenty-two cards about the big storylines — calling, upheaval, loss, the meeting with yourself. When a Major Arcanum turns up in a reading, it isn’t about everyday trifles: it signals that something major is at stake.
Twenty-two cards about the big storylines — calling, upheaval, the meeting with yourself. A Major card means something important is being decided.
Wands
The suit of Fire — drive and enterprise: whether to begin, where to put your energy, why the spark went out. Wands turn up where action is called for, not deliberation.
The suit of Fire — drive and enterprise: whether to begin, where to spend your energy, why the spark died. You come to Wands for action.
Cups
The suit of Water speaks of feelings — falling for someone and cooling off, trust and hurt, everything that happens between people and inside you. People come to Cups with questions about relationships: from “what does he feel” to “why has it gone empty.”
The suit of Water — feelings between people and inside you. People come to Cups with questions about relationships: “what does he feel.”
Swords
The suit of Air — about decisions, conflict, and the truth it’s time to admit. Swords are the deck’s harshest part: they don’t comfort, but they name precisely where the problem lies — in the circumstances or in your own thoughts.
The suit of Air — about decisions, conflict, and the truth it’s time to admit. Swords don’t comfort, but they name where the problem is.
Pentacles
The suit of Earth governs the tangible — money, work, home, health. Pentacles answer the slow questions: about saving, stability, and what gets built over years rather than in a day.
The suit of Earth — the tangible: money, work, home, health. Pentacles are about stability and what gets built over years.
