Tarot

Card meanings, spreads and how to interpret them.

Tarot

How to read tarot at home as a beginner: six steps and one complete worked reading

You do not need a gifted deck, candles, or 78 meanings by heart. This walks through six steps, then does one real reading for the question “should I change jobs this year”, card by card.

20/09/2026 · 8 min read

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What reversed tarot cards mean: three schools, the man who first printed reversals on cards, and picking one to keep

What does an upside-down card mean? There are at least three widely used answers, and they contradict each other. This piece lays out all three, tells the story of the man who printed reversed meanings on cards in the 1780s, and names the one mistake worth avoiding.

23/08/2026 · 3 min read

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The 56 Minor Arcana: four suits, four ranks, and the 1491 deck Pamela Colman Smith borrowed from

The Majors describe the big movements; the Minors describe this week. This piece explains the four suits, how to read the court cards, and the little-known story of where the familiar Minor Arcana pictures came from.

18/08/2026 · 4 min read

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Which tarot spread to use: one card, three, or the Celtic Cross, and why more cards is not always better

Ten cards for a small question mostly adds noise, and makes it easier to find what you hoped to find. Here is how to match the spread to the question, plus the story of the 'ancient Celtic' spread that first appeared in 1910.

03/08/2026 · 4 min read

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What the 22 Major Arcana are about, and when a spread full of them actually means something

A three-card spread turns up two or more Major Arcana about one time in five. This piece covers how the 22 are read as a journey, who painted them, and why Death and the Tower are less frightening than their names.

04/07/2026 · 4 min read

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  • Born on a cusp: why sites disagree about your star sign, and how to find out for certain23/10/2026
  • How the Big Five and the sixteen types differ: measuring on a scale or sorting into boxes, and why it decides how far to trust each27/10/2026
  • Retook a personality test and got a different result: why it happens so often, and how to read two results30/10/2026
  • What the Saturn return is: why twenty-nine is so often a messy year, and what psychologists found in people about to turn thirty03/11/2026