The complete tarot deck
All 78 cards, each with a full meaning: upright and reversed, how it reads in love and work, its symbolism, and how it answers yes or no.
The Major Arcana
22 cards
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The Fool The leap taken before you can possibly know how it turns out.
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The Magician You already hold what the situation requires — and have not necessarily used it.
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The High Priestess What you already know and have not admitted to yourself.
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The Empress Abundance that comes from tending rather than striving, at the pace growing things need.
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The Emperor Structure as an act of care: the unglamorous discipline that outlasts enthusiasm.
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The Hierophant Inherited wisdom, and which rules you follow because you have actually examined them.
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The Lovers A choice that cannot be made without declaring what you actually value.
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The Chariot Forward motion held together by will, and the discipline that keeps it from crashing.
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Strength Power exercised gently: what you were suppressing responds better to being understood.
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The Hermit Deliberate withdrawal in order to see, by your own light rather than everyone else's.
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Wheel of Fortune A turn you did not arrange: circumstance moving, and what you do while it moves.
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Justice Consequence seen clearly, weighed on what is true rather than what is comfortable.
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The Hanged Man A pause you did not choose and can use: the view from an uncomfortable angle.
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Death An ending that is not negotiable, and the relief that follows admitting it is over.
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Temperance The slow work of getting a mixture right between things that do not obviously go together.
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The Devil A bond you could leave and have not — chains the card is careful to draw loosely.
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The Tower Sudden collapse of something built wrong, and the relief of it finally coming down.
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The Star Quiet hope after a hard stretch: the calm of having nothing left to protect.
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The Moon Poor visibility and a mind that fills the gaps, where intuition is hard to tell from fear.
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The Sun Clarity and warmth without complication — the rare situation that is what it looks like.
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Judgement A reckoning you answer to willingly, after a call that has been audible for a while.
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The World A cycle genuinely completed: something finished rather than abandoned.
Wands
14 cards
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Ace of Wands A first impulse with something in it: energy that has arrived and has not yet been aimed.
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Two of Wands Standing on the wall with the world in your hand, deciding whether to leave.
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Three of Wands Watching what you already sent out: commitment made, results not yet in.
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Four of Wands Something built enough to celebrate in: arrival, welcome, a stable foundation.
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Five of Wands Everyone swinging at once: competition and friction without a real enemy.
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Six of Wands Public recognition: a win that other people can see.
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Seven of Wands Holding the high ground: defending a position you have already won.
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Eight of Wands Everything arriving at once: speed, news, and the end of a wait.
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Nine of Wands Bandaged and still standing: resilience that has cost something.
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Ten of Wands Carrying all of it: success that has become a load.
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Page of Wands Enthusiasm without a track record: a beginning taken up eagerly.
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Knight of Wands Charging in: passion and speed, with the landing unplanned.
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Queen of Wands Warmth with authority: presence that draws people without asking them.
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King of Wands Vision with the authority to enact it: fire that has learned to aim.
Cups
14 cards
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Ace of Cups A cup that overflows: feeling arriving before you know what to do with it.
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Two of Cups A bond between equals: mutual regard, an agreement made face to face rather than assumed.
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Three of Cups Three cups raised: shared celebration, and friendship that holds.
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Four of Cups Discontent with something that is objectively fine, and an offer you are not looking at.
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Five of Cups Three cups spilled and two still standing behind: grief that has not turned round yet.
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Six of Cups Memory and simple kindness, and whether you are visiting the past or living in it.
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Seven of Cups Too many options, most of them imagined: choice as a way of not choosing.
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Eight of Cups Walking away from something that is not wrong, because it is no longer enough.
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Nine of Cups Getting what you wanted, and finding out what wanting it was about.
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Ten of Cups Shared contentment: the good thing held in common rather than privately.
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Page of Cups A feeling arriving in an unlikely form, and the willingness to take it seriously.
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Knight of Cups Following a feeling somewhere: romantic, sincere, and moving more slowly than it looks.
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Queen of Cups Feeling held without being drowned in: empathy that stays a separate person.
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King of Cups Feeling under control in rough water: steadiness that costs something to maintain.
Swords
14 cards
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Ace of Swords A cut that clarifies: the moment something is finally seen plainly.
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Two of Swords Blindfolded and balanced: a decision avoided by holding both sides equally.
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Three of Swords Three swords through a heart: grief that came from something being true.
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Four of Swords Deliberate stillness: rest taken before it is forced on you.
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Five of Swords Winning and being left alone with it: victory that cost more than it gained.
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Six of Swords Leaving on quiet water: a passage away from something, taking it with you.
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Seven of Swords Slipping away with five of seven: cleverness that leaves something behind.
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Eight of Swords Bound and blindfolded, with the way out unguarded: a trap mostly made of belief.
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Nine of Swords Awake at three in the morning: anguish larger at night than by daylight.
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Ten of Swords Rock bottom, and dawn already in the sky: the ending that ends it.
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Page of Swords Alert and untested: curiosity sharp enough to cut, with no judgement behind it yet.
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Knight of Swords Full charge, sword up: conviction moving faster than consequence.
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Queen of Swords Clear sight paid for in experience: honesty from someone who has been through it.
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King of Swords Judgement with authority behind it: a decision that can withstand being examined.
Pentacles
14 cards
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Ace of Pentacles A tangible beginning: an opportunity with actual substance in it.
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Two of Pentacles Juggling on rough water: keeping two things going, with grace and effort.
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Three of Pentacles Craft recognised: skill, collaboration, and work being taken seriously.
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Four of Pentacles Holding on with both arms: security kept so tightly it stops circulating.
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Five of Pentacles Outside in the snow, passing a lit window: hardship, and help not asked for.
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Six of Pentacles Weighing what to give: generosity, with the scales still in the picture.
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Seven of Pentacles Leaning on the hoe, assessing the crop: long effort, not yet harvested.
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Eight of Pentacles Head down, one more repetition: skill built by doing it again.
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Nine of Pentacles Alone in your own garden: independence you built and can afford.
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Ten of Pentacles Three generations under one arch: wealth that has become a family.
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Page of Pentacles Studying the thing in your hands: a beginner willing to be a beginner.
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Knight of Pentacles The only knight standing still: reliability, at the pace reliability runs.
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Queen of Pentacles Practical warmth: care that arrives as food, money and a made bed.
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King of Pentacles Wealth that has become steady: mastery of the material, quietly held.