Tarot
Tarot card meanings
A tarot deck has 78 cards, and each one is a small story about a moment in life. Selena reads them the gentle way: not as fixed fate, but as a mirror that helps you see your situation a little more clearly and choose your next step with more kindness toward yourself.
The Major Arcana
The 22 cards of life's big turning points, from The Fool setting out to The World coming full circle. When one of them appears, the theme is usually bigger than a single day.
The Minor Arcana
The other 56 cards are the Minor Arcana. They describe everyday life: the conversations, choices, worries and small wins that fill an ordinary week. They come in four suits, each linked to an element.
Wands Fire
Drive, creativity, passion and the energy to start things. Wands talk about what excites you and what you want to build.
Cups Water
Feelings, love, friendship and intuition. Cups show what is happening in your heart and between you and other people.
Swords Air
Thoughts, words, decisions and conflict. Swords can be sharp, but they also cut through confusion and bring the truth out.
Pentacles Earth
Money, work, health, home and everything you can touch. Pentacles are about building something solid, slowly.
Each suit runs from Ace to Ten and then has four court cards. The Page is curiosity and new messages, the Knight is action and movement, the Queen is mastery from the inside, and the King is mastery out in the world. Selena is writing the minor card meanings now and adds them suit by suit.
How to read a tarot card
Start with the picture before the meaning. What do you notice first? A color, a face, a detail that feels familiar? That first impression is part of the reading, because it tells you what you are ready to see.
Then think about your question. The same card means something different for a question about love and a question about work. Upright cards usually show an energy that is flowing freely. Reversed cards show the same energy blocked, turned inward or still on its way. A reversed card is not a bad omen, it is an invitation to look closer.
Finally, notice how the message feels. Tarot doesn't decide anything for you. It gives words to what you already sense, and the choice is always yours.
The cards on this site are the original Rider-Waite-Smith deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith and first published in 1909. Her art is now in the public domain.