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Tarot Card Reading
Pick a spread, shuffle the full 78-card deck and turn over your cards one by one, with a meaning for every card upright or reversed.
Choose a spread and press Shuffle and deal.
For entertainment only. A tarot reading is not advice and can’t predict the future. Please don’t base health, legal, money or relationship decisions on it.
Shuffled with your browser’s cryptographically secure random number generator. Card art is original to this site.
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Frequently asked questions
Can an online tarot reading predict my future?
No. There is no scientific evidence that tarot cards can predict events or reveal hidden information, and this page is for entertainment. The cards are chosen by a random number generator that knows nothing about you. Some people enjoy tarot as a prompt for reflection, but please don’t use it for decisions about health, money, legal matters or relationships.
How are the cards shuffled?
The page runs a Fisher–Yates shuffle over all 78 cards using your browser’s cryptographically secure random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), with rejection sampling so that no card or position is favoured. Every possible order of the deck is equally likely. With reversals turned on, each dealt card then gets its own 50/50 chance of landing upside down.
What does a reversed tarot card mean?
A card that appears upside down is called reversed. Readers disagree about how to treat reversals: common views are that the card’s energy is blocked, delayed, turned inward or taken to excess. Many readers ignore reversals altogether. The meanings here give a separate reversed reading for every card, and you can switch reversals off before you deal.
Which spread should I choose?
A one-card draw is a quick theme to think about for the day or for a simple question. The three-card spread shows past, present and future, which is a clear story that is easy to read. The Celtic cross uses ten cards for the present situation, the challenge, its roots, the recent past, your aim, the near future, your attitude, your surroundings, your hopes and fears, and the likely outcome.
Are these the Rider–Waite tarot pictures?
No. The card art on this page is original, drawn by code in your browser as simple symbolic pictures: suit symbols laid out by number on the minor cards, crowned and helmeted figures on the court cards, and a motif such as a lantern, a tower or a wheel on each major arcana card. The deck structure and the card names follow the Rider–Waite–Smith tradition, first published in 1909 with illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith, and the meanings were written for this site from the cards’ widely shared traditional associations.
Is my question saved or sent anywhere?
No. The shuffle, the cards and your question stay in this page in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, and the reading is gone when you reload or close the tab. If you want to keep it, use Copy reading and paste it somewhere yourself.
About this tool
A tarot deck has 78 cards. The 22 major arcana, from The Fool (0) to The World (XXI), represent big themes and turning points. The other 56 are the minor arcana: four suits of fourteen cards each, running from Ace to Ten followed by the Page, Knight, Queen and King. In the usual reading of the suits, Wands stand for energy and ambition, Cups for feelings and relationships, Swords for thoughts and conflict, and Pentacles for money, work and the physical world.
This page deals from the complete deck. Choose a spread, and the cards land face down in their positions; turning each one over with a flip is part of the fun. Every card has its own written meaning, both upright and reversed, together with keywords and a note on which suit or arcana it belongs to. The meaning is shown alongside what that position in the spread stands for, so you can read the card in context.
The Celtic cross is the classic ten-card layout. Six cards form a cross: the present, with the challenge laid across it, the foundation below, the recent past to the left, the crown above and the near future to the right. Four more cards stand in a column beside it for yourself, your surroundings, your hopes and fears, and the outcome. The layout here is scaled to fit a phone screen, and you can tap any card, or its line in the summary, to read it.
The artwork is original, drawn as vector graphics in your browser rather than copied from a printed deck, and the shuffle uses a cryptographically secure random generator. Treat the result as entertainment or a prompt for reflection, not as advice or a prediction. Nothing you type is stored or uploaded.
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