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Learn to read tarot
A complete, plain-language curriculum. Start from scratch and work through at your own pace. Every guide is written like a knowledgeable friend explaining things, warm, honest, and free of jargon.
Begin here
Start with these guides. They cover everything you need for your first reading.
- How to Read Tarot Cards for Beginners, your first reading in five steps.
- What Is the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck?, why this deck, and why beginners start here.
- How to Set an Intention Before a Reading, the one thing that separates a useful reading from a confusing one.
- How to Start a Daily Tarot Practice, one card a day will teach you more than any book.
Go deeper
Once you've read a few times, these guides expand your toolkit.
- The Major Arcana Explained, the 22 cards that carry the biggest themes.
- The Minor Arcana Explained, the four suits and the texture of everyday life.
- The Court Cards Explained, Pages, Knights, Queens, and Kings, demystified.
- What Is a Reversed Tarot Card?, what it means when a card comes out upside down.
- How to Do a One Card Tarot Reading, the simplest reading, and often the most useful.
- The Three Card Spread, past, present, future and other ways to use three cards.
- The Celtic Cross Spread, the classic ten-card layout.
- How to Ask Better Tarot Questions, the questions that produce useful readings.
- A Brief History of Tarot, where the cards came from.
- Common Tarot Mistakes Beginners Make, and how to stop making them.