The 22 trump cards, from The Fool to The World.
The 22 cards of the Major Arcana, from The Fool (0) to The World (XXI), are the best known in the deck. Readers often take them in order as a journey, the “Fool’s journey”, from innocence through trials to completion. In a reading, a Major Arcana card is usually given more weight than a card from the four suits.
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The Fool tarot card meaning: new beginnings, trust and open-hearted risk upright; recklessness and hesitation reversed. In love, work and a yes or no reading.
The Magician tarot card meaning: focused will, skill and resourcefulness upright; scattered effort or misused influence reversed. Love, work and yes or no.
The High Priestess tarot card meaning: intuition, stillness and hidden knowledge upright; secrets or ignored instinct reversed. Love, work and yes or no.
The Empress tarot card meaning: nurture, abundance and creativity upright; smothering, neglect or creative block reversed. In love, work and yes or no.
The Emperor tarot card meaning: structure, authority and steady leadership upright; rigidity or weak boundaries reversed. Love, work, money and yes or no.
The Hierophant tarot card meaning: tradition, teaching and shared values upright; rebellion or rigid dogma reversed. Love, work, money and a yes or no reading.
The Lovers tarot card meaning: love, harmony and a meaningful choice upright; misalignment, doubt or avoided decisions reversed. Love, work and yes or no.
The Chariot tarot card meaning: determination, control and victory through focus upright; lost direction or forced control reversed. Love, work, yes or no.
Strength tarot card meaning: courage, patience and gentle self-mastery upright; self-doubt, frustration or raw impulse reversed. Love, work and yes or no.
The Hermit tarot card meaning: solitude, reflection and inner guidance upright; isolation or avoiding your own answers reversed. Love, work, money, yes or no.
Wheel of Fortune tarot card meaning: cycles, turning points and luck upright; resistance to change or a run of setbacks reversed. Love, work and yes or no.
Justice tarot card meaning: fairness, truth and accountability upright; dishonesty or avoiding consequences reversed. In love, work, money and yes or no.
The Hanged Man tarot card meaning: pause, surrender and a new perspective upright; stalling or needless sacrifice reversed. Love, work, money and yes or no.
Death tarot card meaning: endings, change and transformation upright, not literal death; clinging to the past reversed. Love, work, money and yes or no.
Temperance tarot card meaning: balance, moderation and patient blending upright; excess, imbalance or rushing reversed. In love, work, money and yes or no.
The Devil tarot card meaning: attachment, habit and feeling trapped upright, with loose chains; release reversed. In love, work and a yes or no reading.
The Tower tarot card meaning: sudden change and the fall of false structures upright, not a curse; resisting change reversed. Love, work, money and yes or no.
The Star tarot card meaning: hope, renewal and calm faith upright; discouragement, disconnection or lost faith reversed. In love, work, money and yes or no.
The Moon tarot card meaning: intuition, illusion and uncertainty upright; clarity returning and fears easing reversed. In love, work, money and yes or no.
The Sun tarot card meaning: joy, vitality and clarity upright; dimmed optimism or delayed success reversed. In love, work, money and a yes or no reading.
Judgement tarot card meaning: a call to awaken, reflection and self-forgiveness upright; self-doubt or ignoring the call reversed. Love, work and yes or no.
The World tarot card meaning: completion, wholeness and fulfilment upright; unfinished business or a final step delayed reversed. Love, work and yes or no.