The Cards of the Minor Arcana. The Cards of the Major Arcana. All the Tarot Cards Explained. Tarot Card Meanings - Understanding Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Cards. Divination Tarot cards represent lessons, situations, events, interactions and influences that affect people.
The cards feature descriptive imagery designed to project the possibilities of a situation or influence. When reading Tarot cards, one should look carefully at the entire picture, both the foreground and the background. It is important for the reader to pay attention to the possibilities presented by the cards. Tarot Reversals Unlike some types of playing cards, Tarot cards typically are not reversible. Elemental Correspondence As with Astrology, Tarot is associated with the elemental forces of Fire, Water, Air and Earth.
Tarot Spreads Tarot readings encompass a number of different spreads. The Tarot Deck The Tarot deck is composed of 78 cards. Individual Tarot Card Meanings The Tarot card meanings on this site feature Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot cards, and are indexed according to the segments of the deck. Individual Tarot Cards. Individual Tarot Cards [ How to interpret card information pages] - [ Summary Charts ] MAJOR ARCANA--- [ images ][ Fool ][ Magician ][ High Priestess ][ Empress ][ Emperor ][ Hierophant ][ Lovers ][ Chariot ][ Strength ][ Hermit ][ Wheel of Fortune ][ Justice ][ Hanged Man ][ Death ][ Temperance ][ Devil ][ Tower ][ Star ][ Moon ][ Sun ][ Judgement ][ World ]
Tarot Card Meanings Free. Tarot Card Meanings - The Major Arcana Use the menu in the right hand sidebar to select the tarot card you would like to know more about.
We currently only list the meanings of the Major Arcana. If you would like information about the other cards in the Tarot deck, please check out our free learn tarot course, which is available in it's entirety here on Lotus Tarot completely for FREE! The tarot cards used in this section are copyright © Tricia Newell and are from The Mythic Tarot by Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene, published in the US by Simon & Schuster/Fireside (1986), in the UK by Ebury Press/Random House UK (1986), in Australasia by Simon & Schuster (1989), in Canada by General/Stoddart (1988), in France by Editions de La Maisnie (2002), in Germany by Hugendubel Verlag (1987), in Czech Republic by Synergie (2001), in Russia by KSP-Plus (2000), in Portuguese by Livrarias Siciliano (1988) and reproduced by permission of Eddison Sadd Editions, London.