Tarot learning library

Tarot card meanings and free readings, clearly explained

Explore the meanings of all 78 tarot cards, clearly explained in plain language, then draw your own cards in a free tarot reading.

All 78 card meanings

Major and Minor Arcana, keywords, source descriptions, and permanent reference pages.

Card of the day

One consistent UTC-day prompt to revisit and reflect on.

Yes / no prompt

Draw one card and read its context. No result is saved.

Three-card reading

Past, present, and possible direction prompts.

What is tarot?

Tarot is a deck of 78 cards used for reflection and storytelling. It has two parts. The 22 Major Arcana cards, such as The Fool and The Tower, describe large themes and turning points. The 56 Minor Arcana cards describe everyday situations and are split into four suits: Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles.

Tarovaya uses the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, first published in 1909. It is the most widely used reference deck, so most tarot books and courses describe its imagery.

How Tarovaya reads the cards

Each card page explains the upright and reversed meaning, what the card can suggest about love, career, and money, and how to treat it in a yes or no question. Every page starts with a short answer, then gives detail. Each card has its own voice. It can help you notice a pattern, see your situation more clearly, or ask a better question.

New to tarot? Start with how to read tarot, then how to ask a tarot question. When you are ready to combine cards, try the three-card spread guide and learn how reversals work.

If you would like to explore freely, the interactive tarot tabletop lets you lay out a full deck.

Free tarot readings

All three tarot readings on Tarovaya are free, need no sign-up, and run in your browser. Nothing you draw is stored.

Daily tarot card: one card each day, the same for everyone, as a short prompt to carry through the day.
Yes or no tarot: one card for a direct question, read as a leaning rather than a final answer.
Three-card tarot reading: past, present, and possible direction, read together as one story.

Every card you draw links to its full meaning, so a reading never ends with a card name and nothing else.

Major Arcana card meanings at a glance

The 22 Major Arcana cards carry the largest themes in the deck. Here is each card's meaning in brief. Open any card for the upright and reversed meaning, love, career, money, and yes or no.

The Fool: The Fool asks you to meet a new beginning with curiosity, basic preparation, and attention to what you do not know yet.
The Magician: The Magician considers agency, focused skill, and available tools.
The High Priestess: The High Priestess considers quiet observation, patient inquiry, and hidden context.
The Empress: The Empress considers nourishment, creativity, and conditions for growth.
The Emperor: The Emperor considers structure, responsibility, and boundaries.
The Hierophant: The Hierophant considers shared learning, tradition, and mentorship.
The Lovers: The Lovers connects relationship with choice, asking whether your actions match your values and whether consent and honesty are present.
The Chariot: The Chariot considers direction, discipline, and coordinated effort.
Strength: Strength considers patient courage, compassion, and self-command.
The Hermit: The Hermit considers solitude, discernment, and careful search.
Wheel of Fortune: Wheel of Fortune considers cycles, changing conditions, and adaptation.
Justice: Justice considers fairness, accountability, evidence, and consequences.
The Hanged Man: The Hanged Man explores chosen pause, changed perspective, and the difference between useful surrender and avoidable stagnation.
Death: Death usually refers to an ending, release, or transition in tarot study. It does not predict literal death.
Temperance: Temperance examines proportion, integration, and steady adjustment when different needs or resources must work together.
The Devil: The Devil can point to attachment, pressure, or a habit with a cost. It does not label a person as bad or trapped forever.
The Tower: The Tower can describe disruption that exposes a weak assumption. It does not predict disaster or guarantee that events will get worse.
The Star: The Star points toward renewal, attention, and a return to what restores you. It does not promise that circumstances will improve.
The Moon: The Moon explores uncertainty, projection, instinct, and the careful navigation of situations that are only partly visible.
The Sun: The Sun considers clarity, vitality, shared joy, and the responsibilities that come with increased visibility.
Judgement: Judgement explores honest reckoning, response to a call, and the possibility of renewal after reviewing the past.
The World: The World can describe completion, integration, and a pause to recognize a finished cycle before a new one starts.

Looking for a Minor Arcana card? Browse the full list of 78 tarot card meanings.

About the deck and the writer

The card images on Tarovaya are based on the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith and first published in 1909. The versions you see here are a modern interpretation of those originals by the artist Julia Dreams. Its fully illustrated Minor Arcana made it the reference deck for most modern tarot books.

Card meanings and guides are written by Isolde Veyra. Read where the name Tarovaya comes from.