All 78 Tarot Cards & Their Meanings

All 78 cards — 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana — with their upright and reversed meanings, written one card at a time.

A tarot deck splits into two halves. The 22 Major Arcana deal with the large turns of a life. They carry names — The Fool, The Magician, The High Priestess — and when one of them comes up, it lands with more weight than the rest.

The 56 Minor Arcana deal with the ordinary days: the work, the moods, the small decisions. They divide into four suits — Cups for feeling, Wands for drive, Swords for thought, and Pentacles for the material world.

A card also changes meaning depending on which way up it lands. Right way up is upright; turned around is reversed. A reversal is not a bad card. Read it as a sign that the same energy is either not ripe yet, or turned inward rather than outward.

Major Arcana

The Fool The Magician The High Priestess The Empress The Emperor The Hierophant The Lovers The Chariot Strength The Hermit Wheel of Fortune Justice The Hanged Man Death Temperance The Devil The Tower The Star The Moon The Sun Judgement The World

Cups

Ace of Cups Two of Cups Three of Cups Four of Cups Five of Cups Six of Cups Seven of Cups Eight of Cups Nine of Cups Ten of Cups Page of Cups Knight of Cups Queen of Cups King of Cups

Wands

Ace of Wands Two of Wands Three of Wands Four of Wands Five of Wands Six of Wands Seven of Wands Eight of Wands Nine of Wands Ten of Wands Page of Wands Knight of Wands Queen of Wands King of Wands

Swords

Ace of Swords Two of Swords Three of Swords Four of Swords Five of Swords Six of Swords Seven of Swords Eight of Swords Nine of Swords Ten of Swords Page of Swords Knight of Swords Queen of Swords King of Swords

Pentacles

Ace of Pentacles Two of Pentacles Three of Pentacles Four of Pentacles Five of Pentacles Six of Pentacles Seven of Pentacles Eight of Pentacles Nine of Pentacles Ten of Pentacles Page of Pentacles Knight of Pentacles Queen of Pentacles King of Pentacles