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Card meanings

The seventy-eight cards

Every card gets its own page: the traditional meaning, the reversal, how it reads in love, work and money, the symbolism in the 1909 illustration, and the misreading it most often attracts.

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Judgement
A card about being called to account, publicly and by something outside yourself. Judge...
XX · Major Arcana

Judgement

reckoning, awakening, assessment, summons, accounting

The Sun
The clearest card in the deck, and the least complicated. The Sun describes conditions ...
XIX · Major Arcana

The Sun

clarity, vitality, success, openness, warmth

The Moon
A card about not being able to tell what you are looking at. The Moon describes a stret...
XVIII · Major Arcana

The Moon

illusion, uncertainty, anxiety, intuition, concealment

The Star
A card of replenishment after damage, drawn as a woman pouring water back into a pool s...
XVII · Major Arcana

The Star

hope, renewal, calm, openness, replenishment

Seven of Swords
A man walks away from a camp carrying five swords by their blades, looking back over hi...
Swords

Seven of Swords

concealment, strategy, acting alone, taking, evasion

Six of Swords
A ferryman poles a boat across water, carrying two passengers and six swords. The Six o...
Swords

Six of Swords

transition, passage, leaving, assistance, gradual relief

Five of Swords
A man gathers swords while two figures walk away from him. The Five of Swords describes...
Swords

Five of Swords

hollow victory, conflict, self-interest, defeat, cost

Four of Swords
A stone knight lies on a tomb with three swords on the wall above him. The Four of Swor...
Swords

Four of Swords

rest, recovery, retreat, pause, convalescence

Three of Swords
A red heart pierced by three swords under steady rain. The Three of Swords is one of th...
Swords

Three of Swords

grief, heartbreak, painful truth, separation, loss

Two of Swords
A blindfolded figure holds two crossed swords over her chest with the sea behind her. T...
Swords

Two of Swords

stalemate, avoidance, difficult choice, truce, indecision

Ace of Swords
A hand comes out of a cloud holding one sword, point up, crowned. The Ace of Swords is ...
Swords

Ace of Swords

clarity, truth, breakthrough, decision, directness

King of Cups
A man who feels everything and shows almost none of it, seated on a throne in open wate...
Cups

King of Cups

composure, diplomacy, emotional control, steadiness, counsel