The tarot blog

The tarot cards most often read as someone thinking of you, what each one really says, and how to ask the question without getting stuck in a loop.

The tarot cards most often read as signs of marriage and commitment, upright and reversed, the cards that say “not yet” and a five-card commitment spread.

Six ways to shuffle tarot cards, step by step, with how many shuffles a 78-card deck needs, tips for small hands and how reversals get in.

How tarot began as a 15th-century Italian card game and became a tool for divination, with a timeline, the key decks and the myths that don’t hold up.

Seven practical ways to read a card that lands upside down, each with a real card example, plus a worked three-card reading and exercises to practise with.

The Major Arcana card and the three Minor Arcana decan cards for every zodiac sign, with dates, what links them and how to use them in your readings.

A simple method for reading any two tarot cards together, how suits, numbers and reversals combine, and 82 common combinations for love, money, change, timing and more.

All 16 court cards suit by suit, the four ranks and their elements, how to tell whether a court card means a person, you or a situation, and what they mean in love, as feelings and reversed.

How to read tarot cards in eight steps, from choosing a deck and learning the 78 cards to reading cards you don’t know yet, connecting a spread into one story and a four-week learning plan.

The Fool’s Journey reads the 22 Major Arcana as one story. Here’s the three-row model, the story card by card and how to use it in a reading.