The Reading Room

Draw a card for today, or lay a three-card spread. A full Rider-Waite-Smith deck, with every card's traditional meaning.

Before you draw

A tarot reading here is a prompt to think with, not a forecast. The cards are shuffled by your browser, the meanings are the traditional ones that have accompanied this deck since 1909, and nothing you draw is recorded or sent anywhere.

What a card is good for is the question it puts to you. Sit with the one you get for a moment before deciding whether it fits — the ones that seem wrong at first are usually the ones worth the minute.

Card of the day

One card, the same for every visitor, changing at midnight. Something to carry around rather than to act on.

Turn the card to see today’s reading.

Three cards

Hold one situation in mind, then turn all three. Read them together — the middle card is usually the one the other two are talking about.

What is behind it
The ground the situation grew out of.
Where it stands
What is actually in front of you now.
Where it leads
The direction it currently points, not a fixed outcome.

The whole deck

All seventy-eight cards. Each one has its own page with the upright and reversed meanings and a note on what is actually printed on it.

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About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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