🔮 What tarot is

A deck of 78 picture cards. You think of a question, shuffle, and lay cards out in a pattern called a spread. Each place in the spread has a meaning (like “past” or “advice”), and each card's picture and traditional meaning give you something to reflect on.

Think of it as a mirror for your thoughts, not a fortune: the cards are drawn at random, and what matters is what they help you notice.

🌟 The two parts of the deck

22 Major Arcana, from The Fool (0) to The World (21): big life lessons and turning points. Read them as the main story.

56 Minor Arcana, in four suits of 14 (Ace to Ten, then Page, Knight, Queen and King): everyday events, feelings and people.

🃏 The four suits

Numbers tell a story from Ace (a seed, a start) to Ten (completion, sometimes too much). Court cards are people, or sides of you: Pages are learners and messages, Knights are action, Queens are inner mastery and care, Kings are outer mastery and leadership.

🙃 Reversed cards

A card that comes out upside down is reversed. It usually means the card's energy is blocked, delayed, inward, or too much or too little. Not a bad omen: a softer or more inward version. You can turn reversals off under Read.

❓ Asking a good question

• Open questions work best: “What do I need to know about my new job?” rather than “Will I get rich?”
• Ask about yourself and what you can do, not what someone else will do.
• One question per reading. Pull again later, not straight away.

📖 Reading a spread

1. Look at each card in its place: the place's meaning plus the card's meaning.
2. Look at the whole: lots of Majors means big themes; one suit dominating tells you the area of life. The app sums this up for you.
3. Notice your first reaction to each picture. That is often the most useful part.
4. Write it down in the Journal and look back later.