78 cards on one table
Look closer. Every card tells you what it means.
22 cardsMajor Arcana
The big turns of a life, in 22 cards. It opens with a fool at the edge of a cliff and closes with a dancer inside a wreath.
Meet the 22
Fire, 14 cardsWands
Wands burn. They're the cards of drive, nerve and the urge to start.
Into the Wands
Water, 14 cardsCups
Cups hold what you feel: love, longing, the friend who stays.
Into the Cups
Air, 14 cardsSwords
Swords think, argue and decide. They cut clean, and sometimes they cut you.
Into the Swords
Earth, 14 cardsPentacles
Pentacles are what you can hold: money, work, a body, a home.
Into the Pentacles
How we read a cardTaken apart
Each card is a sentence in pictures. We split it into pieces so you can read it word by word. Start with The Moon: a moon, two towers, a dog, a wolf and a crayfish.
Read The MoonThe deck at a glance
- Cards
- 78
- Major arcana
- 22
- Minor arcana
- 56
- Suits
- 4
- Elements
- 4
- Waite's key
- 1911
Our meanings start from Waite's own book, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911).