tarot REFERENCE · 8 ARTICLES
Tarot foundations
Questions, reversals, combinations, courts, numbers and decks.
Tarot foundations
Introduction to tarot
What a tarot deck contains, how a reading works and how to begin without assuming predictive certainty.
How to read tarot
A practical sequence for questions, positions, images, interpretation and a useful next step.
Asking useful tarot questions
Frame questions around context and agency rather than secret knowledge or guaranteed outcomes.
Upright and reversed cards
Choose a consistent reversal method and keep the card’s image and position central.
Interpreting tarot cards together
Combine positions, repeated motifs and contrasts without turning a spread into an arbitrary story.
Understanding court cards
Read Page, Knight, Queen and King as people, roles or approaches without fixed demographic labels.
Numbers in tarot
Use printed ranks and optional digit reduction while keeping card imagery and personal numerology distinct.
Rider–Waite–Smith, Marseille and Thoth
Compare imagery, numbering and court titles across three influential tarot traditions.
