Describe.
What is visibly in the image? Start with a colour, a gesture or an object.
Psychic.cards / A visual reading room
Look at the card.
Notice the story.
Make it a question.
Explore tarot meanings and the personal associations a symbol brings up. An interpretation can offer a perspective without deciding your future for you.
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A familiar
A familiar
deck structure.
Many tarot decks contain 22 Major Arcana cards and 56 Minor Arcana cards. Imagery and names can vary between decks. The V&A’s history of tarot introduces the cards and their changing uses.
An original reflection exercise
Three ways to look.
Associate.
What does it bring to mind for you? Name the personal connection.
Consider.
What useful question follows? Keep it about a choice you can make.
From the card library
The Ten of Wands:
what are you carrying?
Explore interpretations around responsibility and overload, then consider which task you could finish, share, postpone or decline.
Read the Ten of Wands guide →
Choose a reading with clear terms.
Check the format, price, duration and privacy arrangements. Ask how a reader handles uncertainty and a question they cannot answer.
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Find your next guide
Major Arcana
Explore 22 broad symbolic themes.
Cups
Feelings, connection and imagination.
Wands
Initiative, creativity and effort.
Swords
Thought, language and decisions.
Pentacles
Resources, skills and practical care.
Tarot spreads
Choose a clear layout for your question.
From the reading room