Free tarot reading
This is a free three-card tarot reading, with no email and no sign-up. Ask a question or leave it open, and you get three cards from the full 78-card deck, each read for what's behind your question, where it stands now and what helps next.
What each of the three cards tells you
- What's behind this. The first card is the history of the question: what led here, and what you may be carrying into it.
- Where it stands now. The second card is the present, and usually the one to read first. It names the energy around the question today.
- What helps next. The third card gives you the card's advice, so you leave the reading with something to do.
A worked example
Say you ask: what should I focus on in my relationship this month? You choose love as the focus, and the tool draws these three. Each line below is what the reading would give you.
- What's behind this: Knight of Cups, reversed. Reversed in love, the Knight of Cups can point to someone who's charming but unreliable, emotionally manipulative or prone to moodiness. It can also mean disappointment, a romantic gesture that falls flat or a promise broken. It asks you to look for consistency, not just charm.
- Where it stands now: Seven of Wands. In love, standing up for the relationship or for your own needs within it.
- What helps next: Knight of Swords. Act decisively, but listen first.
No one suit leads this spread, so the question touches several parts of your life at once. Start from the middle card and read outward.
How to ask
Open questions read best. "What should I focus on with him?" gives the cards more room than "Will he text me?", which suits the yes or no tool better. Keep it to one subject. If you're torn between two choices, ask about one, then ask again about the other.
The same question on the same day draws the same cards, so asking again won't change the answer. Come back tomorrow, or when something has really changed.
How to read reversed cards
About one card in four lies upside down. A reversed card isn't a bad card. Readers usually take it as the same subject turned inward: delayed, held back or overdone. The Three of Cups upright is friends together; reversed, it can be a friend you've been meaning to call.
What the suits are about
- Major arcana, 22 cards: the big themes and turning points.
- Wands, 14 cards: drive, ambition and what you want to start.
- Cups, 14 cards: love, feelings and relationships.
- Swords, 14 cards: thoughts, words and hard decisions.
- Pentacles, 14 cards: work, home and the practical side of life.
How the cards are drawn
Each card is drawn for today's date, your question and its place in the spread. A card already drawn can't come up twice, and each card has a one in four chance of being reversed. Counting each card upright and reversed, that gives 3,651,648 possible spreads. We don't keep your question: it goes in the form's body and is gone when the page is sent.
The deck
The cards are the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith under A. E. Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It is the deck most modern tarot books follow, and the meanings here follow Waite's own, with love and work readings written for today.