tarot card meanings list with the 22 Major Arcana cards, followed by the 56 Minor Arcana cards.
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The Major Arcana Tarot Cards List
The Fool
The Fool tarot card is the number 0 of the Major Arcana, which stands for unlimited potential. To see the Fool card generally indicates that you’re on the verge of an unexpected and exciting new adventure in your daily life. This may require you to take a blind leap of faith.
There will be a rewarding experience that will contribute to your growth as a human being. The new adventure could be literal and may involve traveling to a new land or territories you’ve never visited.
Upright: New beginnings, new ideas, innocence, and adventure
Reversed: Recklesness, fearlessness, and risk
Yes or No: Yes
The Magician
The Magician tarot card reveals how determination and willpower can realize your wishes and desires. When this card appears in your reading, you can be assured that you have the drive to make your dreams happen.
Remember: You’re powerful! And the outer world will follow if you create your inner world. Yet, you have to focus and concentrate on achieving your dream. Get rid of any discretions and make a detailed plan to stay on track.
Upright: Willpower, creation, inner strength, and manifestation
Reversed: Manipulation and illusions
Yes or No: Yes
The High Priestess
When the High Priestess appears upright in a Tarot reading, she usually indicates a time for learning and listening to your intuition rather than prioritizing your intellect and conscious mind.
The High Priestess tells you to slow down, reflect on what you’ve learned, and acquire even more knowledge before deciding or taking action.
Her wisdom encourages you to relinquish the grip of anxiety over the result. Instead, place your faith in the discernment of these metaphorical gatekeepers.
Lastly, the High Priestess figure embodies the serenity of trust and the power of surrender, inviting you to step into the unknown with a courageous and open heart. Listen to your inner voice!
Upright: Inner voice, unconscious, divine feminine, and security
Reversed: Repressed feelings, withdrawal, and silence
Yes or No: Yes
The Empress
In a reading, the upright Empress tarot card calls on you to connect with your feminine side. This can be translated in many ways – think of creativity, elegance, sensuality, fertility, and nurturing. She tells you to be kind to yourself and search for beauty and happiness.
The Empress often brings strong bursts of creative or artistic energy. This creative energy may be in a painting or art project and other forms of expressing yourself creatively, like music or drama.
Upright: Femininity, nurturing, fertility, abundance, and celebration
Reversed: Dependence, smothering, and emptiness
Yes or No: Yes
THE EMPEROR
As the counterpart of the Empress, the Emperor signifies the husband who is constant and trustworthy. He is confident, in control of his emotions, and an example of masculine energy. He is the paternal figure who brings structure and security, creates rules and systems, and conveys knowledge.
As a ruler, he leads with a firm hand and demands respect and authority. With careful planning, a highly organized approach, and perseverance, the Emperor can overcome any problem.
This new level of mastery won’t just happen. You have to pursue your goals similarly to how the Emperor does, structured, strategically, and with much perseverance.
Upright: Authority, structure, a father figure, and change
Reversed: Excessive control, rigidity, and domination
Yes or No: Yes
The Hierophant
When the Hierophant tarot card is upright in a reading, it represents a necessity to follow existing conventions, rules, or a well-established procedure.
It advises you to maintain conventional boundaries that are considered a standard method. Rather than being inventive and breaking norms, you will be familiarized with certain traditions, beliefs, and systems that have existed for a long time.
The Hierophant embodies a customary set of spiritual beliefs and is frequently associated with religion and other formal ideologies. Thus, this card suggests that you learn the necessary values from a trusted source such as a mentor or a spiritual counselor.
Upright: Spiritual wisdom, tradition, conformity, morality, and ethics
Reversed: Rebellion, subversiveness, freedom, and personal beliefs
Yes or No: Neutra
The Lovers
The Lovers tarot card in the upright position can imply that you have major life-changing choices or dilemmas. Temptation is often part of that choice or dilemma.
You may feel unsure about your direction or who to trust. Or you may have to choose between contradicting and equally unifying options. The Lovers in Tarot advises you not to go for the easy road (temptation).
First, gather the information you need to make the right decision. If you face the problem and contemplate it wisely, it will lead you to greater things.
Upright: Love, harmony, partnerships, and choices
Reversed: Disbalance, one-sidedness, and disharmony
Yes or No: Yes
The Chariot
When the upright Chariot tarot card shows up in a tarot reading, it tells you that now is the time to get what you want. Consider this card as a sign of encouragement.
The Chariot is about overcoming obstacles and achieving goals through determination, focus, and willpower. You will feel motivated, ambitious, and in control.
This will help you get a stagnant situation moving again and overcome all the challenges in your path.
Keep focused and believe in your abilities, and you will achieve your goal. The Chariot tells you that a triumph awaits you, and you’re fully in control.
This may mean you must compete with others or find yourself in a situation that feels like a battle. You’re pulled in opposite directions or feel like your strength and confidence are being tested.
Upright: Direction, control, willpower, determination, success, action, and security
Reversed: Lack of control, opposition, lack of direction, and self-discipline
Yes or No: Yes
Strength
As the name suggests, the upright Strength tarot card represents strength, courage, persuasion, and patience. It tells you you have the power and strength to overcome any obstacle – just like the Chariot.
However, you’ll need to act gracefully and sensibly rather than just using brutal force when pulling the strength.
The card also tells you you can stay positive and calm and think logically in stressful situations that test your patience and strength.
Strength signifies that you can obtain true control of a situation through compassion, cunning, or understanding, not simply the power to impose your will.
The Strength tarot card indicates that you’re persevering and can achieve anything you want. You’re confident and don’t have problems being yourself and speaking up.
You’re committed to what you must do and go about it very well and maturely. Keep behaving this way, and you will succeed in anything you want.
Upright: Strength, courage, compassion, focus, persuasion, and influence
Reversed: Self-doubt, weakness, insecurity, low energy, and raw emotion
Yes or No: Yes
The Hermit
In the upright position, the Hermit’s a compelling card. Just as beacons of light often guide ships to the shore, this sage is ushering in a period of personal growth and exploration. The Hermit represents wisdom earned by seeking the highest truth.
Often, looking for answers requires time alone with few distractions. It requires introspection and concentrating less on the senses.
Upright: Wisdom, soul searching, solitude, spiritual enlightenment, receiving/giving guidance, and intuition
Reversed: Loneliness, isolation, paranoia, sadness, being overcome or paralyzed by fear
Yes or No: Yes
Although this can initially seem a little scary, committing to a personal quest for truth can be one of life’s most rewarding experiences.
Wheel of Fortune
Jupiter, the planet of good fortune and expansion, rules the Wheel of Fortune. If the Wheel of Fortune tarot card arrives upright, you’re lucky.
Whether you believe in destiny or not, things are lining up for your benefit. Think of surprising offers and new opportunities. Your vision will also increase as life’s tempo cranks up.
The Wheel of Fortune can also reveal psychic abilities within you or someone close. Consider this a chance to discover more about yourself and listen to your gut.
Now that your energy aligns with your spirit guides, angels, and other helpers, manifest your dreams. You can’t control the powers of the universe, but you can grow your understanding of your role in this life and the universe.
Just remember that there’s nothing to fear. Everything will work out according to divine intervention and timing.
Upright: Chance, destiny and fate, karma, turning points, and a resolved conflict
Reversed: Upheaval, lousy luck, unwelcome changes, and setbacks
Yes or No: Yes
Justice
In the upright position, the Justice tarot card represents cause, effect, and balanced thought and action.
Sometimes we find ourselves the victims of someone else’s malicious intent. If you have been wronged in any way, Justice arrives to restore balance and order.
This isn’t to say that things will turn out as you want. However, pulling this card in reading supports the adage “All’s well that ends well.”
Upright: Fairness, integrity, legal disputes, cause and effect, and life lessons
Reversed: Injustice, dishonesty, failure to take responsibility, deceitful practices, and negative karma
Yes or No: Neutral
The Hanged man
The Hanged Man represents ‘the waiting game,’ often a part of life progression.
Although we are rarely happy about being stuck in limbo, there are times when nothing else can be done, and we are forced to be still, according to the Hanged Man. This often requires sacrificing people and things we would rather hold on to.
The Hanged Man tarot card wants you to know that sometimes, we must accept a loss for the greater good. Acceptance and letting go are key if you ever want to move forward.
Upright: Letting go, sacrificing, pausing to reflect, uncertainty, and spiritual awakening
Reversed: Discontentment, stagnation, negativity, no solution, and fear of sacrifice
Yes or No: Maybe
Death
One of the reasons that the Death card is such a powerful one in the Upright position is because it carries so many different meanings.
For many readings, the Death Tarot card signifies completing a chapter, putting the past behind you, and cutting out what is unnecessary. It can also signify a transition or middle ground between one phase of life and the next.
The key is to welcome the Death card in a tarot spread instead of avoiding it. What path is number thirteen trying to point you toward? After all, there is no new beginning without an ending.
Upright: Ending of a cycle, transitions, getting rid of excess, powerful movement, resolutions, and intuition
Reversed: Resisting change, fear of new beginnings, dependency, and negative patterns
Yes or No: Yes
Temperance
Avoid all extreme situations when pulling the Temperance card in your reading.
Although there are times to ‘go for the jugular,’ this isn’t the angel’s message. Some situations are complicated and require patience and special care, even when your emotions tell you to react.
Temperance is a skill; like any other skill, practice makes perfect. Hold back from quick judgment. Resist the temptation to react immediately.
Are there areas of your life in which you need to find balance? Could you benefit from learning to remain calm during moments of distress? Temperance has arrived to help you find the strength to do so.
Upright: Balance, moderation, good health, cooperating with others, and diligence
Reversed: Imbalance, discord, hastiness, overindulgence, and risky behavior
Yes or No: Yes
Devil
The Devil is the card of illusion. Although you have total control of your life, beliefs, and choices, the Devil card symbolizes how addiction, depression, and unhealthy bonds can make you feel out of control.
Even social media, exercise, and work can be embodied by the Devil when in excess.
Regardless of the nature of your particular problem, the message of the Devil is clear: redirect your attention away from the satisfaction of desires and toward the things that matter.
Upright: Material focus, material possessions, trapped in bondage, addictions, depression, negative thinking, and betrayal
Reversed: Overcoming addiction, independence, reclaiming power, detachment, and freedom
Yes or No: No
The Tower
If we had to redesign the Tower card to a more modern-day representation, a crashing airplane would be an accurate alternative image.
The Tower signifies destruction. If you’ve received the Upright Tower tarot card, prepare for things to be leveled and dismantled.
As with all losses, this will probably be a painful process. It can also lead to a fresh start. Before making these positive changes, you must face the truth about a situation.
Are you prepared to take your blinders off and take this personal crisis head-on? Seeing through illusions and letting go of what you wish things to be is the very first step.
Upright: Intense and sudden change, release, painful loss, tragedy, and revelation
Reversed: Resisting change, avoiding tragedy, a narrow escape, and delaying what is inevitable
Yes or No: No
The star
The universe abundantly blesses you (we). We are continually attracting what we desire through our beliefs and thoughts. When the Star arrives in the upright position, it usually follows a difficult change or traumatic event.
Going through something challenging can take the wind out of our sails and cause us to feel like things will never be the same. This might be true.
Death, loss, heartbreak, and other painful events can change us forever. This doesn’t mean we can’t build something better. What is it that you’re trying to heal from? The Upright Star wants you to open your heart, realize your inner strength, and have faith that the best is yet to come.
Upright: Hope, renewal, creativity and inspiration, generosity, healing, and change
Reversed: Despair, lack of hope, creative block, boredom, and focusing on the negative
Yes or No: Yes
The moon
When the Moon tarot card appears in a reading upright, it can mean that you’re allowing your imagination and emotions to take control of your life. This may be linked to anxieties, fears, or self-deception.
The Moon falling in a reading is a warning in a sense. You’re the crawfish rising from the sea. If you trust your intuition and push forward, you will receive deliverance from what binds you. But first, you must be willing to face the reality of the situation.
The upright Moon meaning is also associated with illusions. There may be a hidden truth in your life that you need to uncover. The Moon cautions you from accepting what things seem to be.
It may be time to dig a little deeper and allow the light to shine upon the fallacies in your life.
Upright: Fear, anxiety, confusion, delusion, risk, and grief
Reversed: Overcoming fear, emotional stability, finding the truth, conquering anxiety, and gaining clarity
Yes or No: No
