Major Arcana

The Fool

• Watch for new projects and new beginnings
• Prepare to take something on faith
• Something new comes your way; go for it

• freedom
• faith
• inexperience
• innocence

Upright

• Freeing yourself from limitation
• Expressing joy and youthful vigor
• Being open-minded
• Taking a leap of faith
• Attuning yourself to your instincts
• Being eager or curious
• Exploring your potential
• Embracing innovation and change

Reversed

• Being gullible and naive
• Taking unnecessary risks
• Failing to be serious when required
• Being silly or distracted
• Lacking experience
• Failing to honor well-established traditions and limits
• Behaving inappropriately

The Magician

• A powerful man may play a role in your day
• Your current situation must be seen as one element of a much larger plan

• capability
• empowerment
• activity

Upright

• Taking appropriate action
• Receiving guidance from a higher power
• Becoming a channel of divine will
• Expressing masculine energy in appropriate and constructive ways
• Being yourself in every way

Reversed

• Inflating your own ego
• Abusing talents
• Manipulating or deceiving others
• Being too aggressive
• Using cheap illusions to dazzle others
• Refusing to invest the time and effort needed to master your craft
• Taking shortcuts

High Priestess

• A mysterious woman arrives
• A sexual secret may surface
• Someone knows more than he or she will reveal

• intuition
• reflection
• purity
• initiation

Upright

• Listening to your feelings and intuitions
• Exploring unconventional spirituality
• Keeping secrets
• Being receptive
• Reflecting instead of acting
• Observing others
• Preserving purity

Reversed

• Being aloof
• Obsessing on secrets and conspiracies
• Rejecting guidance from spirit or intuition
• Revealing all
• Ignoring gut feelings
• Refusing to become involved, even when involvement is appropriate

The Empress

• Pregnancy is in the cards
• An opportunity to be involved in luxurious sexuality is coming
• Beware a tendency toward addiction

• fertility
• productivity
• ripeness
• nurturing

Upright

• Nurturing yourself and others
• Bearing fruit
• Celebrating your body
• Bearing (literal or figurative) children
• Reveling in luxury
• Mothering those around you in positive ways
• Enjoying your sexuality
• Getting things done

Reversed

• Overindulging
• Being greedy
• Smothering someone with attention
• Debilitating someone by being overprotective
• Inhibiting productivity by obsessing on productivity
• Being overcome by addictive behavior

The Emperor

• A father figure arrives
• A new employer or authority figure will give you orders
• Expect discipline or correction in the near future

• authority
• regulation
• direction
• structure

Upright

• Exercising authority
• Defining limits
• Directing the flow of work
• Communicating clear guidelines
• Being in control of yourself and others
• Tempering aggressive masculinity with wisdom and experience

Reversed

• Micromanaging
• Crushing the creativity of others with a rigid, iron-fisted approach
• Insisting on getting your own way
• Assuming a dictatorial mindset
• Using overt force to achieve your goals and maintain order

The Hierophant

• Expect to be caught in a misdeed and punished accordingly
• Pray for forgiveness and confess wrongdoings
• A more experienced man, spiritual leader, or father figure will come into your life

• guidance
• knowledge
• revelation
• belief

Upright

• Teaching or guiding others
• Searching for the truth
• Asking for guidance from a higher power
• Acknowledging the wisdom and experience of others
• Taking vows
• Engaging in heartfelt rituals
• Volunteering

Reversed

• Using experience as a means of manipulating or misguiding others
• Being dogmatic
• Favoring tradition over what is expedient or necessary
• Going through the motions of empty rituals
• Concealing wisdom
• Restricting access to spiritual truths or the gods

The Lovers

• A new personal or professional relationship blossoms
• Sexual opportunities abound
• Unexpectedly, a friend becomes a lover

• love
• passion
• unity
• choice

Upright

• Being in love
• Showing your love to others
• Expressing passion or romantic feelings
• Aligning yourself with groups or like-minded others
• Bringing people together
• Making well-informed decisions

Reversed

• Debilitating passion
• Allowing an unhealthy desire for love to motivate destructive behavior
• Disrupting unity
• Working against the best interests of those who care about you
• Ill-informed decisions

The Chariot

• Victory is a certainty
• Move ahead with all plans
• Beware the jealousy of others

• advancement
• victory
• triumph
• success

Upright

• Breaking through barriers
• Moving forward with confidence and authority
• Reaching the pinnacle of success
• Basking in the glory of achievement
• Guiding an effort to total victory
• Establishing yourself as a worthy leader

Reversed

• Resting on laurels
• Riding roughshod over the feelings or expectations of others
• Focusing more on past successes than future opportunities
• Failing to rein in impulsive behavior

Strength

• Your self-control will be tested
• A woman will seek to change her partner or lover
• You are a strong, capable person

• discipline
• boldness
• self-discipline
• power
• vitality

Upright

• Imposing restrictions on yourself for your own benefit
• Bringing your passions under the control of reason
• Resisting impulses that work against your best interests
• Taking bold action

Reversed

• Indulging weakness, even when you know it will damage your health and happiness
• Languishing in addiction
• Allowing your instincts to tame and conquer you
• Failing to take a stand when necessary

The Hermit

• A period of loneliness begins
• One partner in a relationship departs
• A search for love or money proves fruitless

• solitude
• experience
• stillness
• withdrawal

Upright

• Becoming or seeking out a guru
• Going on a retreat
• Recharging spiritual or creative batteries
• Lighting the way for those with less experience
• Stepping back to gain perspective

Reversed

• Being a loner
• Fearing contact with others
• Becoming a know-it-all
• Inflating claims of expertise
• Hiding your skills and talents out of fear of unworthiness

The Wheel

• Some events are in the hands of heaven
• You've lived through this before
• What happened then?

• luck
• randomness
• cycles
• karma
• fate
• revolution

Upright

• Allowing events to unfold
• Seeing the larger pattern in everyday events
• Trusting your luck
• Watching for cycles
• Believing that "what goes around, comes around"

Reversed

• Losing money gambling
• Refusing to do your part to bring a plan to fruition
• Taking a fatalistic approach to life
• Fighting the natural course of events

Justice

• A legal verdict will be rendered soon
• Someone is making a decision
• You need to get the facts

• balance
• law
• fairness
• objectivity

Upright

• Making an objective decision
• Weighing an issue carefully before taking action
• Appropriately scaling your reaction to a situation
• Getting all the facts
• Considering evidence
• Deliberating

Reversed

• Delivering harsh criticism
• Obsessing on rules and regulations
• Playing by the book even when it is destructive or counterproductive to do so
• Confusing snap decisions with timely action
• Playing favorites

The Hanged Man

• A traitor is revealed
• One of your friends is working against you
• Change your ways or suffer the consequences

• enlightenment
• sacrifice
• perspective
• suspension
• reversals

Upright

• Seeing growth opportunities in unpleasant events
• Experiencing a dramatic change in personal perspective
• Making the best of an unforeseen change in your life or work
• Suspending disbelief
• Making sacrifices

Reversed

• Being untrue to yourself and your values
• Refusing to make sacrifices when appropriate
• Refusing to adapt to new situations
• Blaming others
• Profiting at the expense of others

Death

• A relationship or illness ends suddenly
• Limit travel and risk-taking
• General gloom and doom

• ending
• conclusion
• transition
• passage
• departure

Upright

• Bringing an unpleasant phase of life to an end
• Recognizing and celebrating the conclusion of something
• Putting bad habits to rest
• Becoming a new person
• Leaving one person, place, or thing for another
• Letting go

Reversed

• Obsessing on death and dying
• Refusing to give up old habits or unhealthy relationships
• Insisting that everything and everyone should stay the same forever
• Failing to take good care of yourself

Temperance

• Someone's using drugs or alcohol to excess
• It's time to get back on that diet

• blending
• synthesis
• mediation
• combination
• harmony

Upright

• Bringing opposites together
• Moderating your actions or emotions
• Finding middle ground
• Reaching compromises
• Synthesizing solutions that please everyone involved
• Using the old to make something new

Reversed

• Going to extremes
• Disrupting group efforts
• Ignoring healthy approaches to life
• Becoming an addict
• Practicing gluttony
• Tearing something or someone apart
• Breaking alliances

The Devil

• Adultery and unfaithfulness
• A string of extremely bad luck is coming your way
• Beware evil influences and wolves in sheep's clothing

• shadow
• materialism
• bondage
• delusion

Upright

• Appreciating the luxuries that life has to offer
• Being comfortable in your own skin
• Enjoying your sexuality
• Splurging on an expensive personal item
• Embracing the fact that everyone has a darker side
• Dealing with unhealthy impulses in healthy ways

Reversed

• Putting excessive emphasis on appearances
• Always wanting more
• Valuing possessions more than people or relationships
• Allowing base instincts to govern your life
• Being selfish
• Attributing your own dark impulses to outside forces or other people

The Tower

• Impending disaster
• Cancel plans and reverse decisions
• Someone wants to take you down a notch or two
• Don't hold back; say what you really mean

• demolition
• upheaval
• deconstruction
• disaster
• destruction

Upright

• Breaking out of old, confining habits and mindsets
• Clearing the way for new growth
• Dispelling the influence of an inflated ego
• Getting back to basics
• Stripping away harmful illusions
• Receiving sudden insight

Reversed

• Clinging to traditions that repress growth
• Engaging in willful blindness
• Rejecting evidence that change is needed
• Ignoring guidance from a higher power
• Maliciously engaging in destructive behavior

The Star

• Get an astrology chart drawn up
• Someone is a little too starstruck
• What's happening now has long been fore-ordained

• hope
• optimism
• openness
• certainty
• faith
• longing
• truth

Upright

• Hoping for the best
• Believing good things happen to good people
• Seeing events in the best possible light
• Adopting a generous spirit
• Seeking guidance from above
• Embracing possibility over probability

Reversed

• Denying unpleasant truths
• Denying personal accountability and saying, "Things just happen!"
• Ignoring signs and omens
• Preferring illusion to reality
• Spreading pessimism and stinginess of spirit

The Moon

• Watch for problems at the end of the month
• Someone you know needs to howl at the moon more often
• Someone is about to change his or her mind about an important decision

• mystery
• fantasy
• imagination
• dreams
• uncertainty

Upright

• Enjoying healthy fantasies and daydreams
• Using your imagination
• Practicing magic or celebrating the magic of everyday life
• Attuning yourself to the cycles of nature
• Embracing the unknown

Reversed

• Becoming unable to separate fantasy from reality
• Suffering from delusions
• Losing your appreciation for the fantastic or magical
• Adopting a ruthlessly logical mindset
• Failing to appreciate life's mysteries

The Sun

• Everything's coming up roses (or sunflowers, whatever the case may be)
• Whatever's on your mind, go for it because you can't lose today

• joy
• brilliance
• validation
• attention
• energy

Upright

• Seeing things clearly
• Experiencing intense joy
• Celebrating your own successes
• Knowing you're good at what you do
• Gaining recognition for your personal genius

Reversed

• Being dazzled by your own accomplishments
• Becoming absorbed in your own self-image
• Feeling rushed and distracted
• Exerting yourself to the point of exhaustion
• Overstating your abilities or misrepresenting your achievements

Judgement

• An old issue you thought was over will come up again today
• Get ready for huge changes: break-ups, sudden calls from old friends, and unexpected setbacks
• God's trying to get your attention

• revival
• renewal
• resurrection
• evaluation
• invitation

Upright

• Receiving a wake-up call
• Discovering a new purpose in life
• Becoming totally and completely yourself
• Receiving a well-deserved reward
• Passing an evaluation or examination
• Welcoming the start of a new phase of life

Reversed

• Being weighed in the balances and found wanting
• Failing to measure up to a well-defined standard
• Being caught goofing off or misbehaving
• Failing to prepare for an examination you know is coming
• Rejecting an opportunity to reinvent yourself

The World

• Winning the lottery
• Getting your heart's desire
• Having everything you ever imagined having

• wholeness
• integration
• totality
• completeness
• fullness

Upright

• Having it all
• Knowing and loving yourself as completely as possible
• Seeing the interconnection of all things and people
• Enhancing your perspective
• Living life to its fullest
• Understanding the meaning of life

Reversed

• Allowing greed and envy to prevent you from enjoying what you do possess
• Failing to see the larger design in ordinary events
• Believing that everything that exists can be touched, counted, or measured
• Failing to see the divine reflected in those around you