What does your own chart say about you?
Choose love, work or purpose. Your reading is written from your chart. Your reading uses your own birth details.
Walk through Alex’s whole example first
The Road of AgesSee the turning points of your whole life, from your birth date
See your road's shape
Prefer to explore first?
The Road of AgesThe turning points of your whole life, from your own chart
Walk my road
Public Oracle chamber · The Great Almanac
Tarot Reading
Shuffle the full 78-card deck, draw your own cards, and read each one in its place.
The instrument
Tarot Reading
Your cards, drawn by you
Tarot ReadingPreparing the instrument…
This one asks for nothing about you: the deck is shuffled and your cards are read in your browser, and a question you hold in mind stays on this page.
Tap a dotted term to learn its meaning without losing your place. You can also browse the full lexicon.
About this tool and its method
A real deck, all 78 cards
The Almanac tarot follows the Rider-Waite-Smith order: twenty-two cards of the Major Arcana, from the Fool to the World, and fifty-six of the Minor Arcana in four suits. Wands carry will and work, Cups feeling and connection, Swords thought and conflict, Pentacles body, money and craft. Every card is engraved in the house hand; its numeral and its title are set in type, as a printed deck sets them.
How the draw works
The whole deck is shuffled with your browser’s own cryptographic random numbers, so every order of the 78 cards is equally likely, and each card may fall reversed, as many readers allow. The shuffled deck is fanned face down and you take your cards from it yourself, or let the deck deal. Nothing is fetched and nothing is sent: the question, the cards and the reading stay on this page.
The three spreads
- Card of the day
- One card to carry through today. It is kept on this device, so returning today shows the same card until tomorrow.
- Past, present, next step
- Three cards: what has shaped the situation, where you stand now, and the step or attitude the reading points toward.
- The Celtic Cross
- The full traditional spread of ten cards, laid as the cross and the staff, for a question that needs room.
What this tool does
Hold a question in mind, choose the card of the day, three cards for past, present and next step, or the ten-card Celtic Cross, and draw from the shuffled 78-card deck yourself. Each card is read in its place, upright or reversed, and the spread is read as a whole. Membership opens the tarot, as it opens every instrument; no birth details are needed.
A tarot reading is a mirror held up to a question: the cards name what is in view, and the reading is what you make of it.
Explore another reading
Continue with Ask the Oracle to add another perspective to your Almanac.
Open Ask the OracleExplore another reading
Continue with Theme of the Day to add another perspective to your Almanac.
Open Theme of the DayGo deeper
One membership, every instrument
Every instrument,
from your own chart.
- A personal reading about love, work or purpose, written from your chart
- A practical next step to consider
- It opens with 7 days free, with the AI Oracle and daily guidance
7 days free, $0 today. Your reading is written from your chart, then opens with a Seeker trial: payment details required, then $12/month. We email you 2 days before it ends; cancel on your billing page before then and you pay nothing.
Common questions
Who can use the tarot reading?
The tarot is one of the Almanac’s instruments, opened by membership like the others. Members draw the card of the day, three cards, and the full ten-card Celtic Cross, as often as they like.
Can tarot predict the future?
The Almanac reads tarot as reflection rather than prediction. A card names a theme worth looking at in your situation and asks a question of it; the choices that follow stay yours.
What does a reversed card mean?
A reversed card turns its theme inward, or shows it blocked, delayed or overdone. It is read as the same card from another side, not as a bad omen.
Why does my card of the day stay the same?
The card of the day is drawn once a day and kept on this device, so a reading is not redrawn until it says what you hoped. A new card is ready tomorrow.
