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Learn tarot from the beginning

Four free guides that teach the deck in the order it makes sense in: structure first, then meanings, then spreads.

Tarot has a reputation for being hard to learn, and the standard approach earns it: 78 separate meanings, learned by rote, until you give up. The guides here take a different route. The deck has a structure — four suits, ten repeating numbers, a court, and 22 named cards that stand apart — and a structure is something you can actually teach.

Once the structure is in place, most meanings follow from it: you can work out what an unfamiliar card is saying from its suit and its number before you've studied it directly. The four guides below cover that skill in order — the study method, the first-week practicalities, the deck's two halves, and how spreads work. They're written to be read in sequence, and each one stands on its own.

1. 01

   How to learn tarot

   Why studying the deck's structure beats memorizing card meanings, and the four-step order that gets you reading.

   4 min read · Start here
2. 02

   Tarot for beginners

   Choosing a first deck, what you can skip, and a first one-card reading you can do tonight.

   4 min read
3. 03

   Major Arcana vs Minor Arcana

   The two halves of the deck carry different kinds of meaning. What that changes when you read.

   3 min read
4. 04

   How to read a tarot spread

   Positions, the three-card layout, and a full worked example read card by card.

   3 min read