Three cards in a line - past, present and future - drawn from the complete 78-card deck rather than a shortened one, so the suits are in play alongside the trumps and each card can fall upright or reversed. Every meaning is grounded in A. E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), cross-read against Mathers (1888), with the source shown on each card. The draw is random: press again and you get a different spread, which the page states beside the cards instead of describing a shuffle as destiny. No birth details, no sign-up and nothing stored.
The draw is random - your question does not change the cards, it only holds you steady while you read the three positions against one subject. For a reading fixed to your details, use the personalised report.
Further in: the ten-card Celtic Cross, the personalised tarot report or the meanings of all 78 cards.
Three cards are laid in a line and read in order. What the third position means is where most three-card readings go wrong: it is the direction of travel if nothing changes, a tendency rather than an event, and the position text on the page says so rather than promising an outcome.
All 78 cards are in the shuffle, so a spread of three suit cards is as ordinary as a spread of three trumps - and it usually tells you more, because the suits name the department of life the matter belongs to. Under the cards, a short census reports what fell: how many trumps, how many reversals, how many court cards and how the suits split. Those are counts side by side, never added into a score, because no source weights them against one another.
Every card can land upright or reversed, and each carries a separate written reading for the way it fell - the reversed text is a meaning in its own right, not the upright one with a minus sign. On screen the card face rotates, exactly as it would on a table, and the orientation is stated in words so it survives for a screen reader.
Read the three together rather than one at a time; the sequence is the reading. If you want the same three cards to still be there when you come back, this page cannot give you that - it reshuffles on every press - but the card of the day is fixed for a whole day and the personalised report is fixed to the details you enter.
Every upright and reversed meaning in the spread is grounded in A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part II, cross-read against S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Tarot (1888), and the source is printed on each card. The wording is this app's own: Waite's divinatory paragraphs are telegraphic lists of nouns, written by a man who says in the same breath that he prints them under protest, and pasted into a product they would read as authority. Written out as plain sentences and cited, they read as what they are, a recorded convention with a name and a date on it.
The trumps also carry an astrological attribution taken from Paul Foster Case, An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot (1920). Where the sources disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than settled silently: Mathers treats a reversal as a mechanical inversion and Waite reads it more softly, and the card-meanings page sets out both. The deck itself is this app's own 78-card set, published under a house name and shipping no artwork, because the drawings usually reproduced online are not public domain in every country this site is reachable from.
No. Unlike a horoscope or kundli, this reading needs no birth date, time or place - you simply draw three cards. Nothing is stored and no sign-up is required.
All 78: the 22 trumps and the 56 suit cards across wands, cups, swords and pentacles, each able to fall upright or reversed. A card cannot repeat inside one spread. The suits carry the subject - enterprise, feeling, thought and money - which is often what makes a three-card reading legible.
It has its own written meaning, printed on the card rather than inferred from the upright one. Broadly a reversal shows the theme blocked, delayed or turned inward, and it is not automatically bad. Waite and Mathers disagree about how hard a reversal bites, and the card-meanings page sets out both readings instead of picking one silently.
The upright and reversed readings are grounded in A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part II, and cross-read against S. L. MacGregor Mathers, The Tarot (1888); the trumps' astrological attributions come from Paul Foster Case, An Introduction to the Study of the Tarot (1920). All three are public domain. The prose on each card is this app's own summary of those meanings, and the source is named on the card.
For educational purposes. Astrological interpretations are traditional and not a substitute for professional advice.