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Tarot Card Meanings Cheat Sheet

All 78 cards, one line each — bookmark this before your next reading.

How to Read a 3-Card Tarot Spread

Past-present-future vs. situation-obstacle-advice, and how to actually connect the three cards.

Reversed Tarot Cards: What They Really Mean

Blocked energy, delay, or internalised meaning — pick one approach and stay consistent.

How to Keep a Tarot Journal

What to write down after a reading, in what order, and why it matters.

Why Thoth Renamed the Tarot Court Cards (And RWS Didn't)

King, Queen, Knight, Page vs. Knight, Queen, Prince, Princess — the real Golden Dawn reasoning.

"Tzaddi Is Not the Star": Crowley's Documented Break From Tradition

Why Crowley swapped a Hebrew letter between The Emperor and The Star — on the word of his own scripture.

Why Strength and Justice Swapped Numbers Between Tarot Traditions

VIII and XI change places between Marseille and RWS — and the reason is astrology, not error.

The Popess and the Legend of Pope Joan

Why one of tarot's oldest cards shows a woman in a papal tiara.

The Tarot Card With No Name

Death is the only Marseille card printed with no title at all — and why that might be the point.

The Tower: Why It's Called "The House of God"

La Maison Dieu literally meant a medieval hospice for the dying.

Why Crowley Renamed Seven Tarot Cards — And What Each Name Really Means

Strength became Lust, Judgement became The Aeon — every rename encodes Thelemic doctrine.

The Astrology Hidden in Every Tarot Card's Number

Every numbered Minor Arcana card carries its own unique planet-and-sign attribution.

Why Old Tarot Pip Cards Have No Pictures (And What Changed in 1909)

No deck illustrated its numbered cards before Pamela Colman Smith redrew tarot forever.