Major Arcana
The Major Arcana consists of 22 cards that represent life's most significant spiritual lessons and archetypal energies. These powerful cards speak to universal human experiences, major life themes, and profound transformations.
The Fool's Journey
The Major Arcana tells the story of The Fool's Journey—a narrative of spiritual evolution from innocence and new beginnings (The Fool) to completion and enlightenment (The World). Each card along this path represents a universal archetype or life lesson that we all encounter.
When Major Arcana cards appear in a reading, they often indicate that the situation at hand is significant and may involve important life lessons, karmic influences, or pivotal moments of transformation. These cards carry more weight than Minor Arcana cards and deserve special attention.
Each Major Arcana card can appear upright or reversed, offering nuanced guidance depending on its orientation. Click any card below to explore its full upright and reversed meanings.
All 22 Major Arcana Cards
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The Fool
The Fool beckons you toward new beginnings with childlike wonder and fearless curiosity, inviting you to embrace the unknown and trust in the journey ahead.
The Magician
The Magician represents manifestation, skill, and the power to transform vision into reality through focused will and resourcefulness.
The High Priestess
The High Priestess embodies intuition, mystery, and the sacred wisdom that dwells in the spaces between the visible and invisible worlds.
The Empress
The Empress embodies abundant creativity, nurturing energy, and the fertile power of bringing ideas, projects, and life itself into physical manifestation.
The Emperor
The Emperor represents structure, authority, and the power of disciplined action to create stability and achieve ambitious goals.
The Hierophant
The Hierophant represents tradition, spiritual wisdom, and the value of learning from established teachings, communities, and sacred rituals.
The Lovers
The Lovers represents deep connection, alignment of values, and the sacred choices that shape our relationships and sense of wholeness.
The Chariot
The Chariot represents triumph through willpower, focused determination, and the ability to harness opposing forces toward a unified goal.
Strength
Strength represents quiet courage, compassion, and the power of gentle persistence to tame our wildest impulses and overcome formidable challenges.
The Hermit
The Hermit represents sacred solitude, inner wisdom, and the journey inward to find truth that can only be discovered in stillness and contemplation.
Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune represents life's natural cycles, destiny's turning points, and the understanding that change is the only constant in existence.
Justice
Justice represents fairness, truth, accountability, and the understanding that our actions create consequences that return to us with perfect balance.
The Hanged Man
The Hanged Man represents surrender, perspective shift, and the wisdom gained through willing sacrifice and patient suspension.
Death
Death represents profound transformation, necessary endings, and the rebirth that becomes possible only when we release what no longer serves our evolution.
Temperance
Temperance represents balance, patience, and the art of blending opposites to create harmony and sustainable moderation in all things.
The Devil
The Devil represents bondage, temptation, and the chains we forge through unconscious patterns, addiction, and material attachment.
The Tower
The Tower represents sudden upheaval, revelation, and the necessary destruction of false structures built on unstable foundations.
The Star
The Star represents hope, renewal, and the quiet faith that emerges after crisis, offering healing and a vision of possibility.
The Moon
The Moon represents illusion, intuition, and the mysterious realm between conscious awareness and the hidden depths of the subconscious mind.
The Sun
The Sun represents joy, vitality, clarity, and the radiant confidence that comes from standing fully in your authentic light.
Judgement
Judgement represents awakening, reckoning, and the moment of clarity when you're called to rise into your highest potential and make amends for the past.
The World
The World represents completion, integration, and the fulfillment that comes from finishing one cycle and standing ready to begin the next.
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