Free tarot, read on the spot
Write your question, choose a spread and shuffle: the cards come from a seventy-eight-card deck shuffled there and then, and the reading appears straight afterwards, written out in full. Each card is read in its own position and then the spread as a whole, which is where a reading truly comes alive.
The tarot reading is free and needs no account or sign-up. The table opens on Three Cards — past, present and future — the best place to begin; in the list of spreads you will also find the Celtic Cross, The Horseshoe, the Tree of Life and others, each with its own question.
You can draw with the Sol da Alma Tarot, painted from scratch for this website, or with the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith. If you wish to go deeper, you can order an in-depth PDF report at the end; the reading on screen is always free.
How to do your free tarot reading
Everything happens on the same table, in three steps. First choose the deck and the spread — if you are not sure which, leave it on Three Cards. Then write your question: the more concrete it is, the clearer the answer; ‘what should I know about the job offer I have received?’ tells the cards far more than ‘what about work?’. Finally, shuffle and draw the cards, one at a time or all at once.
The reading appears written out straight afterwards. Each card is read in the place where it fell, and then the spread as a whole, because it is in the conversation between the cards that the spread gives its answer. You can click on any card to see what it represents and what that position means.
The two tarot decks
The Sol da Alma Tarot was painted from scratch for this website: seventy-eight cards with the same warm light as the painting at the top of the page. The Rider-Waite-Smith, from 1909, is the best-known deck in the world and the one most tarot books are based on. Both have the twenty-two Major Arcana and the fifty-six Minor Arcana, and the reading is the same — choose whichever appeals more to your eye.
A few cards may come out reversed, but only a few, as happens at a real table. A reversed card is not a bad card: it says that its force is blocked, delayed or turned inwards.
Which spread to choose
Three Cards is the way in. The Cross, with five, answers a well-defined question; the Marseille Cross weighs pros and cons; The Decision compares two paths; The Horseshoe follows a matter with a history; The Relationship looks at two people; The Pyramid sorts out a vague question. The Celtic Cross and the Tree of Life, with ten cards, are for the big questions. Each one has its own page, with a diagram of the table and what each position means.
Frequently asked questions
Is the free online tarot really free?
Yes. The spread and the reading written on screen are free, with no account, no sign-up and no limit on the number of readings. Only the in-depth PDF report, which is optional, is paid for.
Are the cards drawn at random?
They are. The complete deck is shuffled the moment you press the button, and the cards come out in the order they landed — just as at a table with paper cards.
Who writes the reading?
The reading is written on the spot from the cards that came out, the positions they fell in and your question, following the traditional meanings of the Tarot. Every spread gives its own reading.
Is my data stored?
The free reading does not ask for your name or email. Only those who order the PDF report give an email address, so that they can receive it and download it again.
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