Free tool
Tarot Card Lookup
Any of the 78 cards by name — however you spell it — or a spread shuffled in your browser, as often as you like.
Look up a card
Type any card - "eight of wands", "8 of pentacles", "vii of wands", "queen of disks". No signup, no draw needed.
Or pull a spread
Shuffled in your browser, as many times as you like. Shows each card's catalogued meaning rather than a written reading.
Type the card however you say it
The deck calls one card 'Eight of Wands'. Almost nobody types that. People type '8 of wands', 'viii of wands', 'eight of coins' when they mean pentacles, 'queen of disks' when they mean the Queen of Pentacles, and often they append 'meaning' or 'reversed' on the end. All of those resolve here to the same card.
That is deliberate, and it is most of the work. The suits carry three or four names each depending on which deck tradition you learned - wands are staves, rods and batons; pentacles are coins and disks - and the ranks come in words, digits and Roman numerals. A lookup that only matched one spelling would fail the majority of real searches.
Majors work bare too: 'the magician' and 'magician' both land, as do 'the hermit', 'the devil' and the rest.
How to read your result
A looked-up card shows its headline sense and a handful of keywords for the orientation you asked about, then links to the full card page - which carries the long meanings, the imagery, the reversed reading and the questions the card tends to raise.
A pulled spread shows one card per position, and the position is half the meaning. The Three of Swords in a 'past' slot and the same card in an 'outcome' slot are not saying the same thing; the position label is printed on every card for that reason.
Upright and reversed are shown as separate readings rather than good and bad. A reversed card in most modern practice means the card's energy is blocked, internalised or overdone - not that its opposite is true.
A worked example
Type '8 of pentacles meaning' and the lookup drops 'meaning', reads '8' as the rank eight, maps 'pentacles' to its own suit, and returns the Eight of Pentacles. Type 'eight of coins reversed' and it does the same work through a different set of synonyms and lands on the same card, reversed.
Now pull a three-card spread. You get Past, Present and Future, each with its own card and orientation - and a shuffle seed printed underneath. That seed is the whole shuffle: the same seed always produces the same spread, which is how you can come back to a reading, or check that the shuffle is a shuffle and not a script.
Nothing in either path touches a server. The deck, the meanings and the shuffle all run in your browser, so you can pull as many spreads as you want.
Method and provenance
The deck is the Rider-Waite-Smith, 78 cards, and the card images on the full card pages are the public-domain 1909 scans rather than generated art.
The shuffle is a seeded Fisher-Yates over the full deck, with orientation decided from the same seed. Nothing is weighted, nothing is withheld, and no card is more likely than another. Printing the seed is the point: a shuffle you cannot inspect is just an assertion.
The meanings are the ones this site publishes across its 78 card pages, so a card reads identically here and there. Where a card's content is still pending review, the page says so rather than filling the gap.
This tool does not call our language model at all. The written readings on the daily draw do, and that is capped at one a day per visitor; this page has no cap because there is nothing to cap.
What this tool does not tell you
It does not predict anything, and tarot on this site is not framed as prediction. A spread is a prompt for thinking about a question, not a report on what will happen.
It does not write you a reading. It gives you the catalogued meaning of each card and the position it fell in; joining those into something about your situation is the part a person does - or, if you want it written, the daily draw does that with an actual reading.
It has no memory. Every shuffle is independent, and a spread you disliked is not a spread you can improve by pulling again - though nothing stops you, and the tool will not scold you for it the way a paid one might.
And it is not Vedic astrology. Tarot sits alongside the rest of this site rather than inside it; nothing here reads your chart, and no card means anything different because of your birth date.
Frequently asked
- Can I look up a card without doing a reading?
- Yes — that is what the top half of the page is for. Type the card's name and you get its meaning and a link to its full page. No draw, no birth details, no signup. It also accepts the spellings people actually use: '8 of wands', 'vii of wands', 'eight of coins', 'queen of disks'.
- What does 'reversed' mean?
- A card drawn upside down. In most modern practice a reversal means the card's energy is blocked, turned inward, delayed or overexpressed — not that the card's opposite is true. Each card page gives the upright and reversed senses separately so you can see how they differ rather than guessing at an inversion.
- Is the shuffle actually random?
- It is a seeded Fisher-Yates shuffle over the whole 78-card deck, run in your browser, with orientation decided from the same seed. No card is weighted and none is held back. The seed is printed under every spread, so the same seed always reproduces the same draw — which is how you can verify that the shuffle is doing what it claims.
- How many times can I pull?
- As often as you like. Nothing here calls a server, so there is nothing to meter. The written AI reading on the daily draw is capped at one per day per visitor, because that one does call a model — but the lookup and the spread on this page are not limited at all.
- Which deck is this?
- The Rider-Waite-Smith, all 78 cards, with the public-domain 1909 scans on the card pages. The suit names used throughout are wands, cups, swords and pentacles, but the lookup accepts the alternatives — staves, rods, chalices, coins, disks — because different traditions teach different names for the same suit.
- Does tarot connect to my birth chart here?
- No, and we would rather be clear about that than imply a link. Tarot sits alongside the Vedic side of this site, not inside it. No card means anything different because of your birth date, and nothing on this page reads your chart.