r/tarot • • 3d ago

Weekly Help "Weekly Reading and Interpretation Help Thread - October 25, 2026"

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Please use this thread to request a reading, to request help with interpretation for non-relationship readings, or to offer free readings. Love relationship readings currently have their own thread pinned at the top of the sub on a trial basis.

This thread is refreshed every Sunday.

If you are requesting help with interpretation, please comment using the following format:

  • The question(s) you're asking, with any context you would like to share.

  • An explanation of the spread you're using. Diagrams or links are welcome.

  • A photo or description of the cards you dealt. You can upload photos via imgur, or another hosting service.

  • Your interpretation.

If someone helps you, consider giving them some feedback or thanking them for their work!


r/tarot • • 3d ago

Weekly Help "Weekly All About Love Relationship Second Opinion and Interpretation Help Thread - October 25, 2026"

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After receiving feedback from the community, we’re putting this weekly thread in place on a trial basis dedicated solely to love relationship readings.  Examples of questions that can be posted here are: 

  • does he/she/my FWB love me?
  • what are this person’s feelings/intentions towards me?
  • is he/she coming back?
  • will we reconcile?
  • should I break no contact? 
  • we just broke up, what now?
  • what will my future spouse look like?
  • what does my love life look like in the next 3 months?
  • why is my ex texting me again?
  • my ex keeps calling me, what should I do?

Please note that we, the moderators, are trying this out as an experiment and will determine at a later date if this dedicated thread should become a permanent feature in the sub.   We will also use our discretion as to which readings belong here in this thread, and which will remain on the main sub.  That will depend upon the complexity of the question as well as how close it adheres to rule no. 3 about posting. 

If you are requesting help by asking a second opinion or interpretation help, please comment using the following format:

* The question(s) you're asking, with any context you would like to share.

* An explanation of the spread you're using. Diagrams or links are welcome.

* A photo or description of the cards you dealt. You can upload photos via imgur, or another hosting service. 

* Your interpretation.

If someone helps you, consider giving them some feedback or thanking them for their work!


r/tarot • • 15h ago

Discussion Who are collective tarot readings really for…?

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For all and nobody at the same time.

I repeat: for all and thence NOBODY at the same time.

So, please, STOP thinking that a TikToker with thousands of views on a general reading is just talking about your life. They. Are. Not.

Now, if you spend hours of your day consuming that kind of content, please stop here for some minutes and reflect.

How can the same reading apply to you and thousands of other people at the same moment? True readings are done for you, and for you only.

Interactives are a social media format, NOT proper divination, NOR any other kind of tarot reading.

I understand that creators need a low-effort way to fill their channels (otherwise they could better do, say, real live short readings, which require showing some talent and receiving live feedback) but, sincerely, I’ve started reading around that very young people take this seriously, and we aaaaall need to stop it.

This thing is becoming quite dangerous. It’s literally making you a poor DELULU, guys.

Yes, because, if it were just a silly and harmless thing, people would take it for what it is – colored entertainment.

Instead, there’s something else happening there, and it’s idiotizing you day after day.

Have you noticed that interactives always tell good stories…? Good excuses? Good hopes?

Is that guy not giving a sh* about you anymore...? It's always because he’s shy/blocked/traumatized, but he secretly thinks about you. It never happens that they just don’t give a sh*.

Are you in an abusive relationship? It will get marvelous! It never happens that someone tells you that's not normal, and maybe you should do something before you f*ck up your mental health...

Have you got a problem? Everything will always resolve and people will come towards you, the real center of the universe! It never happens that, probably, you just have to pick yourself up and rebuild your life after a failure, like we all do, because nobody will come after you...

Hello? Wake uuup!!! You’re well past the age of fables!

Those people are capitalizing on your worst naivety and attachments. They are telling you to flush your intelligence down the toilet, and just hope… On the basis of a general message, done for everyone, and therefore for no one. Because you are unique, and so generalist messages cannot be for YOU. They are ultimately just for NOBODY.

Please, be smart, and don’t let the worst dumb mentality install itself in you. The world is hard, people are bad, problems happen, and you need your best discernment to navigate life and succeed. But to succeed, you need to face your problems, not pretend they are something else... because the surest way to make a problem become big and swallow you, is to ignore it.

The very same moment that you drop your judgment to attach yourself to false hopes, you’re giving up the best part of yourself in favor of idiocy, dictated to you by commercial formats.

So, again, stop this addiction to interactive cards. And stop believing them.

Real readings are done for you only. Interactives are NOT real readings.

Sorry, I had to say this sooner or later.


r/tarot • • 22h ago

Discussion So, what are those dark spots?

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Hello everyone!

A little over a week ago (like... 8 days ago) I was delivered a deck. I've been connecting with it by shuffling it often for a few minutes and just, generally, by holding it in my hands.

Today, however, I've noticed that there are some small dark spots on the right edges. They're easy to remove by scratching them away gently, but they're numerous (and kind of annoying, given how much I care for my decks). And it's not the first time this happens to me either: another Tarot deck I have has the same exact problem!

So I wanted to ask: what are those? Is there any way to remove them for once and for all/prevent them from appear?

Thank you beforehand!


r/tarot • • 10h ago

Second Opinion on Reading Interpretation Only Is my cat still with me?

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My cat (Roquefort) died yesterday and I am having a rough time. I had a baby last month and thought my baby and Roquefort would be very good friends.

I pulled the cards with not specific spread in mind. Here is my interpretation

Temperance: I need time to process what happened and with time I will remember him fondly.

The Chariot: Having trouble interpreting this card, the sphinx resembles my cat that was black and white.

Page of Cups: Meaning new begginings,

The whole reading gives me a feeling of taking time to remember the good memories and being able to look forward.

what do you think of the reading? thank you!!


r/tarot • • 20h ago

Deck Identification Deck ID

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Can anyone ID this tarot cards for me? Thank you so much!


r/tarot • • 1d ago

Deck Identification Help Identifying deck?

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Hello, a friend's mom recently passed, and I saw this card at her wake. She found it on the side of the road and unknown amount of time ago, but I suspect several decades.

I think it's probably from an oracle deck, not necessarily tarot but I thought this might be the place to ask.

Thank you!


r/tarot • • 19h ago

Deck Reviews Decks similar artwork to Cat people tarot or Stella's Tarot?

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Hi all, just discovered the cat people tarot and I quite dig it, but I'm still going back and forth.

I also like Stella's but it is hard to find in Germany.

Basically I love decks that seem to have a world of their own, yet dedicated to Tarot and doesn't feel rushed.

Other decks I like are Shadowscapes, Paulina and Wild Unknown. Thank you!


r/tarot • • 19h ago

Second Opinion on Reading Interpretation Only Tower and star. Career change

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I pulled two to get some guidance, but I would be interested to see how somebody else would interprets it?

My question was “because ai is taking over my job, is this new career path I’ve been researching a correct choice for me?”

I got the Tower and the Star.

I believe the tower is showing me that my current job is insecure and crumbling. And the star is showing me my chosen path is good as it’d be people focused.


r/tarot • • 1d ago

Theory and Technique How to get better at asking questions?

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Basically the title. How do you improve your question asking for tarot? I find myself defaulting to yes/no questions or something really vague. Sometimes, I feel like when I get too specific the cards that come don't make any sense to me in the context of what I'm asking. For example, I've asked about some recent dreams I've had and tried to figure out if it was my own head or if it was a message or something from someone else. The cards I got didn't give me any sort of clarity about it.

I don't want to overdo asking questions about a specific topic but I have a hard time distilling down what I'm trying to get at sometimes. How do you find that middle ground? Is it just something that comes with time?


r/tarot • • 1d ago

Art "The Bride" as Death, XIII.

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I think the Death card is really about transformation and letting go. That fits Emily perfectly. Her true 'death' moment isn't her tragic murder, but her final choice to release Victor and move on. I chose the glowing butterflies to represent both her spiritual rebirth and her literal release at the end of the film.

By me (danae.illustrate) on Ibispaintx.


r/tarot • • 1d ago

Second Opinion on Reading Interpretation Only I need to be reborn?

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Going through my quarter life crisis. I’m 24, just got a divorce ending my 6 year relationship, moved on my own to NYC. Having one of the darkest periods of my life. Letting men use me because I feel a desperate need for partnership and realizing how hard it is to be alone. Oscillate between feeling nothing, extreme euphoria when I meet someone new, and almost immediate grief or disgust for the person to follow depending on what ended up happening. I feel so lost. Asked my deck what my energy is right now. In order received these cards.
My interpretation: high priestess (my identifier card) signaling that deep down I know what I need to do, I know I’m worth more and I need to trust myself enough to be on my own. Death meaning I need a complete change in how I’m currently operating and perceiving my life, hanged man meaning I’m stuck in these patterns and that’s what’s causing my suffering? Usually I don’t pull all three major arcana at the same time and wondering what this could mean or if anyone has another interpretation I’m not seeing. Fairly new to tarot and trying to develop my own intuition. Thank you in advance


r/tarot • • 2d ago

Discussion I need to interpret what signs I am being sent

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So In these last two weeks, first I got a seven of hearts lying on street and today I got this six of diamond and both of the time the backside was up and I was just drawn to pick them up. I just need help with what kind of message are being sent? And yes, I have been thinking to get myself a tarot deck from months, and my inner life is also in disruptions so I just meed insights how would you interpret them if you find them lying on street just like that.

I got seven of hearts on 12th of Oct, in evening, sun was down already.

Got this six of diamonds on 26th of Oct in broad daylight.

My interpretation is like this - seven of hearts (or cups) for I was unable to differentiate between what is real and illusion, kind of being on the crossroads. Six of diamonds (or pentacles) for justice or karma, kind of light amidst the chaos, like the broad daylight? plus it being the day of full moon.


r/tarot • • 1d ago

Discussion Can tarot be used to Interpret what could have been ?

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Usually tarot is used to ask about the future or the present, but can it be used to ask questions such as if I had chosen this path what would have happened and so on ? I don’t think I’ve seen tarot spread like this so far!


r/tarot • • 1d ago

Discussion Air-Wand and Fire-Sword

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Hello everyone, I have a question. I know that some people associate wands with air and swords with fire in their magickal practice, rather than the more common correspondences of wands with fire and swords with air.
Do you still use tarot decks that follow the traditional correspondences of swords with air and wands with fire? If so, do you find it easy to work with both systems by keeping the two sets of associations mentally separate?


r/tarot • • 3d ago

Shitpost Saturday! My painting of The Hermit

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with a dragon in the background symbolizing Paarthurnax from Skyrim (that's also the Hermit)


r/tarot • • 3d ago

Art IX of Pentacles Costume

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**Edit: pic of full costume + me wearing it in the comments!**

I have gotten this card more than any others from my spreads this year, so I decided to be her for Samhain! I also made with witchy circle focaccia loaf "coins" but I can only put in one pic!

Thrifted the dresses from goodwill and then made a stamp for the flower + used arcylic/fabric medium and the coins are repurposed cardboard and paint!


r/tarot • • 3d ago

Shitpost Saturday! Asked for an encouraging message for today 🤣

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Sure, it can be encouraging once the Star comes along, and I suppose you can look at it as clearing of whats nessacery to attain clarity (Star), but how else can this be viewed as a uplifting message, even though it heralds a tough experience to get there? Would love to see some opinions on this!

For context, ahead of me today is studying(crunching) & doing much needed chores, I interpret this as yes, im in the middle of a Tower-esqe moment, but its temporary and I have the power to make changes to get to the other side, I just have to wield that power with more focused action.

Deck: Thoth Tarot (trimmed large edition) Author: Aleister Crowley Artist: Lady Frieda Harris


r/tarot • • 2d ago

Second Opinion on Reading Interpretation Only The question was: What is preventing me from achieving success?

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4 of Pentacles: Telling me I should be appreciative and more grateful of what I currently have

10 of Wands: Telling me I have spread myself too thin and I should try letting go of a few responsibilities

Im fairly new to tarot so I just wanted to check if my interpretation is correct?


r/tarot • • 3d ago

Shitpost Saturday! What do you do when people don't like your readings?

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​​ I'm sure this was asked here before, but I did a reading for someone and she really didn't like the answer that I gave her. Her questions were​​ related to finances and health and housing stability but I just kept pulling up cards that said she had to do the work and also deal with emotional issues that are blocking her. She really didn't like that answer. I ended up pulling 15 cards before I just stopped pulling cards.

​​ what do you do when someone really doesn't like your reading or doesn't want to accept the answer?


r/tarot • • 3d ago

Shitpost Saturday! What does my ex think of our situation now?

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118 Upvotes

It’s been more than 20 days of no contact. What does it mean?


r/tarot • • 3d ago

Shitpost Saturday! Where can i find my Amazon fire stick

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43 Upvotes

Searching for my fire stick desperately, hopefully will find.

Format : location, direction and possible blockages


r/tarot • • 3d ago

Shitpost Saturday! What the actual f is up with my sister

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r/tarot • • 3d ago

Second Opinion on Reading Interpretation Only Having trouble interpreting 9 of Wands in reverse

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Hello! I’m having some trouble figuring out the meaning of 9 of wands in reverse in my horseshoe spread. Context is, I am retaking an incredibly important exam I took last year (didn’t get the result I wanted) that I prepared all year for now.

Here’s my spread and interpretation:

  1. The past - The Hermit: The experience made me hide within myself, but there was a reason it all happened. There was some protection from above involved in this event taking place.

  2. The present - Queen of Swords: I’m in a much better position now study wise, I have my swords out and I feel prepared for this exam.

  3. Hidden influences - 6 of Cups: My mental state is influenced by my own doubts stemming from childhood trauma or from my past failure.

  4. Obstacles - 7 of Cups: I’m confused, there are a lot of options ahead of me and ways to approach this. Could also be referring to my 4 career options after passing the exam.

  5. Any influence out of my control - The Tower: Strong influences are at play which can shake up my plan and there’s nothing I can do about those.

  6. The solution - The Lovers: I have to make conscious choices during the exam that require me finding a balance between both my heart and my mind. Probably listening to my intuition where I’m unsure.

  7. Outcome - 9 of Wands reversed. Upturned, I interpet it as reaching a point where I’m stuck after wading my way through the problem. Reversed, I see it as burnout, exhaustion, finding a way through the “wall” in front me.

I also asked for clarification and got Ace of Pentacles and 4 of Pentacles. 4 of pentacles matches my 4 options if I pass the exam, while I interpret the Ace as the ultimate card of success, which could I will be given one of the 4 options.

The reason I’m confused is, I’ve seen 9 of Wands reversed interpreted as reaching a point where you have to give up the fight, where the battle is lost at the finish line, which is the total opposite as it seems. It’s difficult not being subjective in my own reading, but at the same time I don’t see how the meaning of this card could be negative when correlated with Queen of Swords, a Major Arcana as the solution and the pentacles clarification.

Any help/advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you!