Tarot
Draw a spread
A shuffle of all seventy-eight cards, dealt into one of three spreads, with what Waite wrote about each card in 1911.
What this is. The order is produced by shuffling the deck with the browser's cryptographic random number generator — the same source a password generator uses. It is not seeded by your birth date, your question or anything about you, and nothing is saved. Reload the page and you will get a different spread.
The meanings shown are quotations from The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, which Waite published in 1911 to accompany this deck. They are what one named book says a card was taken to mean. Nothing here predicts anything, and nothing here is advice — see the disclaimer.
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About the Celtic Cross
The ten-card spread and the wording of its positions — “this covers him”, “this crosses him” — are Waite's, set out in the 1911 book as an ancient Celtic method. The three-card line is not his; it is a later and much plainer arrangement, and it is included because it is the one most people actually use.
Some of Waite's notes mention the Significator. In his method the reader first chooses a card to stand for the person or the matter the question is about — a court card, picked by age and colouring, for a person, or a card whose meaning fits the matter — lays it face up, and deals the ten cards around it, the first on top of it. This draw sets no Significator aside: it shuffles all seventy-eight and deals ten, so where a note says “the Significator”, read it as whoever or whatever the question is about.