Tarot
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Tarot is a tool for reflection. Card meanings follow the Rider–Waite–Smith tradition.
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About the tarot readings
Tarot is a deck of 78 cards: 22 Major Arcana for the larger themes of life, and 56 Minor Arcana in four suits (Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles) for everyday matters. In a reading the cards are laid in a spread, where each position asks its own question, such as what led here, where you stand or what crosses you.
Start with each card in its own position, then look at how the cards connect across the spread. A reversed card has its own traditional meaning, often about delay, doubt or energy held back, rather than simply bad news. Tarot is at its most useful as a prompt for reflection on one clear question, asked once.
Free, with no account
- A card of the day, the same all day
- Yes or no: one card, its lean and the reason for it
- One-card guidance for right now
- A focus on love, career or money, or a general reading
Three-card reading
5 credits per reading (about ₹0.25)
- Past, present and future
- Love, career or money focus
Celtic Cross reading
15 credits per reading (about ₹0.74)
- Ten-card in-depth spread
- Position-by-position guidance
Paid spreads are charged once per reading, when you first shuffle the deck. The Premium plan includes unlimited readings. New accounts get 100 free credits to use within 14 days.
How Taradisha works it out
- The deck
- The 78 cards of the Rider–Waite–Smith tradition, drawn as original artwork, each with upright and reversed meanings and readings for love, career and money.
- The shuffle
- Each reading is shuffled with a Fisher–Yates shuffle driven by your browser’s cryptographic random numbers, and about three cards in ten come up reversed. You then pick your own cards from the spread-out deck.
- Yes or no
- Every card leans yes, no or maybe, upright and reversed, with reversals read from Waite’s Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910). Across the deck the answer is yes about 45% of the time, no 27% and maybe 28%.
- Card of the day and Celtic Cross
- The card of the day is chosen from the date and, if you have saved a profile, its name, so it stays the same all day. The Celtic Cross is laid in the modern order, with the root third and the crown fifth.
Questions about tarot
Which tarot readings are free?
The card of the day, the yes-or-no reading and the one-card reading are free, with no account. The three-card and Celtic Cross spreads use credits, charged once per reading when you shuffle.
Are the cards really random?
Yes. Every reading is shuffled with your browser’s cryptographic random numbers. In a test of 78,000 shuffles, each card came up first between 925 and 1,070 times against 1,000 expected, and 30.3% of cards were reversed. Only the card of the day is fixed, by the date and your saved name.
What does a reversed card mean?
It is read from the card’s own reversed meaning, which often points to a delay, an inner block or something not yet expressed. A reversed card is not a warning in itself.
How should I ask a yes-or-no question?
Ask about one thing, in words that can be answered yes or no, and ask it once. Drawing again for the same question tends to blur the answer rather than settle it.
Can tarot predict the future?
Tarot is best used for reflection. The cards describe themes and possibilities to think about, not fixed events, and they are no substitute for advice on health, money or legal matters.