Tarot card meanings

Every Luna Post postcard has a card drawn for you and printed on the back, and this is the rest of the story. All 78 cards of the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, what each one tends to mean upright and reversed, and one question worth sitting with when it turns up as yours.

If you're new to reading them, start with how to ask tarot a better question. The spread matters far less than what you asked it.

The Major Arcana

The twenty-two cards of the big themes — the ones that tend to describe a chapter of a life rather than a week of it.

Wands

Fire: energy, drive, creativity, and whatever you're trying to build.

Cups

Water: feeling, relationships, intuition, and what you actually want.

Swords

Air: thought, truth, conflict, and the stories you tell yourself.

Pentacles

Earth: work, money, the body, and everything with a weight to it.

Have a card of your own drawn each full moon

We draw one for you every full moon and put it in the post, printed on a postcard alongside a reflection written from that card, your star sign, your Chinese zodiac and your numerology.

The card images come from the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. It has been in the public domain for a long while now, and it's still the deck most readings quietly assume.