Tarot guides — a spread of cards beside a candle

✦ Learn The Cards ✦

Tarot guides

Six complete guides, from your very first deck to reading like you were born holding one — written to be studied slowly and returned to often.

✦ A Path, Not A Pile ✦

How to Use These Tarot Guides

Most tarot guides online hand you 78 card meanings and wish you luck. Ours are built differently — as a path. These six tarot guides are ordered the way the practice actually unfolds: you begin with the complete foundation in How to Read Tarot Cards, take your very first practical steps — choosing and meeting a deck — in Tarot for Beginners, and learn the hands-on craft of the shuffle, intention, and reversals in How to Shuffle Tarot Cards. From there the guides turn toward the questions people actually bring to the cards: matters of the heart in Tarot Reading for Love, the art of reading cards side by side in our 3,003-pairing combinations library, and the single-card clarity of Yes or No Tarot.

Read slowly, practice daily

The honest secret of learning tarot is that reading about the cards is the map, and drawing them is the territory. Whichever of these tarot guides you are working through, pair it with one small daily habit: a single card each morning from the daily draw, and a line or two in a journal about how the day answered it. Guides teach the language; the daily card teaches you to speak it. Within a season, the two together will have quietly turned you into a reader.

Guides for every kind of seeker

Complete beginner with a still-wrapped deck? Start with guide 02 and let it walk you into guide 01. Been reading for years but never quite settled the reversals question? Guide 03 was written for you. And if you came to the cards the way most of us do — carrying a question about someone — guide 04 will meet you there with kindness and honest spreads. Every guide is free, written in-house at SolsTarot, and connected to the living tools across this site, so what you learn on one page can be practiced on the next.

✦ Practice Makes Intuition ✦

Put It Into Practice

Reading about the cards is the map — drawing them is the territory. Pull your card of the day, or bring a question of the heart to a free reading.