The Tarot is a powerful resource for a person in a difficult situation or going through a challenging life phase. It is simply amazing that even just by pulling one card a day out of the deck, you can get a lot of support on your life path and get some vital advice. People who have had such experience know that the Tarot is a true friend and a really useful helper. The Tarot cards list given here is universal (standard). That is, the tarot card list remains constant and does not depend on the variety of the deck.

The deck of Tarot cards consists of the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. Major Arcana includes 22 cards. They are numbered from zero to 21. The Minor Arcana (sometime it is called Lesser Arcana) consists of 56 cards, divided into suits: swords, wands, cups and pentacles (they are also known as coins). Each suit of the tarot cards list has 14 cards in it. Any suit starts from Ace and ends with King.

The Full Standard Tarot Cards List

Here is the standard, contemporary tarot cards list. Minor Arcana and Major Arcana cards in tarot decks are always illustrated. In our tarot readings and through the pages of the blog, we use the classic and universal tarot images. By the way, tarot cards are full of symbols, so it makes sense to pay attention to pictures on the cards that you pick.

Major Arcana Card List

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0. The Fool. Key words: innocence, folly, mania, extravagance, new beginnings, free spirit.

1. The Magician. Key words: skill, diplomacy, address, subtlety; willpower, desire, creation, manifestation.

2. The High Priestess. Key words: inner voice, secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests you, if male; you yourself, if female; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, and science.

3. The Empress. Key words: fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of days; also difficulty, doubt, ignorance; the unknown, clandestine; motherhood, fertility, nature.

4. The Emperor. Key words: authority and will, structure, control; stability, power, protection, realization; a great person; aid, reason, conviction; also fatherhood.

5. The Hierophant. Key words: marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude; mercy and goodness; inspiration; tradition, conformity, morality, ethics; the man to whom you has recourse.

6. The Lovers. Key words: choice; attraction, love, beauty, trials overcome; partnerships, duality, union.

7. The Chariot. Key words: direction, control, willpower; succor, providence; also war, triumph, presumption, vengeance, trouble.

8. Strength. Key words: power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honors; inner strength, bravery, compassion, and focus.

9. The Hermit. Key words: prudence, circumspection; also and especially treason, dissimulation, roguery, corruption; contemplation, search for truth, inner guidance.

10. The Wheel of Fortune. Key words: destiny, fortune, success, elevation, luck, felicity; change, cycles, inevitable fate.

11. Justice. Key words: equity, rightness, probity, executive; triumph of the deserving side in law; truth, cause and effect, clarity.

12. The Hanged Man. Key words: sacrifice, release, martyrdom, wisdom, circumspection, discernment, trials, sacrifice, intuition, divination, prophecy.

13. Death. Key words: the end, mortality, destruction, corruption; also, for a man, the loss of a benefactor; for a woman, many contrarieties; for a maid, failure of marriage projects; end of cycle, beginnings, change.

14. Temperance. Key words: economy, moderation, frugality, management, accommodation; middle path, patience, finding meaning.

15. The Devil. Key words: ravage, violence, vehemence, extraordinary efforts, force, fatality; that which is predestined but is not for this reason evil; addiction, materialism, playfulness.

16. The Tower. Key words: misery, distress, indigence, adversity, calamity, disgrace, deception, ruin; sudden upheaval, broken pride; sometimes unforeseen catastrophe.

17. The Star. Key words: hope, bright prospects; sometimes loss, theft, privation, abandonment; hope, faith, rejuvenation.

18. The Moon. Key words: hidden enemies, danger, calumny, darkness, terror, deception, occult forces, error; unconscious and illusions.

19. The Sun. Key words: material happiness, fortunate marriage, contentment; joy, success, celebration and positivity.

20. Judgment. Key words: change of position, renewal, outcome; reflection, reckoning, awakening.

21. The World. Key words: assured success, recompense, voyage, route, emigration, flight, change of place; fulfillment, harmony, completion.

If you want to develop more in-depth knowledge, you can read more about cards form Tarot Major Arcana and their meanings. Keep reading about the Minor Arcana.