Tarot
Tarot for beginners: pulling your first card
Tarot isn't about predicting the future — it's a mirror for your intuition. Here's how to start reading.
A tarot deck has 78 cards: 22 Major Arcana (big life themes, like The Moon or The Star) and 56 Minor Arcana in four suits — Cups (emotions), Wands (passion), Swords (thoughts) and Pentacles (money and the material world).
Your first reading
- Hold the deck, breathe, and think of a gentle, open question: “What do I need to know today?”
- Shuffle until it feels right.
- Pull one card and look at it before reaching for the guidebook. What do you notice first — colours, figures, feelings?
- Then read the traditional meaning, and see how the two fit together.
Tips
- Keep a tarot journal of your daily card.
- Reversed (upside-down) cards can be read as the energy being blocked or internal — or you can simply ignore reversals when starting out.
- There are no “bad” cards. Even Death usually means an ending that makes room for something new.
Want to see tarot in action? Yulia shares collective readings every week on the Yulia Moon Show.
