Explore all 78 Enlightenment Tarot cards and their psychological meanings. Each summary offers a starting point for reflection. Click a card or its title to read the full interpretation.
The numbered cards express faculties of consciousness; court cards represent people involved in a querent’s challenge. Interpret each card in the context of the question and surrounding cards.
Major Arcana · Minor Arcana · Court Cards
Major Arcana
The Major Arcana represent 22 powers of consciousness and their spiritual, creative, intellectual, and bodily expressions.
Relationships (Lovers)
Relationship intelligence, mutual respect, communication, and clear boundaries.
Sacrifice (Hanged Man)
Reversal, fresh perspectives, stability, and giving up the lesser for the greater.
Realization (Judgment)
Transcendence, sound judgment, forgiveness, and resolving cognitive dissonance.
Minor Arcana
The Minor Arcana represent the ten spheres of the Tree of Life across the four levels of human expression: spiritual (wands), creative (cups), intellectual (swords), and bodily (pentacles).
Wands
Intention and spiritual purpose.
Cups
Creativity, desires, and feelings.
Swords
Intelligence, thinking, and discernment.
Pentacles
Practical action, the body, and material life.
Court Cards
In psychological Tarot readings, the court cards represent people involved in the querent’s challenge.
Wands Court Cards
King of Wands
May represent an elderly and experienced, willful man of authority, a leader: honest, influential, just or cruel, generous or intolerant, kind or cruel.
Queen of Wands
May represent a willful woman: generous or stubborn, resolute or revengeful, intense or tyrannical, magnetic or dangerous.
Knight of Wands
May represent a young, willful man: confident or foolhardy, energetic or impulsive, inspired or ideological, adventurous or reckless.
Page of Wands
May represent a willful youth or messenger: brilliant or theatrical, enthusiastic or headstrong, revengeful, unstable.
Cups Court Cards
King of Cups
May represent an elderly and experienced, creative man: passionate but calm, secretive and subtle, conscientious or crafty, honest or deceitful.
Queen of Cups
May represent a creative woman: imaginative, psychic, alert, honest or subtle, attractive or superficial, kind or flirty.
Knight of Cups
May represent a young, creative, charming, imaginative man: tasteful or show-off, artistic or theatrical, romantic or emotional.
Page of Cups
May represent a creative youth: kind, poetical, imaginative or dreamy, courageous or cocky, studious or lazy.
Swords Court Cards
King of Swords
May represent an elderly and experienced, intelligent man: versed in the law, analytical, professional, cautious or distrustful, cooperative or scheming.
Queen of Swords
May represent an intelligent, perceptive, confident woman: agreeable or ambitious, frank or sly, graceful or deceitful.
Knight of Swords
May represent a young, intelligent, competent man: clever or crafty, managing or manipulating, flexible or volatile, careful or anxious.
Page of Swords
May represent an intelligent, energetic, perceptive youth: artistic or frivolous, aspiring or prodigal, graceful or inelegant.
Pentacles Court Cards
King of Pentacles
May represent an elderly and experienced, practical, patient, reliable man: serious or dull, principled or stubborn, selfish or materialistic.
Queen of Pentacles
May represent a practical woman: generous or cheap, ceremonious or boastful, charming or moody, graceful or immoral.
Knight of Pentacles
May represent a young, practical, efficient man: persistent or stubborn, diligent or workaholic, responsible or controlling.
Page of Pentacles
May represent a practical youth: generous or materialistic, diligent or dull, industrious or wasteful.