Guide
Tarot, Lenormand, Runes, Ogham, I Ching and Geomancy
Tarot is a deck of 78 cards — 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana in four suits (wands, cups, swords and pentacles) — drawn and read in response to a question. It belongs to the family of "cast" traditions, which read what is drawn or thrown at the moment of asking rather than a birth chart; the others Plutto reads include the Lenormand deck, runes, Ogham, the I Ching and geomancy.
The tarot deck
The Major Arcana run from The Fool to The World and are read as the large movements of a life; the Minor Arcana, fourteen cards in each suit from Ace to King, as its everyday matters. A reading lays cards in a spread, where each position asks its own part of the question.
Other decks and lots
Lenormand is a 36-card deck read in plain, concrete combinations. Runes are the letters of the Elder Futhark, drawn from a bag; Ogham is the early Irish tree alphabet. The I Ching builds one of 64 hexagrams from six lines cast with coins or yarrow stalks. Geomancy marks sixteen figures from random marks and reads them in a chart of its own.
What Plutto reads for Tarot and card readings
- Tarot — shuffle, choose, and the draw is read for you; never the same draw twice
- Lenormand, Runes, Ogham, I Ching and Geomancy — each dealt and read in its own tradition
- The Blunt Seer — a straight answer, if you dare
Every reading is computed from your own date, time and place of birth with Swiss Ephemeris, and spoken in your language. Free to start.
Questions
How many cards are in a tarot deck?
A standard tarot deck has 78 cards: 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana divided into four suits of 14 cards — wands, cups, swords and pentacles.
What is the difference between tarot and Lenormand?
Tarot has 78 cards with rich symbolic imagery and is read card by card within a spread. Lenormand has 36 cards with simple everyday images, and is read in pairs and lines like sentences.
What is the I Ching?
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese text of 64 hexagrams. A reading builds one hexagram from six lines, traditionally cast with three coins or 50 yarrow stalks, and reads the text for it and any changing lines.
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Updated 2026-09-28. Plutto presents these traditions for reflection; it does not claim that astrology predicts events.
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