Decision Tarot Spread
Reading the five decision positions
- 1. The Situation: Where you stand right now with the decision in front of you.
- 2. If You Choose A: Where the first path is likely to lead.
- 3. If You Choose B: Where the second path is likely to lead.
- 4. What You're Not Seeing: A hidden factor shaping the choice you may be overlooking.
- 5. Advice: The best next step the cards suggest you take.
How the decision tarot spread works
One draw lays out five distinct cards from the full 78-card deck — the 22 Major Arcana plus the 56 Minor Arcana across Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles — dealt without replacement into five fixed positions built for a “Should I?” question: The Situation, If You Choose A, If You Choose B, What You're Not Seeing, and Advice. The first card frames where you stand now, the next two show where each path is likely to lead, the fourth surfaces a hidden factor shaping the choice, and the last points to the best next step. Each card gets a fair Upright or Reversed orientation and shows its keyword meaning for that orientation, so you can read the two branches side by side and see how the decision is likely to play out.
Reading the two option paths
Before you draw, name your two choices out loud — option A and option B — so cards two and three land on a concrete branch each. Read those two positions against one another: a strong, welcoming card on one path and a blocked or reversed card on the other is the clearest signal, while two encouraging cards mean both options can work and the Advice card matters most. The What You're Not Seeing card often reframes the whole spread — an outside factor, a motive, or a cost you had not weighed — so let it adjust how you read both paths before you settle on the Advice.
Fair random selection
The five cards are shuffled with a Fisher–Yates draw and taken from the top of the deck, so no card can repeat within a spread, then each card flips a fair 50/50 orientation when reversed cards are enabled. Rangdom uses cryptographically secure randomness from the Web Crypto API, so the next spread is not predictable from previous draws.
Upright and reversed
Keep the “Include reversed cards” toggle on for the traditional 50/50 chance of a reversed card in each position, which often softens or blocks a card's upright energy — useful when you want the two paths to show their downsides honestly. Turn it off when every card should land Upright for a clearer, more encouraging read of each option.
When to use it
Use this spread when you are weighing two specific options — this job or that one, stay or go, say yes or no to an offer — and want to compare where each path leads rather than settle a single situation. For a fast binary verdict, draw a Yes or No Tarot card instead; for a single card, use the Tarot Card generator; for a broad three-card Past · Present · Future look, use the Tarot Spread; for a work-focused check-in, use the Career Tarot Spread, and for a relationship one, the Love Tarot Spread. To look up or memorize what every card means, see the Tarot Card Meanings chart and quiz.