Over the past few years, there has been an increase in free fortune and tarot readings online. There is of course a high interest in various divination tools, like tarot, astrology, and so on.

A Tarot reading can help focus your mind and guide you when for example you feel emotionally troubled or can't think clearly. By providing you with a reflection on your past, present, and possible future, it can give you a fresh perspective on your life, and also often offer some reassurance about what is further down the road for you.

Some people can get understandably nervous about looking into the future, and prefer to take a head-in-the-sand approach, but fortune telling generally only tells you what is possible in the future for you, and it's not set in stone.

In fact, you may decide after a reading, that the way your current life is arranged is not ideal, is perhaps leading to a future that you were aware of but hadn't been able to perhaps articulate before, and that certain changes, often fairly subtle, are necessary if you are going to start aiming more towards the life you really want and deserve.

What are Tarot Cards?

Tarot cards consist of a set of 78 cards which can be laid out in different ways to assess the past, present, and future of someone's life - the position of each card means something different according to where it is positioned in the spread.

Even much-feared cards like The Tower, and even the Death card, are not as bleak as their names suggest, and can often conversely mean possibly exciting changes such as a new chapter in your life about to begin.

Common spreads that are used in tarot readings include the Mirror Spread, the Celtic Cross, and the Past, Present, Future Spread. Those proficient in free fortune and tarot readings tend to stick to a spread with which they have become familiar - all spreads do an equally good job at divination and fortune telling.

Tarot is perhaps the most common spelling, but it can also be spelt tarrot, taro or tarro elsewhere.

Various sites exist online that can provide you with free fortune and tarot readings:

* Spellspace.com - you can join this site for free, get tarot readings, save them, make notes, and use other fortune-telling tools such as get your daily horoscope and read about moon phases.

* NewAgeStore.com - this site offers a single card tarot, used to give a concise and highly focussed reading. You can also choose a 2 or 3 card reading, a 12 month tarot reading (using the 12 Month Spread) to look at the year ahead, and even a Tarot Astrology Reading, which combines both astrology and tarot to provide a very rounded reading not just of what lies ahead, but also regarding you as a person, your aims and ambitions. It's not clear what exactly is free, and what they may charge you for.

* Free-Tarot-Reading.net - this site charges for some of their services, but they also say they are committed to providing absolutely free readings on the site too.

Overall, Tarot readings and other fortune telling methods can help you get in touch with your intuition and help you make the right choices in life. It should not however be seen as something you can rely on for decision-making - don't start consulting the tarot every time you need to make a decision on something!

Love and joy.