Wildflower
Cottagecore & hand-drawn
Free · No account · Bring your own deck
Read the cards you actually drew
Threshold is a tarot companion for people who own a deck. You shuffle, you pull, you lay the cards out — then Threshold helps you find the meaning in what is actually in front of you, one position at a time.
A look inside
Your cards, and someone to think them through with
Three Cards · Wildflower deck
Why not just get a random draw?
Because a card a website picked for you is a card nobody pulled. Most tarot sites shuffle a virtual deck and hand you an interpretation — which is a fine party trick, and completely disconnected from the deck sitting on your table.
Threshold starts where your reading already started. It never draws for you. It takes the spread you laid out with your own hands and gives you the structure, the meanings, and the questions to read it properly.
How it works
Four steps, about a minute
Pick a deck style
Choose the art closest to the deck in your hands — Wildflower, Heirloom, or Aquarelle — so what you see on screen matches what you are holding.
Choose a spread
One card for a focused question, three for a small arc, or the full Celtic Cross. Every position is labelled with what it represents.
Lay out what you pulled
Drag cards onto the table or tap to deal them into the next position. Flip any that came out reversed. Free-form lets you place them wherever you like.
Build the reading
See the elemental balance at a glance, open any card for detail, write down what you make of it, and talk it through with the mentor.
Three deck styles
Pick the one that looks like yours
All three follow the standard 78-card Rider–Waite–Smith structure that most modern decks are built on, so the positions and meanings line up with whatever you own.
Heirloom
Retro & hand-inked
Aquarelle
Watercolour & ethereal
What is inside
Everything you need to read a spread
All 78 cards, upright and reversed
Every card in the deck with its keywords, element, and suit theme — written for someone still learning, not someone showing off.
Browse card meanings →Five spreads, positions explained
From a single daily card to the ten-card Celtic Cross, each position tells you what it is asking, so the layout does some of the reading for you.
See the spreads →A mentor, not an oracle
The mentor knows exactly what you laid out, and asks questions rather than delivering verdicts. The interpretation stays yours.
Try a reading →Built to be readable
Text scaling, Atkinson Hyperlegible and Lexend as alternate typefaces, reversals announced in alt text, and all motion collapses under reduced-motion.
About the project →Spreads
From one card to the full Celtic Cross
Questions
Common questions
Is Threshold free?
Yes. Every card meaning, every spread, and the AI mentor are free to use, with no account and no subscription. If you find it useful you can leave a tip, but nothing is held back if you don’t.
Does Threshold shuffle and draw cards for me?
No, and that is the point. Threshold is built for readings you do with a real deck in your hands. You shuffle, you cut, you pull the cards — then you tell Threshold what came up and it helps you interpret it. If you want a random draw, almost any other tarot site will do that; this one is for the deck on your table.
Do I need to know anything about tarot to use it?
No. Threshold is designed for beginners. Each position in a spread is labelled with what it represents, every card comes with upright and reversed keywords, and the mentor explains things in plain language rather than assuming you already know the symbolism.
What is a reversed tarot card?
A reversed card is one that appears upside-down relative to you when you lay it out. Most readers treat a reversal as a softening, a blockage, or an inward turn of the card’s upright meaning rather than its opposite. In Threshold you can flip any card you placed, and the reading accounts for it.
Which tarot spread should I start with?
Start with a single card or a three-card spread. One card suits a focused question or a daily check-in; three cards give you a small arc — past, present, future — without more information than you can hold. The Celtic Cross is worth saving until you are comfortable reading a few cards in relation to each other.
Does the mentor tell me what my reading means?
It helps you arrive at your own reading rather than handing you a verdict. The mentor knows which deck, spread, and cards you laid out, and it asks questions, offers context, and points out connections between positions — but the interpretation stays yours. There is also a notes workspace for writing down what you make of it.
Are my readings stored anywhere?
No. Nothing about your reading is saved on a server. Your notes and display preferences live in your own browser’s local storage, and sharing a reading encodes the layout into the link itself, which never reaches us.
Which tarot deck does Threshold use?
Your own. Threshold offers three art styles — Wildflower, Heirloom, and Aquarelle — so the cards on screen resemble the deck in your hands, and all three follow the standard 78-card Rider-Waite-Smith structure that most modern decks are based on.
No paywall, no account
Threshold is free, and stays free
Every card meaning, every spread, and the mentor itself are open to anyone who wants them. If it helped you sit with a difficult reading, a coffee keeps the lights on.
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