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The tarot's 78 cards split into the Major Arcana (22 cards for life's big movements) and the Minor Arcana (everyday currents). Below are the majors people search for most, including the 'scary' ones that almost never mean what they seem. In a live reading, position and neighboring cards shade every meaning; that's what a reader is for.
Card meanings are vocabulary; a reading is the sentence. The same card speaks differently in a love spread than a career spread, upright than reversed, alone than beside the Tower. A live tarot reading pulls physical cards for your specific question and explains every position.
Love questions are tarot's specialty; see our guide on love and tarot.
Each of the 78 cards carries a field of meaning (the Fool: beginnings; the Tower: sudden change) that sharpens through position, orientation and neighboring cards in a spread.
No. Death reads as transformation and necessary endings, the Tower as sudden truth. Honest readers explain them calmly; nobody here may use a card to scare you into paying.
The 22 majors mark life's big arcs; the 56 minors (wands, cups, swords, pentacles) describe everyday energies. Most spreads mix both.