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Tarot card meanings

All 78 cards of the Rider–Waite–Smith deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909. Each card page quotes what Arthur Edward Waite wrote about it in 1910, shows its astrological attribution, and explains the card upright, reversed, in love and at work.

Major Arcana

  • The Fool0
  • The MagicianI
  • The High PriestessII
  • The EmpressIII
  • The EmperorIV
  • The HierophantV
  • The LoversVI
  • The ChariotVII
  • StrengthVIII
  • The HermitIX
  • Wheel of FortuneX
  • JusticeXI
  • The Hanged ManXII
  • DeathXIII
  • TemperanceXIV
  • The DevilXV
  • The TowerXVI
  • The StarXVII
  • The MoonXVIII
  • The SunXIX
  • JudgementXX
  • The WorldXXI

Suit of Wands

  • Ace of Wands
  • Two of Wands
  • Three of Wands
  • Four of Wands
  • Five of Wands
  • Six of Wands
  • Seven of Wands
  • Eight of Wands
  • Nine of Wands
  • Ten of Wands
  • Page of Wands
  • Knight of Wands
  • Queen of Wands
  • King of Wands

Suit of Cups

  • Ace of Cups
  • Two of Cups
  • Three of Cups
  • Four of Cups
  • Five of Cups
  • Six of Cups
  • Seven of Cups
  • Eight of Cups
  • Nine of Cups
  • Ten of Cups
  • Page of Cups
  • Knight of Cups
  • Queen of Cups
  • King of Cups

Suit of Swords

  • Ace of Swords
  • Two of Swords
  • Three of Swords
  • Four of Swords
  • Five of Swords
  • Six of Swords
  • Seven of Swords
  • Eight of Swords
  • Nine of Swords
  • Ten of Swords
  • Page of Swords
  • Knight of Swords
  • Queen of Swords
  • King of Swords

Suit of Pentacles

  • Ace of Pentacles
  • Two of Pentacles
  • Three of Pentacles
  • Four of Pentacles
  • Five of Pentacles
  • Six of Pentacles
  • Seven of Pentacles
  • Eight of Pentacles
  • Nine of Pentacles
  • Ten of Pentacles
  • Page of Pentacles
  • Knight of Pentacles
  • Queen of Pentacles
  • King of Pentacles

Where the meanings come from

The images are the 1909 Rider–Waite–Smith cards and the quoted meanings come from Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910); both are in the public domain. The astrology follows the Golden Dawn, the society Waite and Smith belonged to: each major card has a planet, sign or element, and each numbered minor card from two to ten has a decan, a ten-degree slice of a sign. Card pages show when the Sun is in that slice, computed from the same ephemeris as the rest of the site.

Tarot is used here for self-reflection. There is no evidence that cards predict events, and the pages make no claims about health, money or legal outcomes. The text on each page is written by an AI model from Waite's meanings and the card data, then checked automatically; see the methodology.