The Tarot Deck — All 78 Cards
The complete 1909 Rider–Waite–Smith deck — the one nearly every modern deck descends from. Click any card and it opens with its meaning in plain words. No jargon, no doom: even Death here just means an ending that makes room.
22 Majors — the big life-lessons. Each one carries a Hebrew letter, and through that letter a sign, planet or element.
56 Minors — the everyday weather, in four suits of 14: Ace–10 plus four court cards (Page, Knight, Queen, King).
The four suits, one line each: Wands = fire, what you do · Cups = water, what you feel · Swords = air, what you think · Pentacles = earth, what you can touch.
Every 2 through 10 also rules a decan — a 10-day slice of the year. Click one and its dates appear. The Aces and the four court cards have no decan: 36 decans divided among the 2s–10s of four suits uses up exactly 36 cards, and the other 20 sit outside that count.
Searches names, suits, meanings, Hebrew letters and decan dates together — so , , and all find cards.
The 22 Major Arcana
The trumps — numbered 0 (The Fool) to 21 (The World). Read in order they tell one story: a soul walking from first step to completion.
The Suit of Wands — Fire
In plain words: will, action, work, the spark — Wands cards are about what you do.
The Suit of Cups — Water
In plain words: feeling, love, relationship, imagination — Cups cards are about what you feel.
The Suit of Swords — Air
In plain words: mind, words, conflict, truth — Swords cards are about what you think and say.
The Suit of Pentacles — Earth
In plain words: money, body, home, craft — Pentacles cards are about what you can touch.
These meanings are a reading tradition, not a fact about you. Tarot has no mechanism and makes no prediction. What a deck is genuinely good at is giving a feeling a name and a shape — which is why the meanings here are written as descriptions of a situation rather than as things that will happen.
No reversals. Many readers turn a card upside down to invert its meaning. This deck does not: every card here carries one meaning, with its own difficulty already written into it. The Devil is the trap and the naming of the trap; nothing needs flipping to become honest.
The Hebrew letters are one arrangement among several. The trumps are tied to the 22 letters by the Golden Dawn key (Aleph = The Fool), which is the key this whole site uses. The Continental / Lévi key shifts every card one letter along and is equally old and equally coherent — the Canon page sets the two side by side.
The pictures. These are scans of the 1909 Rider–Waite–Smith deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith — long in the public domain, which is why they can be shown here in full rather than described.