One clearly named tradition
This release uses Rider–Waite–Smith as its visual reference: 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana, with Strength at VIII and Justice at XI. The Major Arcana, four suits, and court cards share one catalogue across the library, practice, and journal. Marseille and other systems need their own explanations and are not silently substituted.
Historical description and modern learning notes
A. E. Waite’s The Pictorial Key to the Tarot supplies a historical reference for the images created by Pamela Colman Smith and Waite’s interpretations. The V&A history provides museum context. Our upright and reversed notes, questions, guides, and examples are original modern teaching text, not quotations from Waite. A symbol can support several readings; none establishes a prediction.
Visuals
MystLume · Quiet Lantern is our original visual collection: 78 AI-assisted tarot illustrations, a project-drawn card back, and covers for our tools and guides. The drawings use traditional RWS learning symbols with new compositions, clothing and landscapes. They are not historical scans or illustrations by Pamela Colman Smith. Card names and numbers are rendered separately for readability. We check the depicted symbols and suit counts against the learning notes, and serve compressed images locally. The collection manifest identifies each asset and checksum. The historical reference credits remain available for the earlier scan collection; those scans are not the current displayed deck.
Drawing and recording
A digital draw selects uniformly from the remaining cards using the browser’s cryptographic random generator with rejection sampling. Cards do not repeat within a single reading. When reversals are enabled, orientations are selected separately with equal probability. This randomness is not influenced by your question. Manual entry records cards from your own deck; duplicate cards are rejected for the supported single-deck model.
Learning scope
The future position suggests a possible direction, not a fixed outcome. These tools support study and reflection; they do not identify facts about health, money, legal outcomes, or other people’s private thoughts.
Numerology calculation conventions
Life path uses Gregorian dates. The default reduces month, day, and year separately, retaining 11, 22, and 33 at each step; an all-digits alternative is shown alongside it. Pythagorean expression numbers add all letter values before reduction and retain the same master numbers. Chaldean name numbers use the eight-value letter table, keep the original total visible, and reduce to 1–9. We do not apply Western master-number stops to that calculation.
Personal years use birth month, birth day, and the selected calendar year, reducing every part and the final sum to 1–9. The period runs January 1–December 31. February 29 birthdays are valid in every target year because the calculation uses numerical components, not a birthday appointment.
The name tables cover Latin A–Z. Decomposable accents are removed; spaces, apostrophes, hyphens, and periods are separators. Other letters require a user-chosen Latin spelling. Our original number notes are symbolic study prompts, not scientific assessments or predictions. See the method comparison guide for worked differences. Practitioner sources document conventions, not evidence of predictive accuracy.