Know what you are looking at.
Keep reference knowledge, reading context and your own interpretation distinct.
From card to reading
- RWS card
- Historical sources
- TarotGaze Core
- Spread position
- Card relationships
- Reading synthesis
Reference first
The card, its orientation and its position stay visible. Reference mode presents available card material; Guided mode adds questions for your reflection.
Reading the spread together
Synthesis brings the reference meanings and spread positions together in one view, with questions to help you notice relationships. Your own interpretation remains separate from the card reference.
Current reference coverage
All 78 cards use the approved TarotGaze Core v1 upright and reversed records. Major Arcana, Wands and Cups have 50 extended dossiers with supplied contexts, visual anchors and historical notes. Swords and Pentacles remain intentionally Core-only and omit unavailable extended sections. Historical Waite material and Golden Dawn correspondences are labelled separately from modern TarotGaze editorial interpretation.
Artwork provenance
Original 1909 Roses & Lilies RWS imagery, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, is linked from Wikimedia Commons. Card pages link to their individual image records.
Explore the original deck’s image sources ↗Source classes
Waite / Pictorial Key — symbolic description
Historical RWS symbolism and imagery descriptions. Kept separate from TarotGaze editorial synthesis.
Waite / Pictorial Key — divinatory list
Historical divinatory material. Preserved as historical evidence rather than treated as universal modern meaning.
Golden Dawn / Book T
Tradition-scoped elemental, astrological, decan, Hebrew-letter and court correspondences.
TarotGaze Core v1
Modern normalized editorial interpretation used by card pages and the reading engine.
Your journal
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