Rider-Waite catalog
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Browse the Rider-Waite deck used in Taroter. Read upright and reversed meanings, short notes, and tags for every Major and Minor Arcana card.
Meanings here are study notes for the deck, not predictions. Open any card for upright and reversed readings. Live sessions are on the home page.
22 of 78 cards
Major Arcana
The FoolMajor 0 · ar00The Fool is the open beginning of the Major Arcana: innocence, potential, and the willingness to step into a path before it is fully mapped.
The MagicianMajor 1 · ar01The Magician is conscious will put to work: skill, focus, and the power to turn intention into action.
The High PriestessMajor 2 · ar02The High Priestess is inner knowing, hidden knowledge, and the quiet side of wisdom that does not rush to speak.
The EmpressMajor 3 · ar03The Empress is growth, care, and creative abundance: the living world tended into form.
The EmperorMajor 4 · ar04The Emperor is structure, authority, and stable order: the frame that holds chaos in check.
The HierophantMajor 5 · ar05The Hierophant is shared teaching, tradition, and the formal paths by which belief and knowledge are passed on.
The LoversMajor 6 · ar06The Lovers is union and choice: love, partnership, and the alignment of desire with what you truly value.
The ChariotMajor 7 · ar07The Chariot is directed will and hard-won progress: victory through discipline and control of opposing forces.
StrengthMajor 8 · ar08Strength is courage with gentleness: mastery of instinct through patience rather than force.
The HermitMajor 9 · ar09The Hermit is deliberate solitude and inner guidance: withdrawal that clarifies rather than escapes.
Wheel of FortuneMajor 10 · ar10Wheel of Fortune is the turning of cycles: change of luck, timing, and forces larger than one plan.
JusticeMajor 11 · ar11Justice is fairness, truth, and cause and effect made visible: the measure of what is owed.
The Hanged ManMajor 12 · ar12The Hanged Man is voluntary pause and inverted sight: surrender that buys a new way of seeing.
DeathMajor 13 · ar13Death is necessary ending and deep change: what cannot continue is cleared so something else can begin.
TemperanceMajor 14 · ar14Temperance is balance and blending: patience that mixes opposites into a workable middle.
The DevilMajor 15 · ar15The Devil is bondage and appetite: the shadow ties of fear, habit, and material obsession that feel inescapable.
The TowerMajor 16 · ar16The Tower is sudden upheaval and revealed truth: a false structure breaks so reality can enter.
The StarMajor 17 · ar17The Star is quiet hope and replenishment: healing inspiration after crisis, without forced cheer.
The MoonMajor 18 · ar18The Moon is uncertainty and the deep mind: dreams, fear, and perception that is only half clear.
The SunMajor 19 · ar19The Sun is clarity, vitality, and open success: warmth you can feel without decoding a riddle.
JudgementMajor 20 · ar20Judgement is awakening and reckoning: a call to rise into a life that matches what you now know.
The WorldMajor 21 · ar21The World is completion and integration: a cycle fulfilled, with skill and experience belonging together.