Tarot Reading — 78-card deck, classic spreads
Shuffles a full 78-card deck with the browser’s CSPRNG and lays a one-card, three-card, Celtic Cross, horseshoe or two-person spread, each position labelled with what it traditionally answers. Meanings are quoted from Waite’s 1911 handbook; the card of the day is seeded from your name and the date, so it does not change when you reload.
A full 78-card deck — 22 trumps and four suits of fourteen — shuffled with the browser’s cryptographic random source and laid out in the classic spreads. The card meanings are not ours: they are A. E. Waite’s own sentences from The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), which is out of copyright, and the Celtic Cross position names are his too. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and the page states which half of what you are reading is arithmetic and which half is a hundred-year-old book.
This is entertainment. The shuffle is real randomness and the meanings are quoted from a 1911 book; neither of those makes a card a statement about your life. Tarot has no predictive basis.
Card of the day
One card, chosen by hashing your name and today’s date. It does not change when you reload, it is the same on every device, and it becomes a different card at midnight. Nothing else goes into it.
Seed: |2026-11-10 — this exact string is all that decides the card.
The reading
The DevilReversed
Evil fatality, weakness, pettiness, blindness.
Meanings: quoted from Waite (1911)
Drawn here rather than scanned. Smith’s originals carry detail these five-shape drawings do not.
Sources
- A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (London: William Rider & Son, 1911) — divinatory meanings, and the Celtic Cross positions, quoted from Part III. Public domain.
- The pictures on the cards are our own SVG drawings of Waite’s descriptions, not reproductions of Pamela Colman Smith’s 1909 illustrations. Scans of those are at the Internet Archive.
- The shuffle is Fisher–Yates over crypto.getRandomValues; the card of the day is splitmix32 seeded from (name, date).
- Divinatory meanings quoted from A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), Part III. Public domain.
How to use it
Pick the card of the day, or a spread
They are different kinds of thing. The card of the day is a function of your name and the date — reload as often as you like, it is the same card until midnight. A spread is a genuine random draw, and drawing again gives a different reading.
Decide about reversals before you draw
Waite prints a reversed meaning for 77 of the 78 cards, so turning reversals off throws away half the source. Turning them on gives each card its own fair coin. The switch does not change which cards come up — only which way round they lie.
Read the position before the card
A spread works because the positions are fixed before the cards are turned. Each one is listed with the question it traditionally answers — in the Celtic Cross, in Waite’s own words: this covers him, this crosses him, this crowns him.
Check the seed line if you doubt it
The daily card prints the exact string it hashed — name|YYYY-MM-DD. Change one character and you get a different card; put it back and the old card returns. That is the whole of the mechanism, and you can test it in ten seconds.
Common questions
Does this predict anything?
No. The shuffle is real randomness and the meanings are a real quotation from a real book, and neither of those makes a card a statement about your life. Tarot has no predictive basis; this page is for fun and says so above every reading.
Why don’t the cards look like the deck I know?
Because they are our drawings, not scans. Pamela Colman Smith’s 1909 illustrations are themselves out of copyright — she died in 1951 and the deck was published before 1930 — but nearly every RWS image in circulation is from the 1971 re-coloured edition, which carries its own claim, and we cannot verify the provenance of seventy-eight raster files well enough to stand behind them. Ours are SVG: a few shapes per card, no download, and they follow the site’s light and dark themes.
Is the shuffle actually random?
Fisher–Yates back to front over crypto.getRandomValues, with the modulo bias rejected rather than ignored. The test suite runs tens of thousands of draws and checks the result against the uniform distribution with a chi-square, because a biased shuffle looks perfectly shuffled to the eye.
Why does the Two of Cups have no reversed meaning?
Because Waite does not give one. The page says so rather than inventing a sentence to fill the gap — which is the same reason the English text reads like 1911 instead of like a modern app.
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