Credits

The cards

The deck is The 1909 London Deck, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith and published in London in December 1909 by William Rider & Son. Smith was an artist and illustrator; the deck she made is the one almost every modern tarot deck is descended from, and it is the reason the numbered cards carry scenes rather than rows of symbols.

She was paid a flat fee for the work and was not credited on the box for most of a century. Naming her here is the least the page can do.

The 1909 artwork is in the public domain: in the United Kingdom and the EU since 1 January 2022, seventy years after Smith's death in 1951, and in the United States as a work published before 1929. The scans used here come from Wikimedia Commons.

This deck is not connected with, or endorsed by, any present-day tarot publisher.

Card meanings

The interpretations are written for this app. They draw on the traditional meanings the deck was made to carry, but the words are ours.