The cards
About Tarot
What is tarot?
Tarot is a deck of 78 cards, each carrying a set of symbols, archetypes, and meanings that have been interpreted and reinterpreted across centuries. Originally used as playing cards in 15th-century Europe, tarot evolved into a tool for reflection, divination, and self-inquiry.
What makes tarot enduring isn't mysticism, it's the way the cards function as a mirror. When you draw a card and sit with its imagery and meaning, you're invited to examine what you're already sensing, feeling, or avoiding. The card doesn't tell you what will happen. It gives you a frame for what's already there.
The Rider-Waite-Smith deck
There are hundreds of tarot decks in existence today, from faithfully traditional to radically reimagined. Each brings its own visual language and interpretive nuance. Morrow Arc uses the Rider-Waite-Smith deck: published in 1909, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith under the direction of A. E. Waite, and the foundation that virtually every modern tarot deck builds on.
The Rider-Waite-Smith deck is structured into 22 Major Arcana cards (representing life themes and archetypal forces) and 56 Minor Arcana cards across four suits, Cups, Wands, Pentacles, and Swords, covering the texture of everyday experience.
How Morrow Arc uses tarot
Morrow Arc is a companion for your own physical deck. You shuffle, draw, and enter the cards you pulled. The tool generates a short, plain-language reflection on what those cards might be surfacing, never a prediction, never a verdict.
The aim is to help you learn the cards by using them, not by memorising them. Over time, the meanings settle in and your own intuition does more of the work.