The Wicklune deck
A full tarot deck of 78 cards, drawn for Wicklune. Each card is a window onto the evening sky. Tap any card to read it, upright and reversed. Draw today's card
How the deck works
The 22 Major Arcana are the big themes: turning points, lessons, the chapters of a life. The 56 Minor Arcana are everyday life, in four suits of fourteen: Ace to Ten, then four court cards, Page, Knight, Queen and King.
Each suit belongs to an element. Wands are fire: drive, creativity, ambition. Cups are water: feelings and relationships. Swords are air: thoughts, truth and conflict. Pentacles are earth: money, work, the body and home.
The numbered cards from Two to Ten each rule ten degrees of the zodiac, and a planet colours each one, so the Two of Wands is Mars in Aries. This is the system of the Golden Dawn, which most modern tarot books use. The court cards mix two elements: a Queen of Wands is the water of fire, warmth with a flame inside.
A card that lands upside down is reversed. Wicklune reads it as the same energy, blocked, turned inward or overdone. You can switch reversals off on the Tarot page.
Further reading
- A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910): the structure of the modern 78-card deck.
- Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: the classic book on the meaning of every card.
- Joan Bunning, Learning the Tarot: a clear course for beginners, including reversals.
- Mary K. Greer, Tarot for Your Self: tarot as a tool for reflection.
- Benebell Wen, Holistic Tarot: a full reference, including the astrology of the cards.
Wicklune's cards are original drawings, and the card meanings are written by Wicklune. Tarot is a tool for reflection, not a prediction.