A complete self-study system for the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, built on the Golden Dawn tradition. Study every card, test your knowledge across eight quiz modes, practise real readings with ten classic spreads, journal your reflections, track your achievements, and receive a daily card for meditation — all in one place, at your own pace.
✦ Why it works for beginners
You don't need to memorise 78 cards before you start reading. This app is built around active recall — the most effective learning method known. Each quiz shows you a card and asks you to recognise its meaning, rather than recite it from memory. Repetition builds intuition gradually.
The study grid lets you browse at your own pace before testing begins. Reference panels for the Tree of Life, astrology, and the Fool's Journey are always one click away. The practice readings let you experience the cards in context from your very first session — which is how real tarot knowledge forms. And the journal gives you a space to capture what you learn before it fades.
✦ The five sections
Home — Your daily landing page. Receive a Card of the Day drawn from the full deck, meditate on it with a built-in timer and chime, and explore rotating discovery panels that surface elemental pairs, numerological connections, and other insights each day.
Study — Browse all 78 cards with full meanings, keywords, and esoteric correspondences. Open reference panels for the Tree of Life, astrology, the Fool's Journey, and all spreads.
Quizzes — Eight quiz modes covering upright meanings, reversals, numerology, elements, astrology (including decans), Kabbalah, the Fool's Journey, and tarot spreads. Filter by suit or arcana. Keyboard shortcuts let you answer with A–D and advance with Space.
Practice Reading — Draw real spreads with face-down cards. Toggle reversals on or off. Flip each card, read intuitively, then reveal meanings and position-specific reflection prompts. Journal your reading directly from the spread with cards and title pre-filled.
Tools of the Craft — A curated selection of tarot decks, essential books, reading accessories, and crystals to complement your practice. These are Amazon affiliate links — purchasing through them helps support the ongoing development of The Fool's Table at no extra cost to you.
✦ Journal & Achievements
Tarot Journal — Record your readings and reflections with structured prompts, mood tracking, star ratings, tags, and card selection. Choose from Full Reading or Daily Card templates. Browse past entries, select individual entries to print, or print your entire journal. Moon phase is recorded automatically with each entry.
Achievements — Track your progress across the app. Achievements unlock for milestones like your first quiz question, viewing all 78 cards, reaching answer streaks, completing perfect rounds, trying every quiz mode, journalling regularly, and maintaining a seven-day study streak.
✦ Privacy & Contact
The Fool's Table is completely free, with no ads, no accounts, and no tracking. All your data stays on your device — nothing is ever collected or transmitted. You can read the full privacy policy from the link at the bottom of the app.
For questions, feedback, or suggestions, you can reach us at thefoolstablecontact@gmail.com — we'd love to hear from you.
✦ All attributions follow the Golden Dawn system as codified through Waite, Regardie, and the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition — elemental dignities, Kabbalistic paths, Hebrew letters, astrological correspondences, and decan rulerships.
Getting Started
A Suggested Path
✦ Work through at your own pace
There is no wrong way to learn the tarot. But if you want a structured approach, this path moves from the broad to the deep — building a foundation of imagery and meaning before layering in the esoteric systems.
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Get a Physical Deck
This app teaches you the cards — but nothing replaces the feeling of shuffling a real deck. A Rider-Waite-Smith deck is the ideal companion. Visit Tools of the Craft on the home page to find recommended decks, books, and accessories.
Home — Tools of the Craft
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Start with Your Daily Card
Open the Home tab each day. Sit with the Card of the Day — look at the image, notice what draws your eye, and try the meditation timer before reading any meanings. This daily practice builds intuitive familiarity faster than any study method.
Home
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Browse the Study Grid
Go to the Study tab. Scroll through all 78 cards — click any card to open its full detail with upright and reversed meanings, keywords, and esoteric correspondences. Don't try to memorise. Just look, read, and let the imagery sink in.
Study
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Start with Major Arcana — Upright Meanings
In the Quizzes tab, filter to Major Arcana and run the Upright quiz. 22 cards is a manageable first session. Revisit any cards you miss — they'll be listed at the end of each round.
Quizzes
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Do Your First Practice Reading
Go to Practice Reading and choose the Three-Card Spread. Flip each card, sit with the image, then reveal meanings and reflection prompts. You don't need to know the cards well — the app holds the knowledge for you. When you're done, tap Journal This Reading to capture your reflections.
Practice
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Expand Suit by Suit
Return to Quizzes and work through each suit — Cups, Wands, Swords, Pentacles — filtering as you go. Add reversed meanings once the uprights feel comfortable. Try toggling reversals on in your practice readings too.
Quizzes
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Explore the Deeper Layers
When the meanings feel solid, try the Numerology, Elements, and Astrology quizzes — then Kabbalah and the Fool's Journey. Open the reference panels in Study to go deeper into each system. The Spreads quiz will test your knowledge of spread structures and position meanings.
Quizzes
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Read with Larger Spreads & Journal
As your confidence grows, try the Celtic Cross, the Relationship Spread, or the Year Ahead. Journal each reading — over time, your journal becomes a record of your growth as a reader. Use the Look Back tab to revisit past entries and see how your understanding has deepened.
Practice
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Build a Daily Practice
The strongest readers are the consistent ones. Come back each day for your Daily Card, run a quick quiz round, and journal anything that stirs. The Achievements panel tracks your streaks and milestones — let it encourage you, not pressure you. The cards will start speaking before you've even looked up the meanings.
Home
Achievements
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Tarot Journal
Your readings & reflections
Entry Type
One Word — the essence of this reading
Mood Before the Reading
Cards in This Reading (tap to select)
How resonant was this reading?
Tags
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Breathe · Observe · Reflect
0Correct
0Streak
0Answered
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Card 0/0
Major Arcana
Upright Meanings
The Upright Reading
✦ Why it matters
Knowing the upright meanings is the foundation of all tarot reading. Each card carries a core energy — an archetype, a lesson, a force in the world. When a card appears upright it speaks directly, without shadow or reversal. Mastering these meanings lets you read fluently and intuitively.
✦ How to read it from the cards
The imagery on each card is a mnemonic system. Study the central figure, the colours, the symbols in the background. The Rider-Waite-Smith deck was designed so that every visual detail encodes the meaning — a figure's posture, the weather, the number of objects all carry information. Trust what you see.
✦ Tip: When you see a card, ask yourself — what is the overall feeling? Joyful, tense, still? That emotional tone is usually the upright meaning in miniature.
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Privacy Policy
✦ Summary
The Fool's Table is a fully client-side application. It does not collect, transmit, or store any personal data on external servers. Everything you do in this app stays on your device.
✦ Data Storage
This app uses your browser's local storage (localStorage) to save your preferences, quiz progress, journal entries, achievement data, and visit history. This data is stored entirely on your device and is never sent to any server, third party, or analytics service. You can clear this data at any time by clearing your browser's site data for this page.
✦ No Accounts or Sign-Ups
The Fool's Table does not require or offer user accounts, email addresses, passwords, or any form of registration. There is no login, no sign-up, and no personal information requested at any point.
✦ No Analytics or Tracking
This app does not use cookies, tracking pixels, analytics scripts, advertising networks, or any third-party monitoring tools. No usage data, browsing behaviour, or device information is collected or transmitted.
✦ No External Connections
Once loaded, this app operates entirely offline. It does not make network requests to external APIs, databases, or services. The only external resource loaded is the Google Fonts stylesheet used for typography, which is fetched by your browser on initial page load according to Google's own privacy policy.
✦ Affiliate Links
The Tools of the Craft page contains Amazon affiliate links to tarot decks, books, crystals, and reading accessories. If you purchase through these links, the developer receives a small commission at no extra cost to you. These links are clearly disclosed on that page. Clicking an affiliate link will take you to Amazon's website, which is governed by Amazon's own privacy policy. No purchase data, click data, or browsing behaviour from affiliate links is collected or stored by The Fool's Table.
✦ Card Images
Card images used in this app are sourced from publicly available reproductions of the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck, originally published in 1909. The original artwork by Pamela Colman Smith is in the public domain.
✦ Journal & Print Data
Your tarot journal entries are stored locally on your device. When you use the print feature, a temporary print-friendly page is generated within your browser — no data is uploaded or shared. You have full control over your entries, including the ability to delete individual entries or clear all data.
✦ Contact
For questions, feedback, or concerns about this privacy policy or the app itself, you can contact us at thefoolstablecontact@gmail.com. We do not collect or store email addresses — correspondence is handled privately and is never shared with third parties.
✦ Children's Privacy
This app is not directed at children under the age of 13. Since no personal data is collected from any user, no data is collected from children.
✦ Changes to this Policy
If this privacy policy is updated, the revised version will be included in the app. Since no personal data is collected, changes are unlikely to affect users in any material way.
✦ In short: your data stays on your device. Nothing is collected. Nothing is shared. Nothing is tracked. This app exists to help you learn the tarot — that is all it does.
Install The Fool's Table
Before you install, here's what you should know:
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No data is collected. This app runs entirely on your device. Nothing is sent to any server, ever.
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No accounts or tracking. No sign-ups, no cookies, no analytics. Your practice is completely private.
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Works offline. Once installed, the app works without an internet connection. Your journal, progress, and achievements are stored locally on your device.
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Free and ad-free. No advertisements, no subscriptions, no hidden costs. The Fool's Table is supported through optional affiliate links in Tools of the Craft.
Safari doesn't have a traditional install button — follow these steps to add The Fool's Table to your home screen:
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Tap the Share button
Look for the ⎋ icon in your Safari toolbar — it's usually at the bottom of the screen on iPhone, or at the top on iPad.
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Scroll down and tap "Add to Home Screen"
You may need to scroll down in the share menu to find it. It has a + icon next to it.
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Tap "Add"
The Fool's Table will appear on your home screen as a standalone app — with its own icon, full-screen experience, and offline access.
Get in Touch
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Tools of the Craft
The links below are Amazon affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support the ongoing development of The Fool's Table — keeping it free, ad-free, and continuously improving. Thank you for your support.
✦ Every purchase through these links directly supports The Fool's Table — helping keep the app free, ad-free, and growing. Thank you for learning with us.
Tools of the Craft
Crystals for Tarot
Many readers keep crystals nearby during readings — to clear the space, sharpen intuition, or ground the energy. Each stone carries a different quality. These are the six most widely used in tarot practice.