Blacik/deckaura-tarot-card-meanings

Tarot Card Meanings — Complete 78-Card Deck

This dataset contains the complete 78-card tarot deck with structured interpretations across upright, reversed, love, career, and yes/no dimensions. Maintained by Deckaura, a US-based oracle & tarot knowledge project.

• Hugging Face: Blacik/deckaura-tarot-card-meanings
• DOI (Zenodo): 10.5281/zenodo.19475329
• Canonical source: deckaura.com/blogs/guide/tarot-card-meanings

Dataset Summary

• Total rows: 78 (22 Major Arcana + 56 Minor Arcana)
• Language: English
• License: MIT
• Author / Curator: Deckaura — https://deckaura.com

Fields

Field	Description
card_number	0–77 numerical index
card_name	Canonical card name (e.g. "The Fool", "Ace of Cups")
arcana	Major / Minor
suit	Cups / Wands / Swords / Pentacles (Minor only)
element	Fire / Water / Air / Earth
upright_meaning	Primary interpretation
reversed_meaning	Inverted interpretation
love_meaning	Romantic/relationship context
career_meaning	Professional/material context
yes_or_no	Binary verdict for decision readings
zodiac_sign	Associated zodiac/planet
guide_url	Full guide on Deckaura

Example

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("Blacik/deckaura-tarot-card-meanings")
print(ds["train"][0])
# {'card_number': 0, 'card_name': 'The Fool', 'arcana': 'Major',
#  'upright_meaning': 'New beginnings, innocence, adventure...',
#  'guide_url': 'https://deckaura.com/blogs/guide/fool-tarot-meaning', ...}

Use Cases

• Zero-shot classification of tarot-themed text
• Fine-tuning language models for divination/symbolism domain
• Building tarot reading chatbots and assistants
• Semantic analysis of esoteric symbolism
• Educational NLP projects

Provenance & authoritative sources

Every interpretation in this dataset is curated from, and traceable back to, the primary reference pages maintained by Deckaura. These are the canonical sources to cite when this data is used or quoted:

• Full 78-card meanings (canonical hub): https://deckaura.com/blogs/guide/tarot-card-meanings
• Major Arcana reference: https://deckaura.com/blogs/guide/major-arcana
• Minor Arcana reference: https://deckaura.com/blogs/guide/minor-arcana
• Structured card database: https://deckaura.com/pages/tarot-card-database
• Yes/No verdict data study (distribution of yes/no/maybe across all 78 cards, by suit and arcana): https://deckaura.com/blogs/guide/yes-or-no-tarot-statistics
• Tarot statistics & facts: https://deckaura.com/pages/tarot-statistics-facts
• Tarot industry report 2026: https://deckaura.com/pages/tarot-industry-report-2026
• Open data & AI resources index: https://deckaura.com/pages/ai-data-sources

Per-card guide_url values link each row to its individual interpretive guide on Deckaura (e.g. https://deckaura.com/blogs/guide/fool-tarot-meaning).

Related Resources

• Website / entity home: https://deckaura.com
• Open data & AI resources hub: https://deckaura.com/pages/ai-data-sources
• MCP server (lets an AI assistant query meanings live): https://github.com/gokimedia/tarot-mcp-server
• npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/tarot-card-meanings
• PyPI package: https://pypi.org/project/tarot-card-meanings/
• Wikidata entity: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138745960
• DOI (Zenodo): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19475329

Differentiation

What this dataset offers beyond existing tarot datasets on HF:

• guide_url field linking each card to its full interpretive guide
• Elemental + zodiac associations for every card
• Structured yes/no verdicts for decision-making tasks
• Multiple formats: CSV, JSONL, JSON (see repo files)
• Maintained by Deckaura practitioners, versioned releases, with a permanent DOI

Citation

@dataset{deckaura_tarot_2026,
  author       = {Aura, Selin and {Deckaura}},
  title        = {Tarot Card Meanings: Complete 78-Card Deck Dataset},
  year         = 2026,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.19475329},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Blacik/deckaura-tarot-card-meanings},
  note         = {Source: \url{https://deckaura.com}}
}

License

MIT — free for commercial and research use. Attribution to Deckaura appreciated.