Who makes it
My name is Aiden Buis. I make short films about the figures on the tarot cards, in a series called Mundus. I also built the Imaginalis app.
What this site is
The cards here are the 1909 deck, scanned from an early printing. Beside them are Waite’s own guide to the deck and other old books about the cards. I look at the cards as pictures: what is in each one, where its images came from, and what the old books said about it.
There are no readings and no predictions here. Where Waite or another old book gives a fortune-telling meaning, I quote it as what that book said in its day.
How it is made
I write this site with the help of AI. A model drafts much of the text from the sources, and I check each page against them before it goes into search. Every claim lists where it comes from. The scans and the old texts are in the public domain, and the sources and licences page says where each one comes from.
Contact
If you find a mistake, please tell me. Write to hello@theimaginalis.com; corrections, sources I have missed and questions are all welcome.